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Adult Books - Fiction - Crime Fiction - Thriller/Suspense
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Gone for Good.
Coben, Harlan (author).
Apr. 2002. 342p. Delacorte, hardcover, $23.95 (0-385-33558-X).
REVIEW.
First published March 1, 2002 (Booklist).
Coben, best known for his popular series of seven mysteries starring Harvard-educated sports agent/private eye Myron Bolitar, branched out from Renaissance man Bolitar to a quite ordinary hero in Tell No One [BKL My 1 01]. He returns with another stand-alone thriller exploring what happens when fate taps an ordinary guy on the shoulder, forcing him to turn detective. The hero, Will Klein, the director of a New York City foundation for runaway teenagers, has lived for 11 years with the knowledge of a runaway in his own family. His older brother is “gone for good” (family shorthand for dead), after the brutal slaying of their neighbor’s daughter. Even with all the evidence pointing to the older brother, the family cannot accept that their golden boy, a handsome, brilliant tennis champ, committed the murder. Propelling the action here is Will’s discovery, just after his mother’s funeral, of a photograph that proves his brother is still alive. Just as he’s absorbing this shocking fact, Klein’s girlfriend disappears after police charge her with murder. Coben delivers far more than an absorbing mystery here. Through Klein, the psychological suspense turns on the question of guilt, surely, but also on the transcendence of familial love and forgiveness. Watching Klein decide among dangerous alternatives, as the clockwork plot keeps picking up speed, is breathtaking. — Connie Fletcher
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