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The Innocent

Harlan Coben

20051 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
2005
first published
  • 2005Orion · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780752867830
  • 2005Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780752867847
  • 2005Dutton · 388 pages · ENGISBN 9780525948742
  • 2005Center Point Pub. · 479 pages · ENGISBN 9781585476299
  • 2014Penguin Audio · 1 pages · ENGISBN 9781611763553
  • 2006Signet · 514 pages · ENGISBN 9780451215772
  • 2018Boekerij · 384 pagesISBN 9789022583265
  • 2015Albatros · 416 pagesISBN 9788378854944

SOME MISTAKES CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER… The horror of one night is forever etched in Matt Hunter’s memory; the night he innocently tried to break up a fight-and ended up a killer. Now nine years after his release from prison, his innocence long forgotten, he’s an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. With his wife Olivia pregnant and the two of them closing on a house in his home town, things are looking up. Until the day Matt gets a shocking, inexplicable video call from Olivia’s phone. And in an instant, the unraveling begins. A mysterious man who begins tailing Matt turns up dead. A beloved nun is murdered. And local and federal authorities–including homicide investigator, Loren Muse, a childhood schoolmate of Matt’s with a troubled past of her own–see all signs pointing to a former criminal with one murder already under his belt… Matt Hunter. Unwilling to lose everything for a second time, Matt and Olivia are forced outside the law in a desperate attempt to save their future together. An electrifying thrill-ride of a novel that peeks behind the white picket fences of suburbia, THE INNOCENT is at once a twisting, turning, emotionally-charged story, and a compelling tale of the choices we make and the repercussions that never leave us.

How it feels

Emotional toneUnflinching
AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Character focusTwo hander
ComplexityLayered

Worth knowing

Romance levelCentral

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