Harlan Coben

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1,008 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 2 Jul

Harlan Coben’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · Rosebud in NYC - Harlan Coben · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

You know, I've done surveys of writers, informal ones, and I would say 65% do not know the ending and 35% to 40, somewhere in there, do know the ending.

I always know the ending.

So I start with some really, I know that weird twist beginning.

If you watch, say, Fool Me Once on Netflix, and in the beginning of it, Michelle Keegan plays the role of Maya Stern, and her husband had just been murdered, and she puts a nanny cam to watch her child, and one day she comes home and looks at the nanny cam, and she sees him playing with a man from the back, and the man turns around, and it's her dead husband.

And that was the opening hook.

I'm like, wow, I love this opening hook.

I know the answer before I start.

I know, is it really the husband?

What happened?

I know that answer.

I don't know anything in the middle.

I know the beginning.

I know the middle.

I compare it to driving from where we are right now in New York City to LA.

I may take Route 80.

Chances are I'll go via the Suez Canal or stop in Tokyo, but at least I know I'm going to end up in L.A.