Play Dead

ByHarlan Coben

Release Date: 2010-09-28
Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

Score: 4

From 794 Ratings

Description

The worlds of celebrity and sports are brilliantly dissected and turned upside down in the debut thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger.

Theirs was a marriage made in tabloid heaven, but no sooner had supermodel Laura Ayars and Celtics star David Baskin said “I do” than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, David went out for a swim—and never returned.

Now widowed and grieving, Laura has a thousand questions and no answers. Her search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years—while on the court at Boston Garden, a rookie phenom makes his spectacular debut...

Reviews

Awesome!
5
By Mommy runner
OMG! This is one of my favorite books EVER! I really didn’t pay any attention to the title… until I did! So many twists and turns in this one! Stunning!!!
I feel like a ball in a pinball machine
5
By dancin evergreen
So many twists and turns you forget which direction you’re going in. One of his finest works.
Speechless!
5
By midlotam
Don’t know if I could even recount this whole twisted tale to anyone right now. Just finished this thriller after hours of reading almost continuously day and night. Very hard to put down even for a short time.
Had not read this author before, but now will seek out his books. What an imagination!
Shakespeare was right: “What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”
A real page turner
5
By c3333
Loved this one! Even though it was pretty evident of the outcome, this story was done very well. Coben has been a favorite of mine for a very long time 😃
Good Book
5
By readchikcb
For an author's first attempt, this was very good and engaging. Half way through the book I came across an old review where the reviewer swore that Harlan Coben himself said not to read this first attempt and to move on to other books. I had to laugh because that's how secrets were revealed in this novel; half way through. While it is verbose, and the prose - while good - took an ungodly amount of time to get to the point, it was still good. Meanwhile your mind is leaping ahead and you just want to turn the pages to see if you're right. You are right, and at the risk of becoming wordy too, just stick with this Author. Succeeding books get better, and better and better.
Play Dead
5
By Edward_58
Great storyteller- keeps me turning pages!
Rather implausible
2
By malibue
It was a good read, but the plot was rather implausible.
Play Dead
3
By Awixa
Very confusing at times.
Simplistic
2
By Whirlyme
to the point of being insulting.

Poor grammar and a tired theme beat to death and then dragged through every repetitious redundancy of story telling that exists, is what this book delivers. Anyone with half a brain would figure out the obvious perpetrator and next the actual murderer. It was torturous to actually finish this book. You just want it to be over.

Don't waste your time or money is my recommendation.
Play Dead
5
By Miss Doats
I could not put this book down.The author has done an excellent job. I'm looking forward for more reading.