Nobody’s Fool follows Sami Kierce, the detective from Fool Me Once. I loved Fool Me Once, so I was pretty ecstatic to get accepted for Nobody’s Fool on Netgalley.
I felt like this story was doing too much. There are so many mysteries that are somehow all connected and it took way too long for me to get invested in the story. The thoughts that go through Kierce’s head and the things he says makes me feel like he’s supposed to be this funny guy, but it was weird and irritating.
I hate that this book didn’t hit the mark for me, but I will still continue to read Coben’s work!

Harken Cobden never disappoints. Nobody’s Fool kept me guessing until the very end! It kept me engaged and wanting me to read more. I thought that I had it figured out several times, but no, it ended with a twist that I did not see coming! It is a must read for mystery/thriller readers!

Book #2 in Sami Kierce series. I haven't read the first book (but LOVED the Netflix series) and I have already added the book to my TBR list. The plot is full of shocking twists and thrills. This is my first by Harlan Coben, but certainly not my last. The story wrapped up nicely at the ending, but there is a cliffhanger which hopefully means another book. It's not a cliffhanger that leaves you frustrated as the plot is wrapped up nicely. But more of one that makes you excited for a future release.

Thanks to NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing for a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Another tightly woven pack thriller packed with Harlan Coben’s trademark humour. I devoured this in one hit as former detective Sami Kierce wrestles with two traumatic pieces of his past come back to haunt him.

Well paced and plotted, I love how this book seamlessly blends the characters. Sami is Pakistani-American, at a low point after leaving the police force in disgrace, yet he's as upbeat as he can be, a devoted husband and father who really cares about finding the truth. I love his relationship with Molly.

That little cliffhanger ending? OMG more please!

Thanks to Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for the ARC.

Harlan Coben does it again. This book is so good I couldn't put it down. The characters will draw you in and you won't be able to stop reading. Definitely one to put on your to read list!

This book was a solid 4 stars for me. It took a long time to even understand how this was considered a sequel but I guess it makes sense. I felt as though there was a lot of unnecessary plot writing. The whole Tad Greyson plot line was pretty pointless in my opinion so it got a little boring in the middle. Even so, we weren’t really given the whole picture/backstory of that.

I did like Kierce’s internal dialogue, it actually made me like his character considering he was just a side character in the first book. Molly seems like a gem, I wouldn’t be able to just never ask questions about my husbands whereabouts and the case he was working on so their relationship was a little to fairytale to me.

I’m interested to find out if there will be a third installment to this series but I was satisfied with letting the reader decide their own ending.

Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for this ARC.

Note to Publisher:
Also, I caught several spelling errors that can easily be fixed. I took photos of those if interested! (I didn’t keep record on the last ARC I read so wasn’t able to show the publisher, therefore took photos this time).

I really enjoyed this book it’s part of a series but I read it as a stand alone and had no problem. It was an entertaining police/detective mystery thriller. The student side characters really added to the book and made it more interesting. I can easily see this as Netflix show. Fast, enjoyable read!

Another winner from Coben. Readers may remember former Detective Sami Kierce from the novel Fool Me Once or from the Netflix series of the same name. Twenty-five years ago Kierce was a college student who met Anna, a woman who bewitched him over the course of a week while spending the summer in Spain. And then he woke up covered in blood with her body beside him. Flash forward to the present when Anna suddenly appears in the night class Kierce is teaching. What’s going on?

I liked Kierce in Fool Me Once and was glad to see he was the MC in this novel. He may be a disgraced detective, but the instincts are still there and rarely wrong. His career may have derailed, but his personal life is perfect – he has a beautiful wife and is the father of a baby boy. He no longer has the support of the police force (with the exception of his former partner), but he puts together an unlikely team of colorful students to assist him with this mystery. I’m not sure who was surprised more by their cleverness and determination – me or Kierce – but they’re well-developed support characters who certainly add to the story.

Myron Bolitar fans (and I’m a big one!) will delight in a few Easter eggs scattered over the course of the novel. Unexpected twists and shocking turns go hand-in-hand with Coben novels. I had only a small part figured out by the big reveal at the end. A further surprise in the last paragraph leaves open the possibility of another novel featuring Kierce, and I’m here for it.

