Harlan Coben's first book, PLAY DEAD, had been out of print. It's reissued in paperback now.

A gorgeous model marries a Boston Celtics basketball player who disappears and is supposedly found dead. But something's going on that's fishy-fishy.

And so the reader is taken for a ride as everyone seems suspect of something. And another basketball player shows up whose moves on the court are mighty suspect.

Coben prefaces this book with a plea for readers who haven't read his other, later books: please don't read this one first, he says,

So I was all set to dislike PLAY DEAD. But I didn't. It kept me up reading until late at night, and that's a good book, I think.

I looked for something to be wrong, and here were my problems with it:

The awful brother
The end

If you like Coben's books, you will this one, too. Don't be put off by his preface.