Thus far, Tell No One has been a very good book. It is a very interesting story. It is about Dr. David Beck, who has been recovering from the murder of his wife for the past eight years. His wife, Elizabeth, was murdered eight years ago at lake in the middle of the night while Beck was sleeping. The murder was assumed to be done by the serial killer KillRoy. This was assumed because of a letter "K" branded on Elizabeth's cheek. However, Dr. Beck, eight years later, receives an e-mail that contains a link. The link is to a street camera in a large city. When Beck opens this link at the appropriate time, he sees his wife, whom he thought was deceased. Beck isn't really sure whats going on because there is no way that Elizabeth could be alive. He believes this because he attended her funeral eight years ago and watched her be buried. However, he does begin to question whether or not she could be alive because, one, he never identified her, and, two, it was a closed casket funeral. This leaves Beck with the thought that the could've buried someone other than his wife, and his beloved Elizabeth could still be alive. Also, a man named Vic Letty, who had a scam involving blackmailing people, was just murdered by a large man. I'm not really sure what that was all about, and, quite frankly, it was a little bizarre because, as far as I can tell at this point in time, it has absolutely nothing to do with Beck or the rest of the story.
Chapter seven opens with the Scope family being introduced. We find that Griffin Scope hired Larry Gandle to kill Vic Letty, who had set up a member of the Scope Family in one of his scams. In this chapter Larry talks with Mr. Scope, and we find that they are somehow connected with the murder of the late Elizabeth Beck. The two men are worried because some evidence of the crime has recently been discovered. After reading their conversation it would lead one to believe that the assassination of Elizabeth was the job of Larry Gandle and not KillRoy. Gandle learns that Beck is being investigated for the murder and that he has been doing some investigating of his own. Larry decides to wire tap his Beck's computer and have his freakishly large assistant, Eric Wu, track his every move. Since Wu has killed many people with just his hands and seems to enjoy it, I believe that it would be best for Mr. Beck to stay out of Wu's way. At the end of this section of the book, Beck visits Elizabeth's old best friend,Rebecca Schayes, who is a photographer in New York. He questions her about some pictures of Elizabeth that have recently been discovered, but she says she didn't take them. However, she remembers when Elizabeth had the bruises and told her not to tell Beck. This is all kind of confusing, but you can tell it is leading up to something big. So far it is a great book, and hard to put down.
This section of the book starts out with special agents Nick Carlson and Tom Stone questioning Elizabeth's father, Hoyt Parker. They ask him if Beck was a violent man and if he ever beat up Elizabeth. Hoyt tells them that he is confident that Beck never layed a violent hand on Elizabeth. Beck has been shown photos of Elizabeth with bruises all over and he is unsure of where she got them. He remembers that she was in a car accident while he was gone, but he didn't remember her having those bruises. I highly doubt it was a car accident that gave her those bruises because, if it was, she wouldnt hide that from him, and, also, Beck never received anything from insurance or any papers that would come with a car accident. Beck decides to do some investigating of his own. He looks through some of Elizabeth's old stuff and finds the initials P.F. on the last page of one of her journals. He finds out that the initials stand for Peter Flannery, who is an attorney in the city. Elizabeth Schayes is also murdered by Eric Wu in this section of the book. This happens not too long after Beck visits her for the first time in eight years. I think this murder will also be pinned on Beck because it would look suspicious to me if I believed that Beck had killed Elizabeth. At the end of this section Beck figures out that the words "Bat Street" and "Teenage" are code words for his username and password. He logs in to his account at a Kinko's store and finds that Elizabeth wants to meet him at the park the next day. This book is getting really good. I have a feeling there are some more twists coming, otherwise there wouldn't be 220 pages left.
