Missing You by Harlan Coben
Yet another hit standalone from
Coben. NYPD Detective Kat Donovan is not
amused when her best friend signs her up on a dating website. Imagine her surprise when she sees her ex-fiancé’s
picture while scrolling through potential dates. It’s been almost twenty years since they have
spoken but Kat reaches out: and is rebuffed.
Still reeling from being rejected again she is surprised by a teenager
asking for her by name to look into his mom’s disappearance. Why her?
He and his mom are from Connecticut.
Eventually she gets the truth from him – he hacked the dating site his
mom used to meet the new boyfriend she went away with for a romantic vacation. His mom is dating the man Kat was chatting
with, her former fiancé. Is this woman
really missing? Or is she enjoying time
with her new lover? Is something
extremely sinister going on?
Of course something extremely
sinister is going on. I liked the way
the case built since we had inside information; the story of the missing woman
ran concurrently through the narrative. Knowing
what was actually happening to her was for once scarier than not knowing.
I listened to this book on a
Playaway. I’ll admit when we began to
actively collect these again late last year I knew some people really liked
them but personally I didn’t quite see the point. Now I am a complete convert. If you aren’t familiar with them a Playaway
is an audiobook in its own little case which is about 2” x 3.5” and runs off
one AAA battery. You can listen to it
with your own headphones or you can hook it into your car with an AUX cable. I went walking with it and then went into my
older car with it and then my new car and it was perfect for all three
environments and never lost my place in the story. My old car doesn’t have Bluetooth or a USB connection
so I can’t use eAudiobooks and my new car has those but no CD player. Both cars have AUX input so I’m golden with
Playaway – and if I go to the park for a walk I just unhook it from the car,
plug in some headphones and I’m exercising and listening. Only the most popular audiobooks are
available in this format, but that’s okay with me. I’ll just have to listen to some popular
books more often. Looks like I’ll have
to put the new Coben on hold!
