Thriller. Keeps you guessing until the end. Not a book club book. There is not much for discussion. Great airplane, vacation book!

It is a very fast read and entirely forgettable. All the theories and conclusions are found in the last 20 pages. It is a good beach book, it is NOT a good book club discussion book.

Short and simple: Dan Mercer is set up; he is lured to the home of a troubled teenager only to be accused of pedophilia. Although a judge throws out the case in court, the accusation, alone, has ruined Mercer's life. Or so it seems.

And, although they are all now in their 40s, it seems that Mercer’s old college roommates are similarly accused of crimes they did not commit, each similarly ruined as a result.

Wendy, a TV news reporter, tries to get to the bottom of this. She’s the person who caught Mercer in the act, but now she’s not certain that she really caught him in the act.

As usual with Harlan Coben’s books, CAUGHT is full of twists and turns that I just condensed to three little paragraphs. It’s really not short and simple. It’s about blame and revenge and forgiveness. It’s up-to-date, involving the Internet, Google, Facebook, GPS, etc., unlike so many other authors’ thrillers that have only begun mentioning cell phones. It is honestly a book you won’t want to put down.

My only criticism of CAUGHT is when Coben describes one of the former roommates, Phil. He has been laid off his job and has been unemployed for a long time but not for lack of trying. Each morning he dresses in a suit and tie and sits at a restaurant perusing the classified ads in the newspaper. There’s my problem. It’s obviously been a long time since Harlan Coben has had to search for a job.

Harlan: a college graduate no longer searches a newspaper’s classified ads for a job. Harlan: consider rewriting that paragraph in later printings so that Phil brings his laptop to a restaurant where he can get on the Internet and search for a job.

In spite of that one gaffe, if you haven’t read a Coben book before, CAUGHT might be a good one to start with.

This was a great page-turner full of unexpected twists and turns!