Chapter 21 starts off with Beck making a visit to the Sussex County coroner's office. This was the place that the county medical examiner, Dr. Harper, had examined what was assumed for eight years to be Elizabeth's body. Beck describes the place as somewhat like a DMV office. Beck questions Dr. Harper for awhile about what Elizabeth looked like, how long it took Hoyt Parker to identify the body, and if he could see the autopsy report and pictures. In the end he tells Dr. Harper that he'll be back the next morning to pick up the report. Chapter 22 begins with the police investigating the Rebecca Schayes murder. They find that Beck had visited Rebecca that day and go to Linda and Shauna's apartment to ask them some questions. However, Shauna does not let them in. Instead, she gives them Hester Crimstein's, their attorney, number. Later in the chapter, the police go to investigate Beck's house. While there, they find that the place has already been wire tapped, which was odd. They also find a pair of latex gloves and a recently fired nine-millimeter gun, the same type of gun that killed Rebecca Schayes. Chapter 23 starts out talking about a man named Tyrese whose son Dr. Beck had taken care of. Tyrese was a known drug dealer in the city. I'm not really sure why this is mentioned, but I have a feeling Tyrese will have a larger part later in the story. Also in this chapter, the police tell Hester Crimstein that they are going to arrest Beck for the murder of Rebecca Schayes. When Hester tells Beck that he is going to be arrested he asks how long it would be until he could get bail. She tells him no earlier than midnight. This is a problem for Beck because this would mean that he would miss his meeting with Rebecca. Beck decides that he can't miss it, and does something he never envisioned himself doing, he runs from the police. He goes out the back way of his office and runs through downtown. He is later found by a young policeman, but he assaults him and continues to run. In the next chapter, Hester is upset that Beck ran because it would ruin her reputation with the D.A. She decides to quit as Beck's attorney. Beck continues to run and eventually finds himself paying twenty dollars to an old woman to use her phone. He calls the only person he knew that could help him in this situation, Tyrese. Tyrese has some of his boys create a distraction for the police, and he and his large friend, Brutus, go to pick up Beck. Tyrese takes him to his place and cleans Beck up. He also gives Beck a disguise and a glock.
This section of the book starts off with Eric Wu and Larry Gandle talking in Washington Square Park. They were tipped off that Beck would be headed there by a man who saw Beck's screen at Kinko's. This is the first time in the book that Wu shows any sign of a personal life or a past. He does this by talking about The Hangman's Elm. He says that his mother was whipped and then hung from one when he was younger. Tyrese and Brutus then drop Beck off at the park. However, Elizabeth has seen Wu, Gandle, and their men, and decides she can't go for Beck's, and her own, safety. Beck does not know this, so he sits and waits in the park for two hours. He eventually decides to leave, but while he is leaving Wu grabs him and puts him in a white van. They start driving while Wu questions and tortures Beck. Beck is in excruciating pain when Brutus stops the van, and he and Tyrese come with glocks and save Beck. After Beck is saved, he calls Shauna and tells her to take his dog for a walk. I'm not really sure what that is all about, but I think it must be significant, otherwise, Mr. Coben wouldn't have included it in the book. Beck then visits Peter Flannery to figure out why his wife visited him. While there he finds some disturbing news. Flannery says that she gave his client, Helio Gonzalez, an alibi in the Brandon Scope homicide case. He tells Beck that the alibi was that she was with Gonzalez at the time of the murder. He also tells Beck that Elizabeth had been sleeping with Gonzalez for over two months. However, Beck is unphased by the news of Elizabeth cheating on him because he positive that it isn't true.
This part of the book is where everything starts coming together a little bit and the reader starts getting some answers. However, it still is very exciting and has unexpected twists, making it impossible to put the book down. It starts with Elizabeth waiting at the airport for her plane departure. She is flying out of the country without Beck because she has decided she can't stay or meet with him for their own safety. However, she can't bring herself to leave until she knows Beck is safe. Also, in this part of the book inspector Carlson is beginning to doubt that Beck had murdered Rebecca Schayes, which was the murder he was being arrested for. He begins to doubt this because it just doesn't add up that if Beck had killed Elizabeth and kept it secret for eight years, he wouldn't leave all of the obvious evidence behind, had he been Rebecca Schayes murderer. He makes a visit to Shauna and tells her that he doesn't think Beck killed Rebecca. After hearing all of his reasons and adding it all up, Shauna, who was previously doubtful that Elizabeth was still alive and thought it was all a hoax, starts to believe that this all might really be happening. Meanwhile, Beck is with Tyrese, and he calls Hester Crimstein and tells her that he can prove that he didn't murder Rebecca Schayes. Hester agrees to help him. The book then switches to a conversation between Griffin Scope and Larry Gandle talking about how Griffin wanted revenge on Elizabeth for taking his whole world, Brandon Scope, away from him.
