'Just one Look' is the second book by author Harlan Coben that I bought based on a recommendation by a fellow reviewer, and just like my introduction to this award winning thriller writer I found myself becoming engrossed in the story which well and truly captured my imagination. One first glance at the description on the back of the book you would be forgiven for thinking that the storyline is going to to be quite simplistic and indeed the story begins with a seemingly random event. We discover that life for Grace Lawson is about to turn upside down when she picks up some holiday photographs and notices one that doesn't belong. A group of five people are ...  Read the complete review

I am currently working my way through all the books I can get my hands on by Harlan Coben. Since borrowing one of his books from my daughter, I have been hooked. I love it when I find a new author to like! 'Just One Look' is the most recent one I have read. In fact I took it on holiday with me last month and read it in two days! I would have read it in a day if I had been at home, as I found it hard to put down. The only problem was, by reading it so quickly I had nothing left to read for the rest of my holiday! The story centres around Grace Lawson. Happily married to husband Jack, and mum to their two children, her contented world is thrown into ...  Read the complete review

I have read and reviewed books by Harlan Coben before and have really enjoyed them, so I was looking forward to this one. It was an enjoyable read, quite 'out there' in terms of an abstract plot, but a good crime thriller none the less that will keep you guessing. We're introduced to Grace Lawson, a woman happily married too her husband jack, with whom she has two kids. On a routine trip out, she collects some holiday snaps from the 'Photomat' (yup, this is American), and goes to pick her children up from school. What she wasn't expecting was to find an old-looking photo in the packet; perhaps it got dropped in by accident, but at least one face from this more ...  Read the complete review

I'm a great fan of crime books. I enjoy the 'edge of your seat' nature of some of the contributions of authors like David Baldacci, John Grisham and others. I am quite fussy in what I like in a book, and judging from the other reviews of this particular one, I am sticking my neck out by saying I didn't like it. The book was free from o2 rewards so it didn't cost anything. I hadn't read anything by Harlan Coben although I had heard of him and was aware that his books were popular. Hence the reason for selecting this book from the few on offer. It is a paperback of 387 pages long. The version I have varies from the one pictured above and has a pink toned ...  Read the complete review

Grace has the so-called perfect life; a happy artist, mum of two and an adoring husband. This all changes one day when she collects her photographs and finds one that doesn't belong in her pack. On closer inspection Grace finds that the picture is of her husband as a much younger man. When Grace shows the picture to her husband, it is clear that it has struck a cord. He leaves the house - and doesn't return. The police believe he has just left her for another woman but Grace just knows that there is something terribly wrong connecting her husband with the people in the picture, and she sets about trying to find the truth - putting her and her children's life in ...  Read the complete review