Book Review: "Win" By Harlan Coben

A murdered recluse. A kidnapped and raped heiress. A stolen Picasso with an art heist. A guy named Win short for Windsor whose on this case to connect the dots since it's his family that's involved.

You may need to understand that Patricia Lockwood was abducted, sexually abused, and left for dead locked in this cabin twenty years ago during a botched robbery at her family's estate.

Fast forward to the current state of affairs when we stumble upon a dead man in NYC apartment with the goods taken from the estate and specifically this suitcase with initials upon them.

Fingers point, blame's extended, the mouse trap is set up to catch the rat but it's a mess.
It's all over the place from the undercover operations, the dirty underground scenes, the mob rule, and lets not forget the attitudes.

I really don't get the beginning with BIG T and the game but I couldn't take the commentary that soon followed.

"Women have been conditioned to please" said Win to Sadie in one particular moment and then we had the notion that yes," Sociopaths are very much in season."
Sure are and there seems to be plenty of them in this story.

Sharyn/Teddy and the beating that resulted was neither here nor there as it was a brief segment that served very little purpose for the rest of the book -especially for newbies- like myself.

The lingering concern over whether or not Patricia was involved behind the scenes and whether her own father was actively engaged also came into play. Both counts are correct.

Did Ry Strauss know Uncle Aldrich? Who knows and who honestly cares?

Then we sidestep into this scenario that wraps under the Jane Street Six and those deaths.
Art heist enter the picture soon after followed by a Hut of Horrors with several girls.

Once we get past this we enter another scenario with Patricia seducing Ian to gain his trust. WTH?

Only to shoot his arse dead?

OK??? If you say so, but this was her dad whom she killed when she was eighteen without a second glance?

Then we enter another storyline about this woman named Ema and Trey Lyons and the story then ends.

I must note I did originally request this novel back on February 4th via NetGalley. I was disappointed to have not been approved seeing that I was Top 28 USA Reviewer of All Time with Goodreads, holding 88%feedback at that time with NetGalley, and having read over 300 books this year alone by that time.

However, after reading this I was further disappointed because I have been hit or miss with Harlan Coben but this one was off the mark for me.

Nothing really spun the way I was hoping it would and the commentary about women rubs a feminist like myself the wrong way.

Thank you to Bibliotheca who came through with this E-read via Cloud Library.