Chapter 40 starts off with Shauna going to work, for the first time in this entire story. When she gets there, her agent is unhappy because she does not have any makeup on and does not look good. While there, she gets a letter marked "urgent". She opens it and it tells her to go to the bathroom. When she went to the bathroom, Elizabeth was there waiting for her. I think this was supposed to be surprising in the book, but, for some reason, I had a feeling that the letter was from Elizabeth. While in the bathroom Shauna convinces Elizabeth that she can't leave Beck again because she had already killed him when she left the first time. Elizabeth then tells Shauna to tell Beck to meet her at the dolphins, which we find out is a cabin by Lake Charmaine. In chapter 40, we find out many pieces of information that help put the story together. In this chapter, Beck visits Hoyt Parker, and tells him that he knows Elizabeth is alive. Beck holds a gun to Beck, but eventually can't shoot him and begins to tell Beck what he knows. He says that Elizabeth shot Brandon Scope out of self defense. He said it was self defense because Brandon had been beating her. However, for some reason, Beck does not believe that Elizabeth shot Scope. Also, Hoyt tells Beck that Elizabeth saved the pictures and gun because she wanted there to be evidence of everything that had happened. In the next chapter, Eric Wu discovers Tyrese. He tells Tyrese that if Tyrese doesn't give him some answers, about Beck's whereabouts, TJ, Tyrese's son, will be in danger. Also in this chapter, Beck discovers that Melvin Bartola, one of the bodies that had been dug up, witnessed Beck's father's death. Beck finds that his father's death had not been an accident. In chapter 43, Beck goes to the cabin by Lake Charmaine. While there, he meets some crazy guy that claims to be the boogie man Beck and his sister used to talk about. This guy tells him that he was the one who saved Beck the night Elizabeth was abducted. He also was the one who called the police that night. Beck then met Elizabeth for the first time in eight years. Even though he wanted so bad for this meeting to be true, he still couldn't believe that Elizabeth was standing there. They held eachother tight, and Beck made Elizabeth promise she would never leave again. In chapter 44, we learn a lot of new information that helps us put the story together. Beck visits Hoyt Parker again. When he gets there Beck is sitting in his car, drunk, with a gun on his lap. Beck begins talking to him and says that he knows Elizabeth didn't kill Brandon Scope. Hoyt says that he knows, and admits to killing Scope. He then tells him that, he to, was on the Scope's payroll, and that he was responsible for his best friend's, Beck's father's, death. Hoyt also confesses to what really happened that night at the lake. He admits to killing the two men, and then making Elizabeth leave and making her promise to never come back. Beck then tells Hoyt to call Griffin Scope, and tell him that, if they release TJ, he will deliver Beck to them. Scope agrees, and they release TJ. When Beck and Hoyt arrive at the Scope mansion, the car is surrounded. Hoyt tells them that Elizabeth did not kill Brandon Scope, and that Beck had. However, the car had been bugged, and Scope had already heard Hoyt confess to killing Brandon Scope. Wu then comes over and punches Hoyt in the stomach. The F.B.I. then comes flying in, and stops everything. This was all part of Hoyt's plan. He knew the car would be bugged. This is why he stopped Beck from talking, and confessed to murdering Brandon Scope. In the end, Hoyt kills Griffin Scope, and then himself. He sacrificed himself for Beck and his family, because he was trying to redeem himself for all the wrong he had done in his life. He died a hero. Four days later, they buried Hoyt. We then find that Beck was the one who actually murdered Brandon Scope. Scope had came into Beck's house, but Beck was the only one home. They struggled with eachother for awhile, and Beck eventually reached his father's gun, and killed Brandon Scope. Hoyt Parker knew this, that is why he stopped Beck from admitting it in the car. I loved reading this book because it was very suspensful, and hard to put down. I would definetley put it in my top three favorite books of all time. Possibly even number one.
Didn't the passage of background information say that Antigone was a victim of Creon's hubris? Some of you are suggesting that Antigone is the tragic hero. Thoughts on that.
