Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben

How do you not read this book? Two fan favorites in one! ~Sheila

Maggie McCabe has been to the top of the mountain with an incredible career as a highly skilled surgeon – living by her rules …
Until one day, she wasn’t.
When life takes a turn, Maggie’s time on the mountain is now a landslide of having her medical license revoked, more debt than she can dig herself out of, and a low that she has never experienced before.
When a plastic surgeon/old colleague connects her to an elite group who value her skills, offering Maggie a chance to not only clear all her debt, but have more money than she has ever had, it is impossible to pass on the offer. This is her olive branch, and she has to take it. All she has to do is keep everything quiet – she can not tell friends or family where she is going or what she is doing.
Halfway across the globe, Maggie enters a state-of-the-art personal hospital room for her to use and a world of insane luxury she could have only imagined. Maggie fully plans to uphold her end of the agreement – but when the patient she is working on disappears, and Maggie finds things are not adding up and she is now on the run.

Photo from the Book Expo In New York
You all know I have a soft spot for Harlan… for that matter, Reese as well. Finding these two writing a book together… BRILLIANT.

I listened to this one on audio and enjoyed a different spin on a thriller that had a medical background. I enjoyed Reese’s narration and found the storyline to be unlike anything I have read/listened to.
I was engaged all the way through – admittedly not my favorite ending nor my favorite setting … but again…
It’s Harlan and it’s Reese!!!!

Little background if you are not familiar with Harlan Coben – first, he usually writes alone. I have been reading him since my 20s, and one of the few authors I can say that I have always enjoyed. I refer to him as a lighter version of Dean Koontz.
What I love about this author is that I have read him for 3 decades, and to see his Netflix movies based on his books is so exciting – AND a True Crime CBS Series that will launch on January 7th called Final Twist.

https://youtu.be/EXNOkyYfupI

Rated: 3.75 out of 5
Read Author Before: Yes!
Read Author Again: Yes

8 thoughts on “Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben

  1. I’ve never read him, but I did watch the Netflix show about the kid who’s dad disappeared after a car accident. I was bummed that Netflix canceled it.

  2. yes, thank you! i wondered if i was a bit off with my review (giving it 3.5 stars). and yes, i’m a fan of both, read a number of his books and thought i knew his writing style. so, really, i thought this book more Harlan than Reese, but then we have no experience with her writing style (only her recommendations and a couple of those have been clunkers). but such a surprising collaboration–those two.

    1. I agree – admittedly I have some grace knowing it was the first time combo on a book – I can only imagine how hard that must be to make a vision mesh….
      I found the storyline to be very different so I was thinking that was Reese…. the names though…. Porkchop? That sounds like Harlan 😀

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