Harlan Coben Goes Fishing for Red Herrings and Catfish: "Missing You"

Missing You - Harlan Coben

Kat Donovan is third-generation NYPD, having followed in the footsteps (and bar stool) of her father and her father's father. Nearing forty, Kat's still single and not looking very hard. When her best friend gives her a free membership at an on-line dating service, Kat’s underwhelmed at first; underwhelmed by the long roster of shallow, needy men with digital versions of bad singles-bar come-ons. But that’s before she stumbles over Jeff’s profile…

Eighteen years ago Kat’s life had changed forever the moment her father’s partner appeared at her door: Dad was dead, murdered. Weeks later, her fiancé had dumped her and left, never to be seen again – until tonight, when his all-too familiar face appears on her laptop screen as she scrolls through JustMyType.com profiles. After one too many shots of Jack, she reaches out to him…

Promise Me You'll Leave Us Alone: Harlan Coben's "Six Years"

Every romance novel on the face of the earth would have you believe that there is “one true love” out there somewhere, a fated meeting just waiting for two pairs of eyes to lock together across a crowded room. It didn’t quite happen that way for Jake Fisher – Natalie Avery was wearing sunglasses the first time he laid eyes on her – but it was damned close. The two spent a couple of delirious months together at adjacent artistic retreats in upstate Vermont, long enough for Jake to decide Natalie was the fabled “one.” And then she dumped him – dumped him hard one day and sent him an invitation to her wedding the next. When the ceremony was concluded, she made Jake promise that he would never, ever contact her and her new husband.