About Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben grew up in New Jersey, went to Amherst College, and has spent most of his career writing thrillers set in the suburbs north of New York City. He was the first author to win the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards in the same year, which he did in 1996. His Myron Bolitar series launched in 1995 and ran for eleven novels before Coben shifted most of his energy toward a series of standalone domestic thrillers that have made him one of the bestselling thriller writers in the world.

Coben specializes in a particular kind of dread: the comfortable life revealed to be built on secrets. His standalones almost always begin with a stable suburban family whose past suddenly resurfaces in a way that threatens to destroy everything. Tell No One (2001) is the prototype and still his best book. Netflix came calling in a big way in 2018 with a global deal that has produced adaptations in French, Spanish, Polish, and English — many of them quite good. If you want high-speed, propulsive reading with emotional stakes and a genuine sense of place, Coben delivers every time.