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  • The Innocent

  • By: Harlan Coben
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (4,703 ratings)

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The Innocent

By: Harlan Coben
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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Publisher's summary

Some mistakes can change your life forever. For Matt Hunter, that mistake came in one terrible moment when his attempt to help a friend and stop a fight resulted in an accidental death. Matt was convicted of manslaughter and sent to prison. Time that his peers spent in college, Matt endured behind bars.

Now, nine years after his release from prison, his innocence long forgotten, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. With his wife Olivia pregnant, and the two of them closing on a house in his hometown, things are looking up. Until the day Matt gets a shocking, inexplicable video call from Olivia's phone. And in an instant, the unraveling begins.

A mysterious man who begins tailing Matt turns up dead. A beloved nun is murdered. And local and federal authorities, including homicide investigator Loren Muse, a childhood schoolmate of Matt's with a troubled past of her own, see all signs pointing to a former criminal with one murder already under his belt...Matt Hunter. Unwilling to lose everything for a second time, Matt and Olivia are forced outside the law in a desperate attempt to save their future together.

An electrifying thrill ride of a novel that peeks behind the white picket fences of suburbia, The Innocent is at once a twisting, turning, emotionally-charged story and a compelling tale of the choices we make and the repercussions that never leave us.

©2005 Harlan Coben (P)2005 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"What Coben does best is take readers into his characters’ hearts and minds. His protagonists are just common folks, minding their own business when - bam! - they are drawn into a terrifying world of sordid crimes and mayhem.” (USA Today)

“Modern suburbia unravels in this latest puzzler from Coben...Don’t make the mistake of not reading it!” (Library Journal)

"Jaw-dropping plot twists...Fans of rose-tinted nightmares [will] gasp their way through Matt’s free fall, scared and happy as kids on a roller coaster.” (Kirkus Reviews)

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Issue with audio.

Chapter 26 (28 in the chapter list) seems to sound like a broken record in a few spots.

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Disappointed

dragged out went on and on with to much dribble meaning nothing, adding nothing.

narrator was good.

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Great listen

Page turner! Ever changing theories on what the heck is going on. Good narration. Got a kick from minor character, Ernie. As usual a mystery ending.

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Love Harlan Colben again.

Just when I thought I new what was going on..... Wham add another dimension. Even better.

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Consistent Coben; Excellent Scott Brick

Scott Brick is fantastic once again. The story is engaging and not overly obvious. Another good read from Coben.

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not bad

couple good twists, not what you had expected. decent enough read, I blew through it in a couple of days.

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Intrigued

The story kept me interested through out. I love this narrator. The way he reads makes me see/imagine the story.

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Past Present & Future

Past always comes with memories one would like to forget. The truth and reliving a bad moment in time is not something you want to do. But in stories it brings you past it with fulfillment for the future.

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He did again

I am a huge Harlan Coben fan. He always writes a great story. This one is not an exception!!!

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Very entertaining performance of a well written bo

Great well developed characters.
Unpredictable ending.
Scott Brick did a wonderful read.
Excellent plot and twists.

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