Nobody’s fool. Harlan Coben. 2025.

Sami Kielce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There’s a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He begins to scream - and then he runs.

Twenty-two years later, Kierce is now a private investigator and also a new father, working off his debts by teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York City. One evening, he recognises a familiar face at the back of the classroom. Anna. It’s unmistakably her. But as soon as he makes eye contact with her, she bolts.

For Kierce there is no choice. He knows he must find this woman and solve the impossible mystery that has haunted his every waking moment since that terrible day.