英文版
Just One Look 豆瓣
作者: Harlan Coben Signet 2005 - 4
When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn't belong-a photo from at least 20 years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it, he disappears that night, taking the photo with him. Now, to save her family from a fierce, silent killer who will stop at nothing to get the photo, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past.
2022年4月27日 已读
2022.03.11 ~ 2022.04.26
哇哦,Eric Wu的这个下场我可真喜欢!这一本不算很浓墨重彩,主要围绕Grace展开,而Grace头顶主角光环又并非行动派,所以读者根本不用担心Grace的安危,导致全书的紧张性几乎全靠Wu这个变态来维持……不过最后的几波反转还算有点意思吧。
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No Second Chance 豆瓣
作者: Harlan Coben Orion 2003 - 5
'When the first bullet hit my chest, I thought of my daughter.' Dr Marc Seidman is living in a classic American suburb in New Jersey with his new wife, Monica, and their baby daughter, Tara, when the shocking attack occurs. Marc is left barely clinging to life. When he wakes up at the hospital, he learns that Monica is dead - and that their daughter Tara is missing from her crib. For two weeks there is no word. Then a ransom demand is made for Tara's return. But Marc makes a mistake. Something goes terribly wrong during the money drop. The ransom money vanishes. The kidnappers get away. Crushed, Marc waits by the phone for another call. Days turn to weeks as Marc remembers the ransom note's ominous warning: THERE WILL BE NO SECOND CHANCE. The police, believing that Tara is probably dead, start to move on. Eighteen agonizing months pass with no word and no new clues. And then, when Marc has just about given up all hope of seeing his daughter again, he gets a package with a chilling note attached: WANT A SECOND CHANCE? And inside the package the kidnapper provides proof that Tara is still alive...
2022年2月24日 已读
2022.02.14 ~ 2022.02.24
这一本其实故事线挺明确的,但零散的情节和人物很多,阅读体验不是很好。而且那对疯鸳鸯如此投入我实在理解不能!不过Lenny这个人物塑造得不错,哈兰·科本蛮会写友情的。
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Giants' Star 豆瓣
作者: James P. Hogan Grafton 1989 - 8
2021年6月25日 已读
2021.06.10 ~ 2021.06.25
这个系列读后只能“哇呜”。第三部的可读性略逊于前两部,但还算是一个圆满的句号。这套书有个很大的影响,就是将《三体》系列祛魅了。
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2021年6月10日 已读
The Gentle Giants of Ganymede
2021.05.31 ~ 2021.06.10
读了这一本,我忽然理解了对《三体》的一些批评。黑暗森林法则乍看似乎逻辑严密,但它的立足点其实是默认所有智慧生物都和地球人思路相通。温柔的Ganymean给出了另一种进化可能:食肉、嗜血、残暴的人类才是智慧生成道路上的意外。
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Inherit the Stars 豆瓣
作者: James P. Hogan Del Rey 1979 - 11
The man on the moon was dead. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair and fairly long nostrils. His skeletal body was found clad in a bright red spacesuit, hidden in a rocky grave. They didn't know who he was, how he got there, or what had killed him. All they knew was that his corpse was 50,000 years old; and that meant that this man had somehow lived long before he ever could have existed!
"Pure science fiction... Arthur Clarke move over!" - Isaac Asimov
"'Hard science' fiction with a lovely vengeance, but done so well that almost no scientific background is needed to understand and enjoy it... Highly recommended." - Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"Intellectual action portrayed as excitingly as any space war-a truly absorbing read, and a reminder that learning is one of the greatest human adventures." - Publishers Weekly
2021年5月31日 已读
2021.05.18 ~ 2021.05.31
哇哦!后半部分一章一反转真是太过瘾了!读完这本书,我甚至有些虚实难辨,觉得人类的起源可能真的是书里写的那样……
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Tell No One 豆瓣
作者: Harlan Coben RANDOM HOUSE USA
2021年5月14日 已读
2021.05.06 ~ 2021.05.14
故事还可以,至少能吸引人一路读下去,虽然几个悬念都比较好猜。Shauna和Linda这一对有些浪费,算是一个遗憾吧。另外就是……能不能别再第一人称、第三人称混杂着用啊!
