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Caught

Harlan Coben

2010380 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2010
first published
  • 2010Penguin · ENGISBN 9780451232861
  • 2010Penguin USA, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781101181249
  • 2010Dutton · 388 pages · ENGISBN 9780525951582
  • 2010Thorndike Press · ENGISBN 9781616641382
  • 2011Orion · 380 pages · ENGISBN 9781407245621
  • 2013Orion (An Imprint Of The · ENGISBN 9781409145318
  • 2019Dutton · 384 pagesISBN 9781524745493
  • 2011Marti Yayinlari · 501 pagesISBN 9786054335862

From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst.Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify and bring down sexual predators via elaborate-and nationally televised-sting operations. Working with local police on her news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills, filled with the astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that have become Coben's trademark, Caught tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she can't trust her own instincts about this story-or the motives of the people around her.

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful
Character focusSingle lead

When and where

ThemesJustice
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