Plot Twist
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Before opening this, what did you picture Harlan Coben was like as a person? Did the voice on the page match the voice in your head?
Was your first Coben a book, a Netflix binge, or this one? Tell us how he first showed up in your life.
He writes so much about ordinary suburban life before everything goes sideways. Which detail of that ordinary world felt most like the street you grew up on?
Which piece of his growing-up made you want to call someone from your own childhood? Who, and what would you say?
There is real tenderness in how he writes about the people who believed in him early. Who was that person for you, and did they ever know?
Reading about how he builds a character, did you feel let in on a secret or did a little of the magic go out of it for you? Be honest, there is no wrong answer here.
He is candid about the parts of a writing life that are not glamorous. Did any of that honesty land close to home with your own work or creative thing you keep meaning to do?
A person who writes about secrets for a living chooses what to reveal about himself. Where did you feel him being most generous with you, and where did you feel him gently keeping the door shut? How did that sit with you?