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Gone for Good 豆瓣
作者: Harlan Coben Dell 2003 - 3
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"The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies." So says Will Klein, whose search for his missing and allegedly murderous brother, Ken, leaves him doubting the actions of everybody he's ever loved.
Eleven years ago, Ken fled his family's suburban New Jersey neighborhood after Will's ex-girlfriend, Julie Miller, was raped and strangled. The Kleins eventually convinced themselves that Ken perished on the lam. But as Will discovers, the facts are not so simple. On her deathbed, his mother tells him that Ken is still alive. Then Will's girlfriend and "soul mate" disappears too, only to have her fingerprints turn up at a New Mexico homicide scene. How are these tragedies connected? And what's their relationship to the recent appearance of a contract killer known as the Ghost? With help from an abused ex-hooker, a former white supremacist turned yoga guru, and Julie's younger sister, Will finds himself in a tightly twisted plot that turns on double identities and misplaced trust and that forces him to dig for the courage he was always sure he lacked.
Although the premise sounds much like that of Harlan Coben's last book, the acclaimed Tell No One, and the books' ingenuous protagonists are nearly interchangeable, Gone for Good quickly establishes its separate but equally suspenseful identity. This is a tale of manifold deceptions guaranteed to show its readers up as suckers, and to make them love every moment of the experience. --J. Kingston Pierce --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
"We never forget our first love. Mine ended up being murdered." Newcomers and fans alike will know they're deep in Coben country with the author's ninth book, in which a counselor of runaways with his own history of broken hearts and death finds himself caught in a web of lost identities, forgotten nemeses and smoldering grudges. Will Klein was a nice Jewish boy from a nice Jersey suburb until his ex-girlfriend was found strangled next door and his brother became an international fugitive. Eleven years later, as his mother succumbs to cancer, Will gets the deathbed confession that his brother, Ken, is alive; around the same time, his girlfriend, Sheila (herself a runaway with a "murky past"), disappears and a neighborhood psycho called the Ghost resurfaces. Will is yanked into an FBI investigation via his friend Squares (a yogi whose forehead tattoo carries multiple meanings), which jumbles up the aforementioned cast of characters with another mystery occurring in the Midwest. True to form, Coben keeps the plot twists coming fast and furious, and readers will give up trying to guess the outcome quite early on; yet the book's entertainment value lies less in its plot than its characters. From the New York streetwalker Raquel ("Many transvestites are beautiful. Raquel was not. He was black, six-six, and comfortably on the north side of three hundred pounds") to Belmont, Neb.'s Sheriff Bertha Farrow ("Murder scenes were bad, but for overall vomit-inducing, bone-crunching, head-splitting, blood-splattering grossness, it was hard to beat the metal-against-flesh effect of an old-fashioned automobile accident"), this title delivers.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
2021年5月6日 已读
2021.04.22 ~ 2021.05.05
这一本的情节还是蛮精彩的,巴黎铁塔反转又反转,但我真的不太习惯这种第一人称和第三人称夹花着来的叙事……
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The Cutting Edge 豆瓣
作者: Jeffery Deaver Grand Central Publishing 2018 - 4
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs return to New York City to confront a killer terrorizing couples at their happiest-and most vulnerable.
In the early hours of a quiet, weekend morning in Manhattan’s Diamond District, a brutal triple murder shocks the city. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs quickly take the case. Curiously, the killer has left behind a half-million dollars’ worth of gems at the murder scene, a jewelry store on 47th street. As more crimes follow, it becomes clear that the killer’s target is not gems, but engaged couples themselves.
The Promisor vows to take the lives of men and women during their most precious moments-midway through the purchase of an engagement ring, after a meeting with a wedding planner, trying on the perfect gown for a day that will never come. The Promisor arrives silently, armed with knife or gun, and a time of bliss is transformed, in an instant, to one of horror.
Soon the Promiser makes a dangerous mistake: leaving behind an innocent witness, Vimal Lahori, a talented young diamond cutter, who can help Rhyme and Sachs blow the lid off the case. They must track down Vimal before the killer can correct his fatal error. Then disaster strikes, threatening to tear apart the very fabric of the city-and providing the perfect cover for the killer to slip through the cracks.
