My Favourite Author.

Well, favourite author? The truth is I don't read a lot. No kidding.
I watch movies. Hearing the language is definitely better than just reading it. Both can be equally exciting. You don't have to be a dictionary to understand a movie/TV show.
Just watch an English show, that cannot be as taxing as anything else. I am NOT discouraging you from reading. I am merely trying to say that watching English shows can be equally helpful sometimes. So why not give it a try?

So introducing my newest favourite author: Harlan Coben.

I recently picked up one of his books, "The Woods", at the library. The start of the novel was a little dry but the story slowly unfold into a compulsive page-turner.

Well here are some of the information I google-ed.

1)Harlan Coben is a past recipient of an Edgar Award, a Shamus Award, and an Anthony Award. In fact, Harlan Coben is the first writer ever to win all three of these awards.

Wow. Remarkable achievement isn't it.

2)Born in 1962 in Newark, New Jersey, but brought up and educated in Livingston, he graduated from Amherst College with a degree in political science. After working in the travel industry, he eventually turned to writing full time.

Who would have known that he as a budding writer during college in a political science class?

3)Harlan Coben published two stand-alone thrillers, Play Dead and Miracle Cure, while still in his twenties. But his true success came with the Myron Bolitar series of thrillers. The Myron Bolitar character is a former basketball player who becomes a sports agent and frequently finds himself having to investigate and solve murders involving his clients.

How many of us can publish two thrillers when we are only in our twenties?

4)Harlan Coben is a good friend of Dan Brown, the author of The DaVinci Code.

Hey, who knew that the "flair-for-writing" virus can be passed from person to person. I wish I had it.

5)The plots of his novel very often revolve around past events that have gone unresolved or have been misinterpreted, like murders and fatal accidents. Harlan Coben's novels are usually fairly complex and involve multiple plot twists.

Mystery stories never go out of style.

The book I fell in the love with is: "The Woods". Basically, it is amount a group of four people who ventured into the woods. Two of these people in the group were found dead with a slash on their throat. The other are still yet to be found.
The protagonist of the story, which is a County Prosecutor is the brother of one of these missing victims. He finds himself having to battle his emotions and confront the truth again when one of the other victim is found dead in his apartment.

Go get the book if you find it intriguing, I am not going to spoil it any further.