Missing You

Zusatztext Praise for Missing You A dive-in! lose-sleep! and miss-your-bus-stop reading experience.Associated Press Another winner in Coben's stack of winners.The Huffington Post Masterfully explores the costs of our techno-crazed existence...making the brilliantly stages Missing You not to be missed. The Providence Journal Delivers twists aplenty. The Boston Globe One of Coben's best ever. The Globe and Mail (Canada) Once again! Coben has brilliantly used a current trend! in this case Internet dating! to create a can't-put-it-down thriller. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Coben has expertly constructed and then dismantled a time bomb of a plot. Booklist Informationen zum Autor Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times and international bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including I Will Find You , The Match , Win , Fool Me Once , Stay Close , and The Stranger , as well as the award-winning Myron Bolitar series. Coben has more than eighty million books in print in more than forty languages worldwide, and several of his novels have been made into Netflix series. The winner of Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, he lives in New Jersey. Klappentext From the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger comes the #1 New York Times bestseller about the ties we have to our past-and the lies that bind us together-as the ultimate Internet scam unfolds... Surfing an online dating site! NYPD detective Kat Donovan feels her whole world explode. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé! the man who shattered her heart-and whom she hasn't seen in eighteen years. But when Kat reaches out to the man in the profile! an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light. As Kat begins to investigate! her feelings are challenged about everyone she's ever loved-even her father! whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained. With lives on the line! including her own! Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there. Chapter 1 Kat Donovan spun off her father's old stool, readying to leave O'Malley's Pub, when Stacy said, You're not going to like what I did. The tone made Kat stop mid-stride. What? O'Malley's used to be an old-school cop bar. Kat's grandfather had hung out here. So had her father and their fellow NYPD col- leagues. Now it had been turned into a yuppie, preppy, master-of- the-universe, poser asshat bar, loaded up with guys who sported crisp white shirts under black suits, two-day stubble, manscaped to the max to look un- manscaped. They smirked a lot, these soft men, their hair moussed to the point of overcoif, and ordered Ketel One instead of Grey Goose because they watched some TV ad telling them that was what real men drink. Stacy's eyes started darting around the bar. Avoidance. Kat didn't like that. What did you do? Kat asked. Whoa, Stacy said. What? A Punch-Worthy at five o'clock. Kat swiveled to the right to take a peek. See him? Stacy asked. Oh yeah. Décor-wise, O'Malley's hadn't really changed much over the years. Sure, the old console TVs had been replaced by a host of flat- screens showing too wide a variety of gameswho cared about how the Edmonton Oilers did?but outside of that, O'Malley had kept the cop feel and that was what had appealed to these posers, the faux authenticity, moving in and pushing out what had made the place hum, turning it into some Disney Epcot version of what it had once been. Kat was the only cop left in here. The others now went home after their shifts, or to AA meetings. Kat still came and tried to sit quietly on her father's old stool with the ghosts, ...

Praise for Missing You

“A dive-in, lose-sleep, and miss-your-bus-stop reading experience.”—Associated Press

“Another winner in Coben’s stack of winners.”—The Huffington Post
 
“Masterfully explores the costs of our techno-crazed existence...making the brilliantly stages Missing You not to be missed.”—The Providence Journal
 
“Delivers twists aplenty.”—The Boston Globe 

“One of Coben's best ever.”—The Globe and Mail (Canada)

“Once again, Coben has brilliantly used a current trend, in this case Internet dating, to create a can’t-put-it-down thriller.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Coben has expertly constructed and then dismantled a time bomb of a plot.”—Booklist

Auteur

Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times and international bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including I Will Find You, The Match, Win, Fool Me Once, Stay Close, and The Stranger, as well as the award-winning Myron Bolitar series. Coben has more than eighty million books in print in more than forty languages worldwide, and several of his novels have been made into Netflix series. The winner of Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, he lives in New Jersey.

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From the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger comes the #1 New York Times bestseller about the ties we have to our past-and the lies that bind us together-as the ultimate Internet scam unfolds...

Surfing an online dating site, NYPD detective Kat Donovan feels her whole world explode. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé, the man who shattered her heart-and whom she hasn't seen in eighteen years.

But when Kat reaches out to the man in the profile, an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light. As Kat begins to investigate, her feelings are challenged about everyone she's ever loved-even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained.

With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there.

Résumé
From the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger comes the #1 New York Times bestseller about the ties we have to our past—and the lies that bind us together—as the ultimate Internet scam unfolds...

**Surfing an online dating site, NYPD detective Kat Donovan feels her whole world explode. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé, the man who shattered her heart—and whom she hasn’t seen in eighteen years.

But when Kat reaches out to the man in the profile, an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light. As Kat begins to investigate, her feelings are challenged about everyone she’s ever loved—even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained.

With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there.

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Chapter 1 Kat Donovan spun off her father’s old stool, readying to leave O’Malley’s Pub, when Stacy said, “You’re not going to like what I did.”

The tone made Kat stop mid-stride. “What?”

O’Malley’s used to be an old-school cop bar. Kat’s grandfather had hung out here. So had her father and their fellow NYPD col- leagues. Now it had been turned into a yuppie, preppy, master-of- the-universe, poser asshat bar, loaded up with guys who sported crisp white shirts under black suits, two-day stubble, manscaped to the max to look un- manscaped. They smirked a lot, these soft men, their hair moussed to the point of overcoif, and ordered Ketel One instead of Grey Goose because they watched some TV ad telling them that was what real men drink.

Stacy’s eyes started darting around the bar. Avoidance. Kat didn’t like that.

“What did you do?” Kat asked. “Wh…