Harlan Coben - The Final Detail

Harlan Coben - The Final Detail

Harlan Coben has quickly become my favorite mystery writer. I got an advanced copy of No Second Chance a few years ago from Penguin and loved it, flew right through it, and read everything of his that I can get my hands on anymore. (On a side note: I wrote Penguin about how much I loved No Second Chance and Harlan actually added me to his families Christmas card mailing list - I get pictures of his kids!, It's so cool)

Ok, so I just started and finished The Final Detail yesterday. This is one of his first novels, about Myron Bolitar (a sports agent, just my cup of tea) who also gets caught up in mysteries. Of course, the twist at the end I did not see coming, just like in his other novels, but this one was a little bit harder to get to and see coming. You can surely see the progression of his writing from this to his current style. It's still a great day read, something you can fly right through and enjoy and written well enough that you don't feel like you've wasted the past four hours reading mind candy, although it really is. It's a nonthinking kind of read, and just what I needed.

I'm not going to give you the details of this book, because well...they're really not necessary. The important thing about this note is that I suggest if you like a good mystery to pick up any Harlan Coben book, open it and get sucked in. You'll escape into it before you hit the end of the first chapter.

(and by the way, the only reason that I'm listening to Rod Stewart, as noted below is because Ted, our new employee, thought that was something good to listen to. He's not gay, he's just hilarious and a bit quirky!)