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Book Review of Play Dead

Play Dead
Play Dead
Author: Harlan Coben
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Paperback
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This was Coben's first novel written, though published after some others. All I can say is that if he gets better than this, the later mystery/thrillers are going to cause heart attacks!
From back cover:
Theirs was a marriage made in tabloid heaven, but no sooner had supermodel Laura Ayers and Celtics star David Baskin said "I do" than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia's Great Barrier Reed, David went out for a swim-and never returned.
Now widowed and grieving, Laura's search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years--while on the court at the Boston Garden, a rookie phenom makes his spectacular debut...