The Woods
by Harlan Coben
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Author: Harlan CobenEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN: 0451221958
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Signet
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- ISBN13: 9780451221957
- Condition: New
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Book Review: A beach read in The Woods
Summary: 5 Stars
Recently, I watched a French adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel Tell No One. It was a nice movie and a reminder of one of the mysteries of cinema: why is it that a writer like Coben - who's written a string of excellent, popular and readily filmable books - has so few adaptations, while lesser authors have more success. I can provide no answers here, but I can at least provide the assurance that his 2007 novel The Woods is another gem.
The hero of The Woods is Paul Copeland, a prosecutor involved in a high profile case: a pair of wealthy fraternity brothers are accused of the rape of a stripper. The father of one of the defendants is willing to do anything - and ruin anyone - to get his son off the hook, and Copeland is right in the father's gunsights.
This case, however, is almost a distraction compared to a more serious issue. A man has been found dead with information about Copeland on him. Copeland is briefly a suspect, but what really disturbs him is the identity of the victim, a man thought dead for two decades, the victim of a serial killer who also murdered Copeland's sister at a summer camp. Since her body was never found (it was supposedly buried in the woods referred to by the title), now Copeland has to wonder if she might still be alive somewhere.
Copeland also still has to deal with his guilt for his indirect role in her seeming murder: he was supposed to be on alert at the camp, but was instead having sex with the camp's owner's daughter. Trying to solve this mystery will bring Copeland back in touch with her and unearth a lot of hidden secrets that can cause more harm than good.
If there is a flaw with The Woods, it's that Coben is revisiting some plot elements from previous books, such as the idea of an apparently dead person possibly returning into the hero's life (as in Tell No One). Of course, are any plots completely original? Even with the revisited elements, this is still a distinctly different story, and as always with Coben, The Woods is a thrilling page-turner that will please both his existing fans and anyone new to his writing.
Summary of The Woods
Twenty years ago at summer camp, Paul Copeland's sister died in the woods, the alleged victim of a serial killer. Her body was never found. Now, Paul is the prosecutor for Essex County, New Jersey, immersed in one of the biggest cases of his career-a case that will change everything he believes about the past...and the truth.
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