![]() His frantic search to find out if she lives dovetails with the equally frenzied efforts of cops to pin Elizabeth's murder on Beck, as well as the antic moves of a mysterious billionaire-an old friend of the Beck family-and his two hired thugs to frame Beck for that murder. Or is she? For immediately after two bodies eight years old are uncovered on the Beck land, Beck receives a series of e-mails apparently from Elizabeth. Cut to eight years later: Beck is a young physician working with ghetto kids in Manhattan, and Elizabeth, we learn, is dead, victim of a serial killer known as KillRoy. David Beck and Elizabeth Parker, just-married childhood sweethearts, are vacationing at the Beck family retreat when Beck is knocked unconscious and Elizabeth is kidnapped. ![]() This thriller, Coben's first non-Bolitar novel, is a breezy enough read, but it's not up to snuff. ![]() He doesn't quite kick his reputation aside in the process. ![]() Every writer likes to stretch his legs, and here Coben, author of seven acclaimed Myron Bolitar mysteries ( Darkest Fear, etc.), stretches his. ![]()
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