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Harlan Coben

Né(e): January 04, 1962 – Newark, New Jersey, United States

Harlan Coben is an American thriller and mystery novelist best known for the Myron Bolitar series and standalones such as Tell No One and The Stranger. His work centers on suspense, secrets, and missing persons, and he is the first author to win the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

Harlan Coben was born in Newark, New Jersey, on January 4, 1962, and grew up in Livingston, a suburban setting that would later echo through much of his fiction. He graduated from Livingston High School in 1980 and from Amherst College in 1984, where he studied political science, played basketball, and worked on The Amherst Student. Coben has said that Amherst sharpened his critical thinking and his ability to imagine competing viewpoints, habits that became central to his approach to suspense and character. After college, he spent years in his family’s travel business, writing in the margins of working life before fiction became a full-time career. ((https://www.harlancoben.com/faq/))

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Maya always woke up at exactly 4:58 A.M
-Fool Me Once
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I sat in the back pew and watched the only woman I would ever love marry another man
-Six Years
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I am serving the fifth year of a life sentence for murdering my own child
-I Will Find You
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The boy who had been missing for ten years stepped into the light
-Home
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I KNEW opening that red door would destroy my life
-Caught
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Kat Donovan spun off her father’s old stool, readying to leave O’Malley’s Pub, when Stacy said, “You’re not going to like what I did.”
-Missing You
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Sometimes, in that split second when Ray Levine snapped a picture and lost the world in the strobe from his flashbulb, he saw the blood
-Stay Close

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"Harlan Coben: simply one of the all-time greats"

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