Caught

By: Harlan Coben

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie, Danny Campbell

Length: 10 hrs and 50 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.

©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)

Great story line.

Loved it. Mystery right to the end. Lots of twists and a surprise ending. Couldn't stop listening.

Right or Wrong?

Made me ask, “What would you do?” Honestly I haven’t come up with the answer. Whether one keeps quiet or not, you still won’t have a day go by without knowing the truth which is punishment in itself.

A good read

Well written (as expected from Harlan Coben) though the plot seemed a bit 'stretched' at times.
Well performed.

Pretty good push through the middle

I’m glad this was recommended by a friend because it made me stick it out when things got a little slow in the middle. Over all absolutely worth the credit

Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book...

I normally savor my Harlan Cohen books, but this I listened to withing 3 days and I was completely into the story. You think you know....

Great story

The story was great! The narration not so much; it wasn’t so horrible that I couldn’t finish listening, but I definitely would not buy a book with these narrators by choice. They were not as bad as a lot of reviewers are making out though. The book is well worth a credit.

Kept me interested

Great for when I’m cleaning house doing dishes or running errands this story kept me interested and tuning in till the end

Good story too many characters

I am a big fan of Harlan Coben. I think he is an astonishingly creative writer with great stories. This story was hard for me to follow because I could not keep track of all the characters.

It was a complex group of interesting individuals, but too many to keep straight.

On repeat….Another brilliantly written story

Harlan does his typical story telling. Many stories seemingly unrelated come together in the end. This story is now more believable in 2023. So much easier to come up with false stories today. And bringing back family characters, especially Win, was icing on the cake. I should have known something was up when Hester became Ed’s lawyer. MacDuffie is a new narrator to me did a brilliant job.

good read

suspenseful. a good read easy to listen to. plot twist never fails with this author.