It happens funny things in this quiet little town. A girl humiliated by his college teacher ruminates revenge for a couple looking for a mysterious past donor to cure their son and a 16 year old fliquer Internet by his parents, suddenly disappears. When we know that in addition a Serial Killer comes to settle down in the area .... 3/4 of the novel are composed of dialogues, ie the place that is left to the portraits, characters, sets, analyzes, atmospheres, and everything that is usually the narrative structure of a story. It seems that the author has dug in a playmobil box to create his characters. He has a physical body resting on them, but it is like carved in granite, with such vulgar and common traits we quickly want to forget what it is like the prototype. But then, a character of granite, it can have a very complex character? Why should I go to bore my readers with such ideas? It was understood that characters characterization work is sweat the author, but he at least deserves to take this intellectual flaw (perhaps deliberate) by ignoring these developments, rather than botch of needy and inabouties attempts. Because if I understand what Harlan Coben wants to give its readers is action and suspense. A story, not words. So he let slip his pen in a more condensed cursive style a report in shorthand. The dialogues are those of the street, we do not know which, but if you do not speak with clichés is that you are a pretentious slob and depressed, too tight ass and without any humor. The humor, the humor and the right words, all his characters have, especially in the most dramatic moments where the tension is palpable. As in the scene where a famous lawyer named Hester, straight skirt and austere fifties, has recovered its clients involved in a dirty drug history, in the interrogation room of a police station: "- Get out, ordered Hester (talking to inspectors). This is a private meeting. - There is someone who wants to see your customers, says LeCrue (an inspector). - I do not care whether Jessica Alba up tight ..... " Ouaaahhouh !!! She had hidden his game, the libertine Hester. Suddenly the author at the time that seems most appropriate and most natural, unveils with occasional humor complexity of the character. Awesome !! The novel is also full of this offbeat genius who invites us to keep smiling until death. LUDI