2021年4月23日 已读
2021.04.03 ~ 2021.04.22
在林肯系列里属于不怎么好看的,没能营造出紧张感,看完以后给人留下最深印象的,反倒是小证人他爹……
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Darkest Fear 豆瓣
作者: Coben, Harlan 2009 - 5
Life isn't going well for Myron Bolitar. His business is struggling, and his father, recently recovered from a heart attack, is facing his own mortality - and forcing Myron to face it too. Then comes another surprise. Emily Downing, Myron's college sweetheart, reappears in his life with devastating news: her thirteen-year-old son Jeremy is gravely ill and can be saved only by a bone-marrow transplant - from a donor who has vanished without trace. Before Myron can absorb this revelation, Emily hits him with an even bigger shocker: Jeremy is Myron's son, conceived the night before Emily's wedding to another man. Staggered by the news, Myron plunges into a search for the missing donor. But for Myron, finding the only person who can save the boy's life means cracking open a mystery as dark as it is heartbreaking - a mystery that involves a broken family, a brutal kidnapping spree, and a cat-and-mouse game between an ambitious reporter and the FBI.
2021年3月25日 已读
2021.03.17 ~ 2021.03.24
Myron的故事暂告一段落。这一本情节很“纷繁”,显得有些杂乱。Myron和Emily那档子事让我都开始同情Greg了。
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The Final Detail (Myron Bolitar) 豆瓣
作者: Harlan Coben Island Books 2000 - 2
His heart is broken. His partner is in jail. And someone is trying to kill him.
Then Myron Bolitar gets some really bad news....
For sports agent Myron Bolitar, it seemed like the perfect vacation. A tropical beach. A warm breeze. A little uncomplicated passion with a woman he barely knows. Myron is almost in heaven when his friend Win shows up with a message that blasts him back to reality: Esperanza is in trouble. It's time to come home.
Now Myron is back in New York, determined to help Esperanza, his best friend and partner, who's been accused of killing one of their clients. But Esperanza isn't talking. Neither is her lawyer. And to prove his friend's innocence, Myron must trace the rise and fall of the victim, a pitcher who had been making a comeback with the Yankees. Suddenly the investigation is leading Myron to places he'd rather not go: into a family's agony, through the city's sexual underground, and to a moment buried on the dark side of a brilliant sports career.... Twelve years ago a young agent named Bolitar tried to help an up-and-coming athlete. It was a fatal mistake—and now Myron will have to pay the price....
One False Move (Myron Bolitar Mysteries) 豆瓣
作者: Harlan Coben Dell 1999 - 5
She's smart, beautiful, and she doesn't need a man to look after her. But sports agent Myron Bolitar has come into her life—big time. Now Myron's next move may be his last—
Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he's about to find out if he's man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life.
Twenty years before, Brenda's mother deserted her. And just as Brenda is making it to the top of the women's pro basketball world, her father disappears too. A big-time New York sports agent with a foundering love life, Myron has a professional interest in Brenda. Then a personal one. But between them isn't just the difference in their backgrounds or the color of their skin. Between them is a chasm of corruption and lies, a vicious young mafioso on the make, and one secret that some people are dying to keep—and others are killing to protect....
Back Spin (Myron Bolitar Mysteries) 豆瓣
作者: Harlan Coben Dell 1997 - 7
Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters' motel--and back in time to a U.S. Open twenty-three years ago, when Jack Coldren should have won, but didn't. Suddenly Myron finds him self surrounded by blue bloods, criminals, and liars. And as one family's darkest secrets explode into murder, Myron finds out just how rough this game can get.
In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction--Myron Bolitar--a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.
2021年2月24日 已读
2021.02.02 ~ 2021.02.24
哇哦,这一本给了我很大的惊喜。“绑架”并不是很吸引我的题材,但本书案情一波三折且环环相扣,意料之外又情理之中,出场人物多而不乱,尤其是引入了Win的家庭……哇哦!
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Fade Away (Myron Bolitar Mysteries (Paperback)) 豆瓣
作者: Harlan Coben Dell 1996 - 11
The home was top-notch New Jersey suburban.  The living room was Martha Stewart.  The basement was Legos--and blood.  For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he'd once competed against was bringing back memories--of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved.  Now, among the stars, the wanna-bes, the gamblers and groupies, Myron is unraveling the strange, violent life of a sports hero gone wrong, and coming face-to-face with a past he can't relive, and a present he may not survive.
In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction--Myron Bolitar--a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.
