Tell No One

[Aixelsyd]

This is an awsone, if somewhat predictable, book.

Story:

David Beck's wife is taken from him on their anniversary, she is found a few months later dead on the side of the road. Eight years later Beck starts getting mysterious e-mails containing information that only him and his wife know. This makes him think that his wife might just be alive all these years.

There is someone very powerful in the city who wants Elizabeth Beck to stay dead. Eight years ago she started unearthing information that threattens said powerful man's reputation.

Have you read it? Do you like it?

[Bibilicious]

This is an awsone, if somewhat predictable, book.


Have you read it? Do you like it?

Hi Aixelsyd - I have read this book and also Gone For Good by Harlan Coben. I do like his books, they are not Lengthy and easy to read whilst travelling/commuting. I thought the storyline behind Tell No One was rather far fetched but made for a good story. I'm going to try 'Just One Look' next.

If you liked Tell No One then do try Gone For Good. You might also want to try reading Shut Eye by Adam Baron - an English writer. His lead character, Billy Rucker is quite well-rounded and I thought the plot and pacing was excellent. Adam Baron has written several books since Shut Eye with Billy Rucker as the lead character and I am going to read 'It Was You' next.

[Simple_simon]

I didn't find this book awesome, either. The good idea was in the premise that a man might see on a webcam the wife he knows to be dead; the problem is that there is no way to resolve this other than by a tedious, frankly unbelievable, explanation. So the author had painted himself into a corner from the word go, and, as far as I am concerned he never found a way out, because there wasn't one. The writing is pretentious in a way that popular American authors seem to have made uniquely their own. If you like it, then better hurry off and get the Da Vinci Code, which is an even worse book.

[Aixelsyd]

I didn't find this book awesome, either. The good idea was in the premise that a man might see on a webcam the wife he knows to be dead; the problem is that there is no way to resolve this other than by a tedious, frankly unbelievable, explanation. So the author had painted himself into a corner from the word go, and, as far as I am concerned he never found a way out, because there wasn't one. The writing is pretentious in a way that popular American authors seem to have made uniquely their own. If you like it, then better hurry off and get the Da Vinci Code, which is an even worse book.
I like the way you said that there is "no way to resolve this other than by a tedious, frankly unbelievable, explanation". Then you went on to say that there was not a way out, and it seems that you used "no way to resolve" and "no way out" as synonyms, yet you also said that there was a way out, which is the tedious explanation.

Why do you think that the explanation that his wife isn't dead ia tedious? I have read quite a few books that have pseudocide in them.

[Simple_simon]

I think I can do no more than suggest you plough once more through the last 37 pages of this tedious book, in which the author blithely says that an American woman, who has NOT been murdered, had a corpse substituted for her, which managed to convince the police that she was dead, and she was then sent away for 8 years "bouncing around third world countries, working for the Red Cross, or UNICEF, or whatever organisation she could hook up with". That hardly reads to me like taut realistic plotting, more a facile blurring of the possibilities which could only convince the unsophisticated, the untravelled, or someone with no experience of the realities of life in the modern world. It reads to me as a complicated version of the old 'with one bound he was free'. I rest my case.

[chuntzy]

Not being well up in the crime novels genre I bought 100 Must-Read Crime Novels and subsequently read this. OK, with this type of novel you have to suspend disbelief but I, too, found that I was having to suspend it too much. I did finish it but will try, to be fair, his Bolivar ones next and see if I'm more impressed.

[Royal Rother]

Finished Tell No One last night and thought it was excellent.

Some people analyse their fiction far too deeply! Others sneer at plots that don't match up to their rather boring view of what fiction should be.

Then there are people like Simple Simon who do both.

[al60uk]

Having seen Michael Caine quoted as saying that the film of this book was the best film of 2008, I actually saw the film before reading the book (for a change!) - this helped enormously with the intricacies of the plot and made the book more enjoyable (and more believable!).