Recommended for readers who enjoy redemption stories, dizzying twists, and mysteries blended with dashes of humor.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Loved this book 📖 pulled me in from the beginning. Definitely 5 stars for me. Whoever is looking for a good thriller/mystery i highly recommend this one.

Harlan Coben is one of those authors that you just know will give you a great book and never disappoints. Nobody's Fool is no different and will having you turning the pages quickly.

The story starts off with Sami Kierce reliving a tragedy that happened 22 years ago when a woman named Anna died while he slept. The story fast forwards to Sami now teaching some late night class when Anna appears in his class and then takes off again. Sami goes on the hunt to find out if it was in fact Anna or not. This leads Sami down a fast paced action packed thriller that will lead you down paths that are completely unpredictable. The characters are well written and the story lines will flow even if there is a lot going on. You can't help but love his wife and his son that he dotes on and cares for deeply. There are a lot of things happening in this story and if I say too much it will give it away. But you definitely want to get this book and read it for yourself. While Sami is a reoccurring character you can read this as a stand alone story. YOU.WILL.NOT.BE.DISAPPOINTED.

Thank you NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing for an ARC in return for an honest review. This book is scheduled to come out in March 2025 and it needs to be on your TBR list.

I have yet to read a bad Harlan Coben book, and I’m happy to report that streak remains unbroken. Nobody’s Fool is a sequel to Fool Me Once, which was adapted into a Netflix miniseries. However, let me assure you—it’s not necessary to read the first book to enjoy this one.
The novel follows Sami Kierce, a disgraced ex-police detective who is now struggling financially but finds fulfillment as a devoted husband to his wife, Molly, and father to their one-year-old son. To make ends meet, he works as a private investigator for a prestigious law firm while also teaching a criminology course in a rundown building to a group of quirky, amateur detectives. Despite his fall from grace, Sami maintains a relationship with his former partner, Marty, who still serves on the police force.
The story kicks off with a flashback to Sami’s past—25 years ago, before his planned future in medicine took a drastic turn. While backpacking across Europe before college, he had a brief but intense five-day romance with a woman named Anna in Spain. Their relationship ended abruptly (no spoilers!), altering the course of his life forever. Now, decades later, he swears he sees her peering into his classroom.
At the same time, the man convicted of killing Sami’s fiancée, Nicole, is being released from prison—an event tied to the very scandal that forced Sami off the force. His search for the mysterious woman leads him to the reclusive Ballard family and Victoria Ballard, a woman who vanished after a Y2K party and reappeared 11 years later, only to retreat into isolation.
Full of twists and turns, Nobody’s Fool kept me on my toes—I thought I had it figured out multiple times, only to be proven wrong again and again. It’s a fast-paced, gripping ride from start to finish.
Thank you to Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

True to form, Harlan Coben has delivered another page-turner with “Nobody’s Fool.” This one kept me reading late into the night, which was a surprise since the first book in the series, “Fool Me Once” wasn’t one of my favorites. I especially didn’t connect with the character of police detective Sami Kierce who seemed to be a bit of a side character.

This story takes place a year after the events in the previous book where we find that Sami has been ousted from the police force after being blamed for what happened and for his part in another tragedy. He has a new baby, a ton of debt and is cobbling together work to make ends meet.

In addition to private detective gigs, he is teaching a night class to a bunch of armchair detectives, who I believe need their own series. Together with this ragtag group, he endeavors to solve a decades old mystery that he may have had a part in. I definitely did not see where this was going to go, which I love.

In the end, Sami comes off as a “good” guy that does stupid things. That right there is what makes you want to root for him. Which I did all the way up to the last page. He has a ways to go until I love him like I love Myron and Win, but I’ll give the next book a shot, for sure!

***Also, I would like to note that although none of the characters have overlapped (yet), this series does take place in the world of the Myron Bolitar series as the Horne Lockwood building is mentioned.

Thank you to Grand Central Publishing and Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I didn't realize that Nobody's Fool was the second book in a series, however it touched on what happen in the previous book so I do not think I missed out on anything. This book started off pretty interesting, there was not a lot of action, but it made up for that with intrigue. Unfortunately about halfway through the book it really slowed down. I had to force myself to keep moving forward to finish the book. It did have an interesting twist at the end but did not make up for the boringness that was a large chunk of the book.

