Review of Promise Me by Harlan Coben

Promise Me is the much anticipated return of the character of Myron Bolitar,the wise cractking Sports Agent created by Coben as an accidental private investigator who gets involved with his clients problems, helped alond the way by his psycho pal, Win and his wrestling secretary, Esperenza.
It’s been over 6 years since Coben has written a Bolitar mystery, he’s been busy writing stand alone novels which have managed to build up a very large fan base for him.
Most of these books have been very good and have been of the ‘twist in the tale’ type thriller which keeps most of us guessing until the end.
The new Bolitar mystery is more of the same, I suppose, although I thought it didn’t have quite enough meat to flesh the story out. Plus there wasn’t enough of psycho Win in it.
Interestingly, there is a crossover of a character from Coben’s previous book, the Innocent. The character of Loren Muse appears to investigate the disappearance of the daughter of one of Bolitar’s friends which provides the crux of the whole story. Bolitar becomes involved because he was apparently the last person to see her before she disappeared.
What follows is a neat tale of twists and turns, a small amount of violence and a whole lot of wisecracks from Bolitar.
On the whole, I would say that I wasn’t disappointed with Promise Me and that I would read any further instalments should they appear in time. 4/5.