Andrew McKie

Children go missing: the latest crime fiction reviewed

Andrew McKie reviews novels by Harlan Coben, Lucy Atkins, Kathy Reichs and Jacob Ross

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issue 30 May 2020

Hot on the heels of The Stranger, the Netflix series based on his novel but transplanted to the UK, Harlan Coben returns with his 32nd book. Some of us have been getting our regular dose ever since he introduced his sports agent sleuth Myron Bolitar in the mid-1990s, and The Boy from the Woods (Century, £20) contains all the usual ingredients.

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