Former New York detective Sami Kierce is Nobody’s Fool, the latest mystery by Harlan Coben coming out March 25. One evening while he is teaching an adult ed criminology class on the Lower Eastside, a mystery woman briefly pops into class. Thinking she is someone from his past, fast-acting Sami slips a tracking device into her coat pocket as she dashes out of the room.
Sami dismisses his
students so he can follow the woman who he dubs “Maybe Anna,” a woman who he
met in Spain when he backpacked through Europe with some friends after college
25 years ago. He trails her to an upper-class
neighborhood in Connecticut where he is deflected from the estate by two
guards.
Not to be deterred,
Sami engages his students—many of whom are true crime fanatics--with the task
of finding out the identity of the woman. He does not reveal his main concern: the
last time he saw Anna in Spain, she was dead.
Anna’s death knocked
him off his career path of becoming a doctor. Instead, he chose to join the police force, a job from which he eventually was
fired for multiple violations of law enforcement protocol. In addition, he was
being sued for causing a civilian to be seriously injured. To make ends meet as
he supports a wife and son, Sami has been trading legal representation in the
lawsuit for becoming an investigator in
divorce negotiations, supplementing his income with his part-time teaching gig.
How can the visitor to
his classroom possibly be a woman he met 25 years ago? What are the chances he
can redeem himself and dismiss his guilt IF Anna is really alive?
Harlan Coben is a prize-winning mystery and suspense writer with the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards to his credit—the first author to have won all three. A dozen of his books have been adapted into the Netflix series including Fool Me Once, which premiered in January 2024.
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