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Tell No One - Chapters 1-6
Thus far, Tell No One has been a very good book. It is a very interesting story. It is about Dr. David Beck, who has been recovering from the murder of his wife for the past eight years. His wife, Elizabeth, was murdered eight years ago at lake in the middle of the night while Beck was sleeping. The murder was assumed to be done by the serial killer KillRoy. This was assumed because of a letter "K" branded on Elizabeth's cheek. However, Dr. Beck, eight years later, receives an e-mail that contains a link. The link is to a street camera in a large city. When Beck opens this link at the appropriate time, he sees his wife, whom he thought was deceased. Beck isn't really sure whats going on because there is no way that Elizabeth could be alive. He believes this because he attended her funeral eight years ago and watched her be buried. However, he does begin to question whether or not she could be alive because, one, he never identified her, and, two, it was a closed casket funeral. This leaves Beck with the thought that the could've buried someone other than his wife, and his beloved Elizabeth could still be alive.
Also, a man named Vic Letty, who had a scam involving blackmailing people, was just murdered by a large man. I'm not really sure what that was all about, and, quite frankly, it was a little bizarre because, as far as I can tell at this point in time, it has absolutely nothing to do with Beck or the rest of the story.
Tell No One - Chapters 7-12
Chapter seven opens with the Scope family being introduced. We find that Griffin Scope hired Larry Gandle to kill Vic Letty, who had set up a member of the Scope Family in one of his scams. In this chapter Larry talks with Mr. Scope, and we find that they are somehow connected with the murder of the late Elizabeth Beck. The two men are worried because some evidence of the crime has recently been discovered. After reading their conversation it would lead one to believe that the assassination of Elizabeth was the job of Larry Gandle and not KillRoy.
Gandle learns that Beck is being investigated for the murder and that he has been doing some investigating of his own. Larry decides to wire tap his Beck's computer and have his freakishly large assistant, Eric Wu, track his every move. Since Wu has killed many people with just his hands and seems to enjoy it, I believe that it would be best for Mr. Beck to stay out of Wu's way. At the end of this section of the book, Beck visits Elizabeth's old best friend,Rebecca Schayes, who is a photographer in New York. He questions her about some pictures of Elizabeth that have recently been discovered, but she says she didn't take them. However, she remembers when Elizabeth had the bruises and told her not to tell Beck.
This is all kind of confusing, but you can tell it is leading up to something big. So far it is a great book, and hard to put down.
Tell No One - Chapters 13-20
This section of the book starts out with special agents Nick Carlson and Tom Stone questioning Elizabeth's father, Hoyt Parker. They ask him if Beck was a violent man and if he ever beat up Elizabeth. Hoyt tells them that he is confident that Beck never layed a violent hand on Elizabeth.
Beck has been shown photos of Elizabeth with bruises all over and he is unsure of where she got them. He remembers that she was in a car accident while he was gone, but he didn't remember her having those bruises. I highly doubt it was a car accident that gave her those bruises because, if it was, she wouldnt hide that from him, and, also, Beck never received anything from insurance or any papers that would come with a car accident.
Beck decides to do some investigating of his own. He looks through some of Elizabeth's old stuff and finds the initials P.F. on the last page of one of her journals. He finds out that the initials stand for Peter Flannery, who is an attorney in the city.
Elizabeth Schayes is also murdered by Eric Wu in this section of the book. This happens not too long after Beck visits her for the first time in eight years. I think this murder will also be pinned on Beck because it would look suspicious to me if I believed that Beck had killed Elizabeth.
At the end of this section Beck figures out that the words "Bat Street" and "Teenage" are code words for his username and password. He logs in to his account at a Kinko's store and finds that Elizabeth wants to meet him at the park the next day.
This book is getting really good. I have a feeling there are some more twists coming, otherwise there wouldn't be 220 pages left.
Tell No One - Chapters 21-26
Chapter 21 starts off with Beck making a visit to the Sussex County coroner's office. This was the place that the county medical examiner, Dr. Harper, had examined what was assumed for eight years to be Elizabeth's body. Beck describes the place as somewhat like a DMV office. Beck questions Dr. Harper for awhile about what Elizabeth looked like, how long it took Hoyt Parker to identify the body, and if he could see the autopsy report and pictures. In the end he tells Dr. Harper that he'll be back the next morning to pick up the report.
