’Harlan Coben always has a good tale to tell, and he knows how to present it with elegance, pace and loads of tension’--Guardian

’This is familiar Coben territory - dark, twisted and gripping’--Daily Mail

’Harlan Coben has made his intentions clear: he wants to fool his readers. And he makes a good job of doing so in The Innocent... The enjoyably intricate plot takes several turns before we are fooled for the last time and the villains and motive are revealed. A book to read in one gulp’--Daily Telegraph

One slip was all it took to rob Matt Hunter of the life he had so well mapped out. A fight, a friend in trouble, and the dull crack of someone’s skull on the concrete cost him four years in jail and a small sliver of his soul. Emerging an older and wiser person, he finds a job to be proud of and a beautiful girl who agrees to marry him. But now someone is following him, threatening everything he has worked so hard for. And Matt can’t trust anyone - least of all those he loves...