| Just One Look |  | Author: Harlan Coben
Publisher: Dutton Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 2443704
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 5558603003
EAN: 9785558603002
ASIN: 5558603003
Publication Date: January 2001
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Condition: Signed,1st edition.
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 Entertaining July 31, 2008
Darren G. Burton (Australia)
Just One Look is the third Harlan Coben novel I've read (Tell No One and The Final Detail being the other two).
Although I don't rate this book as highly as the other two Coben novels I'd read prior, it was still an enjoyable read and kept me guessing. Twists and turns and keeping the reading guessing is what this kind of fiction is all about.
One thing I'll say for Harlan Coben: He has that knack of keeping the reader wanting to turn those pages. I've had a few sleepless nights readings his books so far. And I'll bet there will be more sleepless nights to come.
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The past coming back to haunt May 12, 2008
R. Nicholson-morton (Alicante, Spain)
Coben has been around writing popular crime fiction featuring his character Myron Bolitar for some years but it was with his stand-alone breakthrough thriller Tell No One that he hit the big time and became known this side of the Atlantic. Since then he has been big, each of his books becoming a best seller. This book is no exception.
Grace Lawson has a past which involves a traumatic accident sixteen years ago that left her memory blank for some important days. But she recovered and got over it and found a husband to love and they had two lovely children. She was happy and contented - until she picked up her family holiday snaps. Among the photographs is an obviously old shot of her husband with people she didn't know - people out of his past. She shows it to him - and he leaves the family home without a word.
Eric Wu is a brutal hitman who has more than a passing interest in the Lawson household. He's an unpleasant creation and inevitably he becomes a serious threat to Grace.
As the mystery deepens and Grace tries to make sense of her husband's disappearance, we begin to doubt who is sincere and who is manipulating her. This is a classic story about the past coming back to haunt - and it's pulled off with aplomb as the connections are gradually unravelled. As usual, Coben still manages to leave one final twist for the end.
If you've never tried Coben, pick up this book. You won't be disappointed.
 Just One Look, That's All it Took, and I was Hooked January 7, 2008
Katie Osborne (Portland, Oregon and the sunny Caribbean)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Grace Lawson picks up a pack of photos from a Photomat, expecting family photos of herself, her husband and her two children. However when she goes through the prints she finds one photo from an earlier time. There are five people in the picture, one a woman has an X drawn through her face, another appears to be of her husband, Jack. When she shows the photos to her husband, he makes a phone call, takes the photo, gets in his van and drives and he dosen't come back.
Grace, in her search for Jack, discovers he'd been being followed by Eric Wu, a sadistic killer. But Wu wasn't the only man on Jack's tale, another man, ex-football player Rocky Conwell, had also been following Jack, but Wu kills him.
Years ago Grace had been the victim of a stampede at a rock concert and had been injured. She learns that the other victims have disappeared or died and she seeks out the help of Carl Vespa, a mob guy, whose son had been killed in the rock riot. The people in the photograph start dying and it all seems to be connected to Eric Wu. Is Jack going to be a victim as well? Can Grace save him?
JUST ONE LOOK is a non stop woman in trouble thriller, a wild ride, a merryground I couldn't get off of and to top off the dynimite story, Coben delivers teriffic characters, like Vespa's drive,r a guy named Cram who got his named because all of his teeth are crammed into one side of his mouth. With characters like that, you'd stay interested even if the book slowed down, but this one doesn't. It just simply speeds along in true Coben fashion.
hooked throughout............ September 4, 2007
K. GOODCHILD (Essex, England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was my first venture into a Harlan Coben book, I found the story line both captivating and intricate, although not in anyway to undermine the book which I felt was a compelling read. The characters are believable and sincere, and Cobens fluent writing style flows with energy throughout the near 400 page book. I have already order four more back catalogue books!
The Author Certainly Knows How to Write a Thriller August 11, 2007
J. Chippindale (England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Harlan Coben continues to prove that he is one of the best thriller writers around at the moment. A page turner is a much used phrase but in this case it is really appropriate. The author's books are always so well structured and his character's well rounded. He is obviously comfortable with his style and ability and this transmits itself to the reader making the reading of his books sheer pleasure from start to finish. Coben has now got a string of best selling crime novels behind him and all I can say is that I hope he continues to write for many years to come. The author lives in New Jersey with his wife and four children.
A convicted hitman suddenly decides to confess to a murder that occurred over twenty years ago. He says that he killed the sister of the District Attorney. Why he decided to own up to the killing now no one knows, as he refuses to reveal his reasons. This is only the start of some links to the past. The book continues at a fast pace in the tradition Harlan Coben way.
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