The Woods
by Harlan Coben
2007 / 528 pages
read by Scott Brick / 12h 31m
Rating:  A- / crime

Scott Brick can make the phone book sound suspenseful so when he reads something by Harlan Coben the result is pure page-turner.  Coban writes just barely this side of my graphic violence limit  – the specific deeds are not related in gory detail,  but the stories usually involve the resolution of some seriously unpleasant past crimes.

So too with The Woods in which Peter Copeland, now the Prosecuting Attorney of a city in the New Jersey is involved in the trial of a couple of young rapists who have powerful fathers.  Those fathers, or one in particular,  are determined to bring the Prosecutor’s past to light and shine the worst part on Copeland’s part in it.  >>>>MORE>>>>