Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben

Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband—and herself.

Hardcover, 387 pages

Published March 22, 2016

 by Dutton

4.5/5 stars

Recently I received an arc for book 2 in the Sami Kierce Series, Nobody's Fool so it only stands for a reason that I need to read book 1 which is Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben.

I’ve yet to be disappointed in any books I’ve read of his so I was pretty excited to hunker down with this one. The book opened with Maya at the funeral for my husband who was murdered two weeks prior. 

A former special ops pilot, Maya is back in the States with her two year-old daughter. She starts to obsess about what happened with her husband when a nanny cam shows her dead husband in the house. What follows is a fast paced suspense story that kept me glued to the pages. Actually, I did a combo read and listen to the audiobook. The audio was excellent. 

 Along with the baggage of her husband, there are parts of Maya's life that she is dealing with, and as she digs deeper, many secrets that are uncovered, until the ending which I did not seeing coming at all.

Harlan Coben has again delivered an addicting read that was suspenseful. Though the series is named for Detective Sammy Kierce he does not play a predominant role like I thought he would. Book 2 in the series entitled, Nobody’s Fool releases on March 25 and from the blurb he takes center stage.

My copy of this book was obtained through CloudLibrary and the audio through Everand. Well browsing through my bookshelf at home I found have a physical copy so it fits into my 2025 reading off my shelf challenge.