Caught (Abridged)

By: Harlan Coben

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

From the number-one New York Times best-selling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive.

Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst.

Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify and bring down sexual predators via elaborate and nationally televised sting operations. Working with local police on her news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.

In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills, filled with the astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that have become Coben's trademark, Caught tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she can't trust her own instincts about this story - or the motives of the people around her.

Please note: This is the abridged edition. An unabridged version is also available.

©2010 Harlan Coben (P)2010 Random House

Critic reviews

“The thrill-a-minute action zooms on sharp, slippery twists and turns in a white-knuckle race from start to finish.” (Number-one New York Times best-selling author Nora Roberts)

“With Caught, Harlan Coben knocked another one out of the park!” (Number-one New York Times best-selling author Lisa Jackson)

“A Tilt-a-Whirl of a story....Buckle up and prepare for whiplash.” (Number-one New York Times best-selling author Sandra Brown)

Caught

If you like Harlan Coben books, you will thoroughly enjoy this one. If you have not read him yet, this is as good as any to get started on!

Caught me

I truly hated/loved this book. It was the first mystery I can remember where I just had to skip to the end to find out who did what, when and how. I loved everyone even the so called pedophile which I KNEW was innocent--right? I rooted for the broken hearted father who killed the bad guy because the guy was a pedophile and we all hate pedophiles, but then I thought what if the guy was set up and was not a pedophile, so maybe the vigilante didn't really kill him--huh? I was on the side of the cheesy tabloid "reporter" whose "caught ya" journalism I hate in real life.

By the fifth chapter, I HAD to stop and check out the end to confirm that my values had not changed--and the bad guys really was good and how and why they pulled it off.

Doing so ruined the book for me because I just couldn't go back and subject myself to more disorientating emotions toward people that if they knew what I knew wouldn't act the way they do...even though I knew that they were acting perfectly normal for the information they had at the section of the book.

Confusing, yeah, now you know how I felt.

One of the truly best mysteries for someone who ALWAYS knows who done it.

Pretty good

Keep me listening to see how the story ended. Enjoyed the storyline and the ending.

Good enough...but not my favorite Coben.

The story was okay, but the characters (several) did not really develop enough for there to be a payoff. The story moves fast and it is entertaining, but not what I expected from Coben.

Very enjoyable!

I really can't pinpoint any one thing that I loved about this book. But when I finished, I thought back and said... "that was a great book". Loved the ending also!

Wish it wasn’t abridged—

Still good twists and turns —thank you Harlan Coban! Love seeing familiar characters pop up like Win!

Awful Narrting

The worst narrating I have ever herd ! Will never listen to another book narrated by Carrington Mac Duffie

Good "read"

I liked the storyline. I didn't like the back and forth dual narrators. I have been listening to Scott Brick narrate so long that I got mad when I heard Hester and Flair done by someone else. They didn't sound "right". Go back to Scott Brick please.

Love Coben

What did you love best about Caught?

I love the way this writer puts lots if suspense in his books. Never a dull moment here.

Wow!!

I loved this book and the narrator! I was hooked from the beginning and I love books like that. This is Harlen at his best!!!