The Shots team were
delighted to meet up with Harlan Coben during
Bouchercon 2016, held in New
Orleans. The event was attended by close to 2,000 advocates of the Crime,
Mystery and Thriller Genre and Chaired by the Bestselling writer Heather
Graham, and Connie Perry.
Harlan was one of the guests
of Honour for this year’s World Crime and Mystery Convention, and lead the
Mardi Gras style Opening Ceremonies, which we recorded below.
One of the many highlights
of the event was Michael
Connelly Interview with Harlan
Coben, which was standing room only and which we present for Shots Readers
below in four segments
Harlan Coben interviewed by
Michael Connelly Part I
Harlan Coben interviewed by
Michael Connelly Part 2
Harlan Coben interviewed by
Michael Connelly Part 3
Harlan Coben interviewed by
Michael Connelly Part 4
Harlan
Coben is a firm favourite writer of many Shots
Readers, so we were delighted to get an early read of his latest Myron Bolitar
Novel “Home”, after a five year gap and out in Hardcover.
Sometimes we
forget what a tremendous thriller
writer Harlan Coben is; as we take it as read, that his annual
releases will hit the NY Times and London Times Top Ten. So it was a delight to
sample his latest offering, and one featuring his investigator Myron Bolitar,
and Windsor Horne Lockwood, III [aka "Win"] – for this
is one of the most riveting and thought provoking thrillers of 2016.
As ever, Coben comes up with a premise that is as intriguing as it is
provocative to launch this tale. Two young boys from wealthy families vanish,
in what appears as an abduction-ransom that went horribly wrong. With quiet
desperation, the families have waited to learn what happened to their two boys;
that is, until Myron Bolitar is contacted by Win, who believes to have tracked
one of the boys, Patrick Moore in London. The other of the missing boys, Rhys
Baldwin is connected to Win, as he is a child of
one of Win’s cousins, Brooke. However the discovery of Patrick does not shed
light on the mystery of their disappearance, or the whereabouts of Rhys,
instead it raises more questions as to what actually happened a decade back.
Read the full Shots
Review Here
And Harlan’s standalone
thriller Fool Me Once is out in Paperback
The master of the domestic thriller returns, with a
startling novel that evokes memories of his breakout novel ‘Tell
No One’ with a narrative that is as elegant as it is engaging. The theme of War
on the Fabric of Family relationships is explored, as if torn from the
headlines that detail our military operations in the Middle-East; and like
PTSD, what is revealed is far from pretty.
We follow the tragic
life of Maya Stern, retired US
Military helicopter pilot and her family; though you have to follow
the plot closely for the clues to the mystery are hidden in plain view. Stern,
coupled with the demons of her past [from her military service] is now
transformed into what we term Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder [PTSD].
With
her infant daughter Lily, Maya has to cope with her husband Joe’s funeral.
Tragedy seems striated into Maya’s life as not only has she to cope with the
senseless killing of Joe, but earlier her Sister Claire was also murdered in
what appeared as a home invasion gone awry, and there's the mystery surrounding
her husband Joe's late brother and the wealthy and powerful family Maya married
into.
So
to support herself and daughter she works as a Flight-Instructor, and has a
Nanny-Cam, to keep watch on Lily and the child-minder while she’s working; but
when she sees what appears as her dead husband on the video-feed from the
Camera, she starts to question her sanity, her reality, and that of her family.
Maya
soon becomes paranoid and she trusts no one, especially her late Husband’s
wealthy family, nor her late Sister’s husband, nor the police, nor Lily’s
Nanny, and then not even herself.
Read the full Shots Review Here
Shots have discounted Hardcover
copies of Harlan’s HOME available from our bookstore HERE
and Paperback copies of FOOL ME ONCE available HERE
Shots Magazine would like to
thank Selina
Walker of Penguin Random House UK and Harlan Coben for help with this
feature and the early read of “Home”.
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