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Fool me once  Cover Image Book Book

Fool me once / Harlan Coben.

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"Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya's husband, Joe--who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband--and herself."-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780525955092 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9781101984352 (mass market paperback)
  • Physical Description: 390 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Dutton, [2016]
Subject: Widows > Fiction.
Veterans > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Husbands > Death > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Genre: Suspense fiction.
Mystery fiction

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Burns Lake Public Library AF COB (Text) 35198000599341 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Alert Bay Public Library AF COB (Text) 35125000118640 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Beaver Valley Public Library F COB (Text) 35144000149422 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Bibliotheque St. Claude Library FIC COB (Text) 36725000004788 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Boissevain-Morton Library F/Coben (Text) 36266000275284 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Bren Del Win Centennial Library F Coben (Text) 36320000327445 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Castlegar Public Library MYS COB (Text) 35146001962943 Mystery Volume hold Available -
Chetwynd Public Library FIC COB (Text) 35222000936830 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library F COB (Text) DCL168678 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library PB SUSPENSE (Text) DCL156449 Adult paperbacks Volume hold Available -

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  • Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2016 May #1
    Combat pilot Maya Burkett's last mission ended in tragedy, with civilians killed during a rescue of stranded soldiers. Now, in best-selling Coben's latest, she's settling into a new life with her husband, Joe, and two-year-old daughter, Lily—until she witnesses her husband's murder. Suddenly a single mother, plagued by nightmares and PTSD, Maya accepts the gift of a nanny cam disguised as a picture frame to help her keep an eye on her daughter while she's at work. Her life seems calmer, until she checks the cam's video images and sees her husband. Could he really be alive? Or is someone trying to convince her she's losing her mind? The video galvanizes Maya, and she becomes a woman with a mission, armed and dangerous, as she looks for answers among dark secrets from the past. Coben excels in setting up the requisite whom-can-she-trust scenario. The pace never falters, buoyed by Maya's urgent investigations and the myriad plot twists, which keep readers off balance, wondering what's happening and whom to believe. Coben is one of those genre authors who has crossed over to mainstream popularity and just keeps building his brand. No changes here. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews.
  • Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2016 February #1
    Coben (The Stranger, 2015, etc.) hits the bull's eye again with this taut tale of a disgraced combat veteran whose homefront life is turned upside down by an image captured by her nanny cam. Recent widows can't be too careful, and the day she buries the husband who was shot by a pair of muggers in Central Park, Maya Burkett installs a concealed camera in her home to keep an eye on Lily, her 2-year-old daughter, and her nanny, Isabella Mendez , while she's out at her job as a flight instructor. She's shocked beyond belief when she checks the footage and sees images of her murdered husband returned from the grave to her den. Confronted with the video, Isabella claims she doesn't see anything that looks like Joe Burkett, then blasts Maya with pepper spray and takes off with the memory card. Should Maya go to the police? They were no help when her sister, Claire, was killed in a home invasion while she was deployed in the Middle East, and she doesn't trust Roger Kierce, the NYPD homicide detective heading the investigation of Joe's murder. Besides, Maya's already juggling a heavy load of baggage. Whistle-blower Corey Rudzinski ended her military career when he posted footage of her ordering a defensive airstrike that killed five civilians, and she's just waiting for him to release the audio feed that would damage her reputation even more. So after Kierce drops a bombshell—the same gun was used to shoot both Joe and Claire—Maya launches her own investigation, little knowing that it will link both murders to the death more than 10 years ago of Joe's brother Andrew and the secrets the wealthy and powerful Burkett family has been hiding ever since. Once again, Coben marries his two greatest strengths—masterfully paced plotting that leads to a climactic string of fireworks and the ability to root all the revelations in deeply felt emotions—in a tale guaranteed to fool even the craftiest readers a lot more than once. Copyright Kirkus 2016 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.
  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2015 November #1

    You would think that former special ops pilot Maya would be happy to see husband Joe on the nanny cam playing with their two-year-old daughter, but she's shocked; Joe was murdered two weeks previously. Coben is an Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony award winner with eight consecutive No. 1 New York Times best sellers to his credit.

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  • LJ Express Reviews : LJ Express Reviews
    Maya Stern Burkett has known death. As a former army special ops pilot, she recognizes it's just part of the job, but in her civilian life she never expected to lose both her husband and her sister to murder. Though they each died at different times and under different circumstances, Maya is still forced to carry on as a single mother to her own daughter, Lily, and help raise her sister's two kids. She installs a nanny cam in her living room, disguised as a digital picture, and who does she see but her late husband playing with her daughter. Maya is thrown into a spiral of disbelief and becomes obsessed with finding answers. As she uncovers hard truths about her family and herself, Maya's life is in jeopardy, and time is running out. Verdict Coben (The Stranger) has done it again with this fast-paced smart thriller. Fans and those new to Coben will devour this stand-alone. [A March LibraryReads Pick.]—Cynthia Price, Francis Marion Univ. Lib., Florence, SC (c) Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
  • Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2016 February #1

    Capt. Maya Stern Burkett, the heroine of this stellar standalone from Edgar-winner Coben (The Stranger), has suffered more than her fair share of tragedy. Her career as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot came to an end after whistle-blower Corey Rudzinski exposed the civilian deaths caused by her actions in Iraq. Even worse, her husband, Joe Burkett, is shot to death in front of her in Manhattan's Central Park, though Maya is able to give a good description of the masked killers to an NYPD homicide detective. Maya is already dealing with the nightmares from her combat experiences and the murder of her sister, Claire, four months earlier while Maya was stationed in Kuwait. Then, weeks after Joe's funeral, a recently installed nanny cam shows her two-year-old daughter, Lily, crawling onto Joe's lap. Other shocks follow. Implausible links arise between Joe's death and Claire's, and she must face the possibility of more revelations from Rudzinski. Coben is like a skilled magician saving the best, most stunning trick for the very end. Five-city author tour. Agent: Lisa Erbach Vance, Aaron Priest Literary Agency (Mar.)

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