Book Review: Play Dead by Harlan Coben

This is Harlan Coben's first published novel so you have to give a little leeway here! If you want to read all of his novels then you are going to read it anyway. As a novel it is not great but it is nice to see how much someone learns as Harlan Coben very soon becomes a good then a great writer with later novels.

Having written that it is a readable novel and the plot is a trifle implausible but you can identify with the characters and appreciate the story as it unfolds. The world of basketball is well portrayed (I think!) and the dynamics of the Baskins marriage and Laura's career too is interesting.

Only a 5/10 for this one for me.