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The Match: From the #1 bestselling creator of the hit Netflix series Stay Close

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Your daughter disappears. She’s addicted to drugs, has an abusive boyfriend, and has made it clear that she doesn’t want to be found. Why doesn’t Silas recognize Sofia in the picture? Yes, the photo was from before he was born, but wouldn’t he still recognize her? Pleased to see “hot” 70 something, defense attorney Hester Crimsten is once again staying connected. She, of course, has been in other Coben novels. Coben’s wit comes through in Hester. Meanwhile, and unrelated to Wilde, an online vigilante group calling themselves “boomerang” which exists to “punish” internet trolls has been asked to look into the trolling of Peter Bennet. It decides to take no action but one of its members provides information to a external party who goes on a killing spree. The Match' (Wilde, #2) is even better (imho) than 'The Boy from the Woods' (Wilde, #1). I highly recommend reading book #1 first since this is its continuation and would be very difficult to understand if you do not.

Wilde had never met his father. Or his mother. Or any family member. He didn't know their names or where he was born or when or how he, as a very young child, ended up living alone in the woods of the Ramapo Mountains, fending for himself. Now, more than three decades after being "rescued" as a little boy-"ABANDONED AND FERAL!" one headline had put it; "A MODERN-DAY MOWGLI!" shouted another-Wilde sat no more than twenty yards from a blood relative and the elusive answers to his mysterious origin." Anyhoo… the members of Boomerang are there to right wrongs and they cross paths with Wilde when he discovers the murder of an online troll – with links to Peter. It could become a little confusing – given the layers of the plot and the fact we seem to have ‘good’ and ‘bad’ vigilantes but kept guessing if they’re one and the same or a rogue element… or something else entirely.

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He has sold over 70 million printed copies worldwide, with his books being published in 43 languages around the globe. Could this be the solution? Please feel free to disagree with me in comments but do NOT make me research cousin relationships anymore.

Harlan Coben is one of my all time favourite authors. I was thrilled to get this arc. This is a follow up book to the The Boy From the Woods which I appear to have completely missed although the Hester Crimstein character rings a huge bell, she must have appeared in other Coben books. It’s not a name you forget easily. Not to worry, it reads fine as a stand alone. A match is actually found - a close relative, but the relative deletes their details immediately. However, Wilde doesn’t give up, but his research results in him becoming embroiled in a secret online community, intent on exposing trolls - and then people start to die - one by one! No one has seen Natalie in years, and mutual friends of the couple either can’t be traced or just don’t remember Jake. When a match on a DNA database puts him on the trail of a close relative - the only family member he has ever known - Wilde thinks he might be about to solve the mystery of who he really is. The story flies by, it’s nonstop action. Yes, it’s convoluted. And the ending gives the reader twist after twist. I give Coben credit that I never saw any of them coming.Peter Bennett is a reality star on the show “Love is a Battlefield”. I, of course, thought the same as Wilde as in Pat Benatar’s song “Love is a Battlefield” is now a reality show? There's a reason Harlan Coben has second to most books on my shelves (to Matthew Reilly), which thinking about it is funny because I tend to lean toward female authors... anyway, this was - like most his other books - AMAZING. Could. Not. Put. It. Down.

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