Harlan Coben’s blistering and bracing The Boy from the Woods (Grand Central) is a hybrid mystery-thriller featuring a unique blend of concepts and themes. Starkly original, in fact. Our hero is Wilde, who as a boy was (almost) quite literally raised by wolves — at least, in the same wild…
Jon LandMarch 27, 2020
Simon sat on a bench in Central Park and felt his heart shatter. So begins the brilliantly executed Run Away (Grand Central) which just might be the best book Harlan Coben has ever written. For such a master storyteller, that’s a high bar indeed but one Coben effortlessly crests by…
Jon LandMarch 21, 2019
This story originally appeared on The Real Book Spy. Joe Pickett, America’s favorite game warden, is back in Wolf Pack (G.P. Putnam's Sons), the latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box. When a high-tech drone leads to the death of wildlife in Wyoming, a female game warden follows…
Ryan SteckMarch 18, 2019
BookTrib columnist and bestselling author Jon Land returns with a new set of "Jon's Picks," the best new thrillers and suspense novels you should be reading this season. Filled with dark secrets, villainous plot twists and startling encounters with killers make this one of Jon's best lists yet! After Anna,…
BookTribApril 12, 2018
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Jon LandSeptember 27, 2022
Harlan Coben continues his fabulous flirtation with postmodern horror in The Match (Grand Central), a Frankenstein-esque tale that picks up where The Boy from the Woods left off. Wilde, who literally grew up in the wild as a boy, has abandoned his attempt to live in society, realizing the forest…
Jon LandMarch 28, 2022
Harlan Coben rolls the dice with Win (Grand Central) and comes out a big, well, winner. The Win of the title, of course, is Windsor Horne Lockwood III, a central figure in Coben’s terrific Myron Bolitar series, who we know as a fabulously wealthy fixer not afraid to get his…
Jon LandMarch 24, 2021