Six Years - Harlan Coben

Title: Six Years
Author: Harlan Coben
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 301
Date read: January 2020

Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven’t come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd’s obituary, he can’t keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd’s wife he’s hoping for . . . but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, she’s been married to Todd for more than a decade, and with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life -- a time he has never gotten over -- is turned completely inside out.

As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can’t be found or don’t remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake’s search for the woman who broke his heart—and who lied to him—soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on carefully constructed fiction.


Not quite as good as "Missing You", but still well worth reading. My biggest problem with it, is that it's somewhat less believable. In "Missing You" the main character was at least a cop, so it made sense that she'd pursue the case. Here the main character was a university professor and it just seemed contrived.

But once I got past that, the plot itself was very interesting and I had no idea where things were heading for most of the book. Fortunately the end tied up all the threads very nicely and answered all my questions, so I wasn't left hanging.