Chapter 22 begins with the police investigating the Rebecca Schayes murder. They find that Beck had visited Rebecca that day and go to Linda and Shauna's apartment to ask them some questions. However, Shauna does not let them in. Instead, she gives them Hester Crimstein's, their attorney, number.
Later in the chapter, the police go to investigate Beck's house. While there, they find that the place has already been wire tapped, which was odd. They also find a pair of latex gloves and a recently fired nine-millimeter gun, the same type of gun that killed Rebecca Schayes.
Chapter 23 starts out talking about a man named Tyrese whose son Dr. Beck had taken care of. Tyrese was a known drug dealer in the city. I'm not really sure why this is mentioned, but I have a feeling Tyrese will have a larger part later in the story. Also in this chapter, the police tell Hester Crimstein that they are going to arrest Beck for the murder of Rebecca Schayes.
When Hester tells Beck that he is going to be arrested he asks how long it would be until he could get bail. She tells him no earlier than midnight. This is a problem for Beck because this would mean that he would miss his meeting with Rebecca. Beck decides that he can't miss it, and does something he never envisioned himself doing, he runs from the police. He goes out the back way of his office and runs through downtown. He is later found by a young policeman, but he assaults him and continues to run.
In the next chapter, Hester is upset that Beck ran because it would ruin her reputation with the D.A. She decides to quit as Beck's attorney. Beck continues to run and eventually finds himself paying twenty dollars to an old woman to use her phone. He calls the only person he knew that could help him in this situation, Tyrese.
Tyrese has some of his boys create a distraction for the police, and he and his large friend, Brutus, go to pick up Beck. Tyrese takes him to his place and cleans Beck up. He also gives Beck a disguise and a glock.
Tell No One - Chapters 27-33
This section of the book starts off with Eric Wu and Larry Gandle talking in Washington Square Park. They were tipped off that Beck would be headed there by a man who saw Beck's screen at Kinko's. This is the first time in the book that Wu shows any sign of a personal life or a past. He does this by talking about The Hangman's Elm. He says that his mother was whipped and then hung from one when he was younger.
Tyrese and Brutus then drop Beck off at the park. However, Elizabeth has seen Wu, Gandle, and their men, and decides she can't go for Beck's, and her own, safety. Beck does not know this, so he sits and waits in the park for two hours. He eventually decides to leave, but while he is leaving Wu grabs him and puts him in a white van. They start driving while Wu questions and tortures Beck. Beck is in excruciating pain when Brutus stops the van, and he and Tyrese come with glocks and save Beck.
After Beck is saved, he calls Shauna and tells her to take his dog for a walk. I'm not really sure what that is all about, but I think it must be significant, otherwise, Mr. Coben wouldn't have included it in the book.
Beck then visits Peter Flannery to figure out why his wife visited him. While there he finds some disturbing news. Flannery says that she gave his client, Helio Gonzalez, an alibi in the Brandon Scope homicide case. He tells Beck that the alibi was that she was with Gonzalez at the time of the murder. He also tells Beck that Elizabeth had been sleeping with Gonzalez for over two months. However, Beck is unphased by the news of Elizabeth cheating on him because he positive that it isn't true.
Tell No One - Chapters 34-39
This part of the book is where everything starts coming together a little bit and the reader starts getting some answers. However, it still is very exciting and has unexpected twists, making it impossible to put the book down. It starts with Elizabeth waiting at the airport for her plane departure. She is flying out of the country without Beck because she has decided she can't stay or meet with him for their own safety. However, she can't bring herself to leave until she knows Beck is safe.
Also, in this part of the book inspector Carlson is beginning to doubt that Beck had murdered Rebecca Schayes, which was the murder he was being arrested for. He begins to doubt this because it just doesn't add up that if Beck had killed Elizabeth and kept it secret for eight years, he wouldn't leave all of the obvious evidence behind, had he been Rebecca Schayes murderer.
He makes a visit to Shauna and tells her that he doesn't think Beck killed Rebecca. After hearing all of his reasons and adding it all up, Shauna, who was previously doubtful that Elizabeth was still alive and thought it was all a hoax, starts to believe that this all might really be happening.
