Does It Hurt?

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Does It Hurt?” by Harlan Coben is one of the best thriller novels that incorporates the themes of loss, sorrow, and how secretiveness has an impact on relationships. The entire plot revolves around Jim, a man who, after the tragic death of his wife – who died in a hit-and-run accident – has to bear all sorts of atrocities in life. Overwhelmed by his grief, Jim tries to come to terms with life and work. But he is about to find the most unexpected discovery: his wife had been involved in a mysterious series of events before she died.

Driven by the need to know, Jim begins digging into his wife’s past. He exposes darker secrets and darker impulses that contradict everything he had so far known about her and their life together. The investigation takes him into a web of deception, betrayal, and danger. What unfolds forces him to confront some of his vulnerabilities and the painful realities of love and loss.

Coben’s is a tension-filled story that goes into characters whose psychology has been well-built into “Does It Hurt?”. A psychological thriller that brings the reader many happy hours of reading, raises poignant questions about trust and the complexity of human relationships, and puts a challenge to the extent one might go to to uncover truth.