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Apr 2005, 352 pages
Paperback:
Apr 2006, 528 pages
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Harlan Coben was born in Newark, New Jersey. After graduating
from Amherst College as a political science major, he
worked in the travel industry. He has won each of the
three big mystery awards - the Edgar, the Agatha, and the Shamus. He now lives in New
Jersey with his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben MD, medical
director of Covenant House in Newark, and their four
children.
He is the author of 8 mystery/thrillers about sports
agent Myron Bolitar, and a number of standalone novels:
Myron Bolitar Thrillers
Deal Breakerer (1995)
Drop Shot (1996)
Fade Away (1996)
Back Spin (1997)
One False Move (1998)
The Final Detail (1999)
Darkest Fear (2000)
Promise Me (2006)
Novels:
Play Dead (1990)
Miracle Cure (1991)
Tell No One (2001)
Gone For Good (2002)
No Second Chance (2003)
Just One Look (2004)
The Innocent (2005)
Coben says that he wrote Play Dead (romantic
suspense) and Miracle Cure (a medical thriller)
in his early to mid-twenties. They are currently out of
print but he has the rights to them and might re-release
them one day.
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