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Tell No One
By Harlan Coben

Tell No One is the story of David Beck whose life is shattered when his wife, Elizabeth, is murdered shortly after the murder of Brandon Scope. For the past eight years he has relived the event of that night at the lake: the carving in the tree that represents each year they’ve been together, the glistening stillness of the lake, and the sudden screams of terror, but most of all, the regret and guilt that he feels everyday. ‘If I saved myself, why couldn’t I save her?’ was the question that had haunted David Beck for all these years.
Beck’s life is turned upside-down when he receives an anonymous email with the subject “kiss time” followed by 21 slashes, (the number of years they would have been together). Beck’s whole world stops. For that one moment he has hope that Elizabeth has sent the email. Impossible. It must be a sick joke, but no one else knows about “kiss time”. When Beck opens the email he sees her. “It couldn’t be. I know that. Elizabeth hadn’t fallen off a yacht and assumed drowned, her body never found. Her corpse had been found in a ditch off Route 80… She had been positively Ided. Not by you…” (50). It is a simple email he receives that forces Beck to open his life back up to every horrifying event that had occurred to find out what really happened 8 years ago.
Beck receives a second email, this time he is given a username and password to log into that is a code that only he would know. In the email he is informed that he is to meet the assumed Elizabeth at Washington Square Park at five o’clock with a warning that he will be followed. “Hope, that the caged bird that just won’t die, broke free. I leaned back. Tears flooded my eyes, but for the first time in a long while, I let loose a real smile. Elizabeth. She was still the smartest person I knew” (150).
While one aspect of Beck’s life was looking up, the other was not. Detectives Carlson and Stone suspect