Caught

Determined to make career-bolstering headline news, reporter Wendy Tynes sets up a live feed sting designed to bust a “sexual offender” in his tracks. Her prey, Dan Mercer, is linked to the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl. That night, the lives of Wendy, Dan, and three families in a small New Jersey town were suddenly turned upside down and forever scarred in unimaginable ways.

True to Harlan Coben’s suspenseful thrillers, this book starts with a bang, challenging the reader to imagine what if?

What if you were in Dan’s shoes? What about Wendy’s? Would you make the choices they did that fateful night that cost them so much, including the loss of life?

This gripping suspense is peppered with twists and turns, so there is no shortage of action. What I love most is the shock value—reminding us how vulnerable we are to misunderstandings, fake news, and the drive to feel validated online. It skitters the edges of these troublesome truths and makes you rethink what you post, what you read, what you see, and what you know. Coben’s a master storyteller, skilled in pulling the reader into every line of this blood-pumping edge-of-your-seat tale.

It begs the question: Fiction or fact?

Source: Purchased

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