Just One Look by
Harlan Coben
pbk out November 04
(Orion)
at £6.99
When Grace Lawson picks up a batch of holiday snapshots from the Photomat there is
one picture that she doesn't recognise. A simple error perhaps? But as Grace looks
closer she sees one of the people in the group is familiar - it's her husband, Jack, in
his college student days, long before she met him. Grace goes back to the print shop
but the assistant has clocked off and his colleague can't explain the mix-up.
Perplexed, Grace shows Jack the snapshot and within hours he has gone; leaving
without any farewell and taking the photo with him. He doesn't know that Grace, on
a whim, has made a digital copy of the print. She reports Jack missing but the police
seem to think she is being hysterical. So Grace, very worried for her husband, sets
out to investigate the mystery herself.
Coben has established himself as a past master of the corkscrew thriller - with enough
twists and turns in each tale to make the reader dizzy. Just One Look delivers that
switchback ride. It's a breathless quest with a brave, tenacious and congenial central
character whose journey forces her to face unpalatable truths as her discoveries
rewrite the past. Keep 'em coming.
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder)
Just One Look by
Harlan Coben
