Finished: Win (Coben) Windsor Horne Lockwood III aka Win, is the best friend of detective Myron Bolitar, the main character of many of Harlan Coben's books. He's the rich, lethal, well-tailored, pretty boy who always has Myron's back, and has saved him several times when things looked bleak. He does so with witty repartee and cocky confidence. He's a great character who you really grow to love if you read the Myron Bolitar series. So, finally, he got his own story, and it's a great one! Win gets entangled in the mystery of what happened to the six young activists in the 60's who burned down a building that was supposed to be empty, but ended up causing some innocent bystander deaths. These activists are also tied to Win's own family when one of them is found murdered all these years later, and in his possession he's got the Vermeer painting stolen from Win's family years ago; as well as a briefcase that belongs to his cousin, Patricia, who had been kidnapped and raped while being held in what was known as the Hut of Horrors, where the remains of many other young women were found after she escaped her captors. Hints and clues take Win all over the place, particularly to his own family compound to talk to his father and see how he or his brother or their mother could have been involved in any of the mysteries. It's a page-turner that kept me reading, with a bit of a surprise ending. It left me hoping Coben writes more Win books. :-)
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