The Best Cliffhanger Endings of the Past 15 Years
Here
they are—the books that left us breathless in the last 50 pages. Some
are traditional thrillers, some whodunits and some roller-coaster novels. Which ones have you read?
By Dawn Raffel
2 of 17
Tell No One
By Harlan Coben
320 pages;
Dell
The Premise: The
thriller you might have missed. Good-guy doctor David Beck has been mourning
his wife's murder for the past eight years. But what if she's still alive? The
suspense encourages speed-reading, but the characters—a drug dealer
with a soft spot, a wisecracking lawyer, a kickass lesbian supermodel, a
billionaire with a taste for revenge—make you want to linger.
Why the Ending Is a Stunner:
Nonstop twists leave you too dizzy to guess the denouement. But damn if Coben
didn't drop a clue at the very beginning—and you missed it.
— Dawn Raffel
Published 11/16/2015
