The plot involves setting up victims for extortion of large sums of money and than murdering them via the use of an online dating site. Kat Donovan is a New York City police officer. She is the third in a line after both her grandfather and father. After a love affair that went sour 18 years earlier, she has not been able to connect romantically with another man that would appeal to her for marriage.
A good friend of hers convinces her to go onto a dating website. By chance she comes across the photo and data of her former boyfriend and attempts to resurrect the affair. An attempt to recontact her former lover coupled with the plea of a young boy to help find his mother who he believes was kidnapped while going away for a weekend with a man she met on the same website Kat is on pulls Kat into a plot involving large scale kidnapping and murder for money.
Coben is a master at pulling together many seemingly unrelated events in a logical and fascinating way. Missing You is no exception and becomes his usual all nighter. Character development of all principal protagonists is excellent and the reader is left with complete understanding of motivations – both good and evil. Personal flaws are not hidden but utilized real and acting as they would in these situations in real life. Another Coben winner and leaving the reader anxiously awaiting his next book.
4/14 Paul Lane
MISSING YOU by Harlan Coben. Dutton Adult; First Edition edition (March 18, 2014). ISBN 978-0525953494. 400p.
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