This was SO GOOD. I hope I don’t offend by saying my expectations were medium. I’ve been reading deep into Coben’s backlist and the most recent of his I read was from 1995. The 30-year jump in quality was stunning. He’s gotten nothing but better. I was in a book slump and this had me glued to my kindle late into the night.

I’d love for him to turn Sami Kierce and his criminology class into a series. Every member of the class was fantastic and I’m quite attached to Sami himself, along with Molly and Henry.

Thank you to NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing.
A year after the events in "Fool Me Once", Sami Kierce is back. No longer a police officer, he is now a private investigator and teacher. One night during his class, Sami sees someone at the back of his class that he thought was dead.
Harlan Coben's ability to create characters that we love despite their flaws is one of my favorite parts of his novels. The plot moves along at a thrilling pace with sharp turns and twists.
A very well done flow up novel.

Former New York detective Sami Pierce's past comes back to haunt him. Forced to resign in disgrace, Sami is now doing some freelance investigative work for a law firm and teaching an evening class for want to be sleuths when one night the woman he had met in Spain after graduating college - who he thought was murdered while sleeping next to him walks into his classroom. Sami gives chase only to be blocked by a formidable estate and security in Connecticut. It turns out that she is the daughter of a wealthy family who had disappeared for 11 years only to turn up with no memory of what had happened to her during those years. Then the man jailed for killing Sami's young policewoman fiancé is released from jail due to a technicality and even stranger things start happening. To top it off, Sami has married to the love of his life and has a young baby and now they feel threatened. So how can this all work out? With the help of his student sleuths, his ex-partner and his legal employer, Sami goes on a crusade to answer all of these questions. In perfect Harlan Coben precision, we are led on a wild ride in this amazingly engrossing adventure. Kudos to the master once again. I loved every second of this book. Thank you to NetGalley, Harlen Coben and Grand Central Publishing for the opportunity to reach this Advance Reader Copy of a book I just could not put down.

Following his college graduation, Sami Kierce sets out on a European tour with his friends. When he meets Anna in Spain, he tells his friends that he intends to stay with her. When he wakes up one morning next to her body, and he's covered in blood and holding a knife with no memory of what happened, he flees back to the US at his father's urging.

Over 20 years later, Anna, or someone closely resembling her, shows up at a class he is teaching then mysteriously disappears. Sami, who was dishonorably dismissed from the police force for not following rules and causing a death, seeks to find her, learn the truth about what happened 20 years ago, and solve a famous kidnapping case from the same era. To add to the complexity of the drama, the murderer of his fiancée was recently released from prison, after 18 years, because of a technicality. Investigating all of these seemingly unrelated events brings Sami's wife and child into danger, and brings Sami to a crossroads of what is moral and what is legal.

I can't think of anything that I didn't enjoy about this book. It is witty, suspenseful, and at time heart-wrenching.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

What a great mystery read. This is a sequel but reads as a stand alone which is good since I hadn't read the first book. Sami Kierce is a very unlucky detective who was disgraced during his time with the NYPD and now works for a law firm. He also teaches a night class is detective work with an interesting group of, dare I say, misfits.

Sami is teaching one of his night classes when a women from his past walks in, he recognizes her as a woman he had a five day affair with in Spain twenty-five years prior. Only, Sami thought this "Anna" was dead and that he was responsible. He's also dealing with the man convicted of killing his fiancé years earlier is being released on a technicality. There's a lot going on and Sami gets some of his students to help out solving both story lines.

I really enjoyed this book, it flowed wonderfully and at times had Sami talking directly to us, his readers. Sami is an enjoyable character as are many of the secondary characters.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

This is Harlan Coben at the top of his game. The plot, characters, twists, setting, atmosphere, all come together for a quick paced thriller that kept me hooked from start to finish.

Harlan Coban doesn't disappoint.

A former detective is shocked when a woman he'd known as a teenager and thought dead appears in his class for amateur sleuths. She disappears when she's recognized and, aided by his students, he is determined to find her and the mystery surrounding her.