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    Tell No One
    Harlan Coben
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    Eight years after his wife's murder, Dr. Beck receives an email that shatters everything. Coben's first standalone thriller became a New York Times bestseller and inspired France's highest-grossing foreign film of 2006. The ultimate page-turner that made literary history.

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