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Just One Look

Author: Harlan Coben
Publisher: Orion
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

38 reviews
Sales Rank: 8303

Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.1

ISBN: 0752863819
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780752863818
ASIN: 0752863819

Publication Date: November 4, 2004
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Condition: Pages good, clean, flat, unmarked. Slightly different cover. Some wear to cover. Will be sent from Devon within 24 hours by first class post.

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4 out of 5 stars

The past coming back to haunt May 12, 2008
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.

5 out of 5 stars

Just One Look, That's All it Took, and I was Hooked January 7, 2008
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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.

5 out of 5 stars

hooked throughout............ September 4, 2007
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!

5 out of 5 stars

The Author Certainly Knows How to Write a Thriller August 11, 2007
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.

4 out of 5 stars

Pale Ink June 8, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

Harlan Coben was born in New Jersey in 1962 and is best known for his Myron Bolitar novels. "Just One Look", however, is one of his was stand-alone novels, and was first published in 2004.

Although Grace Lawson is a well-known artist, she's better remembered for an incident known as the 'Boston Massacre'. Fifteen years before the book opens, Grace was in the front pit for a a Jimmy X concert - a show that had been due to start at 8:30pm. The crowd are, obviously, a little agitated when it hits midnight and there's still no sign of the singer. Unfortunately, at that point, things move a little beyond agitation when three shots are fired. The resulting mayhem eighteen people dead and Grace, briefly, in a coma - with a variety of injuries. A year later, she movea to France to study art and meets Jack Lawson there - the man who was to become her husband. It had been love at first sight for the pair, though each kept their secrets : Grace couldn't really talk about the concert (her memories were still a little fuzzy), while Jack had a falling-out with his family - the details of which he was also reluctant to share.

Grace and Jack returned to America, shortly after Grace fell pregnant with their first child. (Emma is now eight, while their more recent addition, Max, is six). Her troubles start as she picks up some freshly-developed photographs from a family day out - when she discovers a photo she didn't take in her packet. At first she thinks someone else's photo has accidentally been sorted into hers - but then she suspects it's been placed there on purpose...There are five people in the photo and, judging by the quality of the print,and the style of dress, it was taken around fifteen years ago. One of the faces has been covered with a large 'X', while another - she thinks - is of Jack...but, at a point in his life before she had met him. Later that night, when Jack arrives home from work, he sees the photo and - within a matter of minutes - nips out the front door and drives off without a word. When he doesn't return, Grace knows he's in trouble. She's right : what she doesn't know, however, is that Jack's been grabbed by Eric Wu - not a man you'd want to mess with. The police, initially, assume he's just done a runner (possibly to scratch a seven year itch). Grace, on the other hand, knows better - and so starts trying to discover what's happened to him. Luckily, she has a couple of useful allies - including noted Mafia Boss Carl Vespa and an Assistant US Attorney, Scott Duncan.

Although I don't think "Just One Look" will ever be considered a classic, it's certainly much better than a Dan Brown book. Admittedly, there wasn't much in the way of tension or fear and some of the characters - the friendly neighbourhood Mafia Boss, for example - were just a little bit too convenient. There also turned out to be a few too many connections between the key players...however, I did find it to be a very enjoyable, pacey and easily read book and it's certainly worth a rattle.