Meanwhile, Beck is with Tyrese, and he calls Hester Crimstein and tells her that he can prove that he didn't murder Rebecca Schayes. Hester agrees to help him.
The book then switches to a conversation between Griffin Scope and Larry Gandle talking about how Griffin wanted revenge on Elizabeth for taking his whole world, Brandon Scope, away from him.
Tell No One - Chapters 40-46
Chapter 40 starts off with Shauna going to work, for the first time in this entire story. When she gets there, her agent is unhappy because she does not have any makeup on and does not look good. While there, she gets a letter marked "urgent". She opens it and it tells her to go to the bathroom. When she went to the bathroom, Elizabeth was there waiting for her. I think this was supposed to be surprising in the book, but, for some reason, I had a feeling that the letter was from Elizabeth. While in the bathroom Shauna convinces Elizabeth that she can't leave Beck again because she had already killed him when she left the first time. Elizabeth then tells Shauna to tell Beck to meet her at the dolphins, which we find out is a cabin by Lake Charmaine.
In chapter 40, we find out many pieces of information that help put the story together. In this chapter, Beck visits Hoyt Parker, and tells him that he knows Elizabeth is alive. Beck holds a gun to Beck, but eventually can't shoot him and begins to tell Beck what he knows. He says that Elizabeth shot Brandon Scope out of self defense. He said it was self defense because Brandon had been beating her. However, for some reason, Beck does not believe that Elizabeth shot Scope. Also, Hoyt tells Beck that Elizabeth saved the pictures and gun because she wanted there to be evidence of everything that had happened.
In the next chapter, Eric Wu discovers Tyrese. He tells Tyrese that if Tyrese doesn't give him some answers, about Beck's whereabouts, TJ, Tyrese's son, will be in danger. Also in this chapter, Beck discovers that Melvin Bartola, one of the bodies that had been dug up, witnessed Beck's father's death. Beck finds that his father's death had not been an accident.
In chapter 43, Beck goes to the cabin by Lake Charmaine. While there, he meets some crazy guy that claims to be the boogie man Beck and his sister used to talk about. This guy tells him that he was the one who saved Beck the night Elizabeth was abducted. He also was the one who called the police that night.
Beck then met Elizabeth for the first time in eight years. Even though he wanted so bad for this meeting to be true, he still couldn't believe that Elizabeth was standing there. They held eachother tight, and Beck made Elizabeth promise she would never leave again.
In chapter 44, we learn a lot of new information that helps us put the story together. Beck visits Hoyt Parker again. When he gets there Beck is sitting in his car, drunk, with a gun on his lap. Beck begins talking to him and says that he knows Elizabeth didn't kill Brandon Scope. Hoyt says that he knows, and admits to killing Scope. He then tells him that, he to, was on the Scope's payroll, and that he was responsible for his best friend's, Beck's father's, death. Hoyt also confesses to what really happened that night at the lake. He admits to killing the two men, and then making Elizabeth leave and making her promise to never come back. Beck then tells Hoyt to call Griffin Scope, and tell him that, if they release TJ, he will deliver Beck to them. Scope agrees, and they release TJ.
When Beck and Hoyt arrive at the Scope mansion, the car is surrounded. Hoyt tells them that Elizabeth did not kill Brandon Scope, and that Beck had. However, the car had been bugged, and Scope had already heard Hoyt confess to killing Brandon Scope. Wu then comes over and punches Hoyt in the stomach. The F.B.I. then comes flying in, and stops everything. This was all part of Hoyt's plan. He knew the car would be bugged. This is why he stopped Beck from talking, and confessed to murdering Brandon Scope. In the end, Hoyt kills Griffin Scope, and then himself. He sacrificed himself for Beck and his family, because he was trying to redeem himself for all the wrong he had done in his life. He died a hero.
Four days later, they buried Hoyt. We then find that Beck was the one who actually murdered Brandon Scope. Scope had came into Beck's house, but Beck was the only one home. They struggled with eachother for awhile, and Beck eventually reached his father's gun, and killed Brandon Scope. Hoyt Parker knew this, that is why he stopped Beck from admitting it in the car.
I loved reading this book because it was very suspensful, and hard to put down. I would definetley put it in my top three favorite books of all time. Possibly even number one.
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