Can’t anybody come up with an original title anymore? Nobody’s Fool has been used so many times—books, movies, songs—you’d think there was a moratorium on it. Anyway…
The cover is a little annoying. The massive yellow font announcing HARLAN COBEN devours most of the real estate, and then NOBODY’S FOOL devours what’s left. Hidden behind the billboard-sized lettering is a moody aerial image: a woman walking into a house while a man lurks on the street, lit by eerie green light. There’s definitely suspense, but it takes some squinting to get there.
It’s a cover with atmosphere, but also one that feels almost too safe—like it’s been engineered to fit perfectly into the Thriller shelf algorithm. Nothing truly grabs us unless we work for it.
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ (2/5)
Based on the Cover, We Think This Book Is About…
A woman accidentally humiliates the wrong guy—someone who isn’t too bright, but just clever enough to start ruining her life in slow, sinister ways.
Twenty-two years after waking up next to his girlfriend’s dead body in Spain—with no memory of what happened—private investigator Sami Kierce spots someone in his night school class he never expected to see: Anna, the woman he thought he killed. As Kierce dives into the mystery that shattered his past, he must uncover the truth about what really happened that night… and why Anna has returned.