Nobody’s Fool is my first experience witth Harlan Coben’s Sami Kierce. An intriguing stand alone thriller, it won’t be my last.
Having unceremoniously lost his job as a New York City detective, Kierce makes ends meet by doing ordinary PI work and teaching his skills to a small but eclectic group of enthusiastic and dedicated night school students.
During one of his classes, a stranger appears. Kierce is stunned how much she resembles Anna, a beautiful woman he met in Spain, with the potential for him to be desperately in love. The problem is, Anna is dead, having been murdered in their bed 22 years earlier.
When recognition is in his eyes, Anna turns and runs, with Kierce in hot pursuit. That is where the fun begins.
Unable to catch her, Sami tracks her to a tightly-guarded compound.
With a history of exes being killed, Sami is in overdrive to solve the mystery that is Anna. He recruits the most elite of his students to help.
What follows is a tight, intriguing, and fast-paced read that connects murders and their perpetrators, families of inordinate wealth and power, and an all-but-forgotten kidnapping. With stunning revelations, it explores the question of what we would do to protect those we love the most.
Exciting, and with a twisting plot that is impossible to predict, Nobody’s Fool is a great thriller!
I am hooked. I look forward to the next in Coben’s Sami Kierce series.
Nobody’s Fool
Harlan Coben
Grand Central Publishing 2025
332 pages
J Curran
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