Finished: The Stranger (Coben) Hmm, well I normally love my Harlan Coben books, and this one was another page-turner, but I wasn't pleased with the ending! Anyway, I'm sure I'll continue to read every Harlan Coben book that comes out. This one was about a married couple,  Adam and Corrinne Price, living the "American Dream" in a small New York town with their two teenage boys. One day a stranger approaches Adam and tells him that his wife faked her third pregnancy and miscarriage two years before and there is proof on a website of her purchase of fake pregnancy stomachs, ultrasound, pregnancy test, etc. When Adam confronts his wife, she panics and disappears asking for some time before she explains. In the meantime, the stranger approaches other people...a mom whose college daughter is prostituting herself for tuition...a father whose football star son has begun taking steroids right before recruitment, etc. Adam and the boys get increasingly worried about Corrinne. With the help of a police chief friend of the now murdered mother of the college prostitute, Adam uncovers the blackmailing group that the stranger belongs to...and it turns out....they have no idea where Corrinne is. Instead, Corrinne has been set up by a family friend and co-lacrosse board member, Tripp Evans. It turns out that Tripp is in dire straights for money and he sets it up to look like Corrinne embezzled money from the lacrosse organization. He even hired the stranger's company to find out something about Corrinne's past to blackmail her with. In the end, it ends up that Tripp has, in fact, killed Corrinne and buried her in the woods. It's so sad. :-( Usually the protagonist ends up saving the day in the Harlan Coben books, but this one left a husband in shock and two teenage boys who adored their mom motherless. Oh, and there was the weak explanation that Corrinne faked that pregnancy two years before because she felt her marriage was slipping away, when it reality it was not! Sigh, just a bit disappointed. I always look forward to the HC books coming out!