From the #1 New York Times bestselling get better at of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive

17-year-old Haley McWaid is an excellent girl, the pride of her suburban NJ family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed away to college next year with all the current hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mom wakes one morning hours to find that Haley by no means came home the night time before, and three months quickly pass about Captured without term from the lady, the community assumes the most severe.

Wendy Tynes is usually a reporter on the mission, to identify and lower sexual predators via elaborate–and nationally televised–sting operations. Working with regional police on her news program Captured in the Act, Wendy and her team have got publicly shamed dozens of men by enough time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is usually a social employee known as a pal to troubled teenagers, but his tale soon becomes more difficult than Wendy could have imagined.

In a novel that issues as much since it thrills, filled up with the astonishing stress and unseen suburban machinations which have become Coben’s trademark, Caught tells the story of the missing girl, the city stunned by her loss, the predator and also require taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she can’t trust her personal instincts concerning this story-or the motives of the people around her.