Tuesday, October 23, 2007

The Woods by Harlan Coben

My Rating: 6/10

After a long gap of almost two months, I am back! Life had been busy with exams, work and nothingness...I have been reading but didnt get the time to talk about it...I read a couple of interesting new releases and I would surely write about it later.

The latest book I read is again a new mystery by Harlan Coben. This is the first book I read of thi author. I would say it is an average mystery book with the potpourri of mystery elements: Murder, sex, lost love..! The writing style is easy-going, and narrated by protagonist: Cope. Here's what it is about:


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 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 6-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 distract him from his past traumas, but only for so long. When a homicide victim was 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: his first love, Lucy, his mother; and the secrets his Russian parents have been hiding even from their own children.