2021年2月3日 已读
2021.01.22 ~ 2021.02.02
这一部的推理也太儿戏了吧!不过话说回来,虽然案子不怎样,行文也罗里吧嗦得可以,但对作为运动家的Myron的心理刻画还是相当不错的。
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Drop Shot 豆瓣
作者: Harlan Coben Dell 1996 - 2
Valerie Simpson is a young female tennis star with a troubled past who's now on the verge of a comeback and wants Myron as her agent. Myron, who's also got the hottest young male tennis star, Duane Richwood, primed to take his first grand slam tournament, couldn't be happier. That is, until Valerie is murdered in broad daylight at the U.S. Open and Myron's number one client becomes the number one suspect.
Clearing Duane's name should be easy enough. Duane was playing in a match at the time of Valerie's death. But why is his phone number in Valerie's black book when he claims only to have known her in passing? Why was she calling him from a phone booth on the street? The police stop caring once they pin the murder on a man known for having stalked Valerie and seen talking to her moments before the murder. But Myron isn't satisfied. It seems too clean for him.
Myron pries a bit and finds himself prying open the past where six years before, Valerie's fiancee, the son of a senator, was brutally murdered by a juvenile delinquent and a straight-A student was subsequently gunned down on the street in retaliation, his death squandered in bureaucratic files. And everyone from the Senator to the mob want Myron to stop digging.
The truth beneath the truth is not only dangerous, it's deadly. And Myron may be the next victim.
In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction—Myron Bolitar—a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.
Deal Breaker 豆瓣
作者: Coben, Harlan 2009 - 6
Investigator and sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Suddenly Myron is plunged into a baffling mystery of sex and blackmail. Trying to unravel the truth about a family's tragedy, a woman's secret and a man's lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his business - where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.
2021年1月12日 已读
2020.12.08 ~ 2020.12.22
作为科本的第三部小说,与处女作相比有了长足的进步,冗长的描写消失了,场景切换的节奏明显加快,情节也更为抓人。
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Miracle Cure 豆瓣
作者: Coben, Harlan 2011 - 9
A Harlan Coben Classic-Now Back in Print
In a clinic on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well. And one by one, they're being targeted by a serial killer.
There's only one cure, but many ways to die...
Play Dead 豆瓣
作者: Coben, Harlan 2010 - 6
Ex fashion model and successful business woman Laura Ayars' perfect world is shattered at a time which should have been the happiest of her life. On her honeymoon, her sports superstar husband goes for a swim - and never returns. But what has happened to David - can he really be dead? Whilst struggling to cope with her almost overwhelming grief, Laura is plagued by questions and doubts. Was it an accident? Or suicide? Or is it some terrible, ill-judged hoax? As events begin to unfold, Laura starts to question David's mysterious disappearance. She begins to uncover a conspiracy which reaches deep into the past, and is now slowly beginning to destroy everyone involved. Someone will do anything to keep Laura away from the awful truth - and she has no idea who she can trust ...
2020年12月8日 已读
2020.11.24 ~ 2020.12.08
处女作果然不太成熟呀,描写相当繁琐、冗长,人物塑造也比较呆板,最要紧的是,全书的各种设定都不太讲基本法呀!好在可读性还是挺强的,虽然谈不上有什么惊喜。
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The Woods 豆瓣
作者: Harlan Coben Dutton Adult 2007 - 4
Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again.
For Paul Copeland, the county prosecutor of Essex, New Jersey, mourning the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Cope, as he is known, is now dealing with raising his six- year-old daughter as a single father after his wife has died of cancer. Balancing family life and a rapidly ascending career as a prosecutor distracts him from his past traumas, but only for so long. When a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of the prosecutor’s family are threatened.
Is this homicide victim one of the campers who disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive? Cope has to confront so much he left behind that summer twenty years ago: his first love, Lucy; his mother, who abandoned the family; and the secrets that his Russian parents might have been hiding even from their own children. Cope must decide what is better left hidden in the dark and what truths can be brought to the light.
Hold Tight 豆瓣
作者: Harlan Coben Dutton Adult 2008 - 4
2020年11月12日 已读
2020.11.02 ~ 2020.11.11
前40%看的是中文版。这是我的第一本哈兰·科本吧,是很不错的通俗小说,虽然看到后面感觉有些过于机巧,但我能感觉到作者的诚意。Guy和Tia保护各自女儿那段非常感人。
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