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Just One Look (Paperback)

by Harlan Coben (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Orion (4 Nov 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752863819
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752863818
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 195,533 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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EVENING STANDARD, 8 November

"A brisk exercise in adrenaline. Coben has a nice line in poetics but he never wastes words."


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'Harlan Coben writes puzzle books. I like puzzles and I like being fooled. Coben does that extremely well, probably better than anyone else around at the moment. Just One Look.. is a puzzle book par excellence. I loved it.' (Mark Timlin THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )

'Coben's power lies not only in narrative and pithy dialogue... his characters are properly fleshed out and credible, making for an emotional, as well as scary, rollercoaster of a read.' (THE DAILY MAIL )

'In the hands of Harlan Coben, you are kept guessing - and intrigued - until the last line. Just when you think you understand everything, Coben introduces a surprising twist. His previous books have been massive bestsellers, and if you read this one you will understand why.' (Matthew Lewin THE GUARDIAN )

'Coben has a highly readable style [and] the crucial skill of being able to evoke evil.' (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH )

'Coben's best' (THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE )

'Coben is one of the genre's big hitters and on this showing it's easy to see why.' (LONDON METRO )

'If you've never read a Harlan Coben, you're in for a treat. As a thriller writer, he is right up there with the best with a great ear for dialogue and total mastery of storytelling. Just one look and you'll be hooked.' (ladsmag.com )

'The best book I've read this year. Coben moves the story along at breakneck speed and the twists keep coming with an eye-popping intensity.' (CRIMETIME )

'A gritty, fast paced page turner with convincing characters and a twist to die for' (NEWMARKET JOURNAL )

"A spell-binding storyteller." (IRELAND ON SUNDAY ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fast-Paced Thriller, 21 Jun 2004
By Untouchable (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Just One Look (Hardcover)
When a mysterious photo appears in Grace Lawson's holiday snaps she is completely unprepared for the effect it will have on her life. It's an old photo and one of the people in it looks a lot like her husband, even though he denies it's him. However, when her husband disappears, the only thing she can think of that may be related is the photo.

What ensues is a desperate hunt for Grace's husband. But he can only be found by working out the significance of the mysterious photo and the identities of the people pictured in it. To add to the terror is the presence of an assassin named Eric Wu, first introduced to scare the pants off us in TELL NO ONE. Eric Wu is a martial arts expert, specialising in incapacitating or killing his victims simply by attacking pressure points on the body. He is a man completely devoid of emotion, effectively a killing machine and a formidable opponent. He has been hired to eliminate the people in the photo and it looks as though nothing's going to stop him.

Harlan Coben has once again produced a thrill-ride of a book with unexpected twists, unlikely heroes and an unusual outcome at the end. His new speciality of books about marriages in which secrets come back to haunt the spouses is continued here and it works just as well her as it did in his first stand-alone, TELL NO ONE.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Just One Look, 16 Oct 2005
By DevJohn01 (Somerset, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Just One Look (Hardcover)
When Grace Lawson finds a mysterious picture mixed in with her newly developed family pictures she thinks that it was a simple mistake, that someone else's picture got mixed in with hers. Until she realizes that one of the men in the picture is her husband and that the photograph in question was taken at least fifteen years ago. After Grace confronts her husband with the picture he suddenly flees their home leaving Grace and their two children with a lot of questions. When the police wont help her, Grace must dig into the past and find a way to bring her husband home but as she soon finds, there are so many secrets in both her and her husband Jack's past that their whole marriage may be based on a lie.

With a dangerous killer after her and others looking to unearth the mystery of that photograph Grace must race against time and look deeply into not only her husbands past but her own as well in order to uncover the truth and stop this killer before he harms Jack, herself and most importantly her children.

`JUST ONE LOOK' kept me up late into the night trying to finish this fast paced thriller. And while I highly recommend, well anything by Harlan Coben really, I did not give `JUST ONE LOOK' my usual Coben five star rating. This is because there was so much going on in the last 30 pages or so that it got a little jumbled. Nonetheless, this is definitely another great novel by Coben, 4 stars!

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A mothers love!, 15 April 2007
By A. McCarthy (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
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Having read a couple of Michael Connelly books I read a review which recommended Harlan Coben. So this was the first of his books that I picked up. I found this book really easy to read and was gripped almost from the start. I wont go into the story line as others have before me but I felt that I really connected with Grace and, having had children of my own, would know what a mother would do to protect them.
An Excellent read! Harlan Coben has me hooked. Almost finished the Innocent and then making a start on my first Myron Bolitar.
Highly recommended
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4.0 out of 5 stars Satisfaction of primary needs guaranteed
Spine tingling suspense and a more than usually convoluted plot from Harlan Coben in this murder and skulduggery novel. Read more
Published 2 months ago by E. Shaw

3.0 out of 5 stars All a bit difficult!
Have read four or five of Coben's books and found them gripping, with and without Myron Bolitar, a great character. I found two thirds of this book a bit of a drag to read. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mikey Bantam

5.0 out of 5 stars I Was a Fish on Coben's Line
Grace Lawson picks up some photos from Photomat, expecting to see recent pictured of her husband and kids, and she does, except somehow there is an extra photo in the pack. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Sara Hackett

5.0 out of 5 stars Coben Strikes Again
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Published 8 months ago by Stephanie Sane

5.0 out of 5 stars She Saw too Much in Just One Look
Grace Lawson goes to Photomat to pick up her pictures, family photos of her, her husband and two children, but among the pictures she finds a photo from another era, two men and... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Maggie Mae

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining
Just One Look is the third Harlan Coben novel I've read (Tell No One and The Final Detail being the other two). Read more
Published 16 months ago by Darren G. Burton

4.0 out of 5 stars The past coming back to haunt
Coben has been around writing popular crime fiction featuring his character Myron Bolitar for some years but it was with his stand-alone breakthrough thriller Tell No One that he... Read more
Published 18 months ago by R. Nicholson-morton

5.0 out of 5 stars Just One Look, That's All it Took, and I was Hooked
Grace Lawson picks up a pack of photos from a Photomat, expecting family photos of herself, her husband and her two children. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Katie Osborne

5.0 out of 5 stars hooked throughout............
This was my first venture into a Harlan Coben book, I found the story line both captivating and intricate, although not in anyway to undermine the book which I felt was a... Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2007 by K. GOODCHILD

5.0 out of 5 stars The Author Certainly Knows How to Write a Thriller

Harlan Coben continues to prove that he is one of the best thriller writers around at the moment. Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2007 by J. Chippindale

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