Not forgetting that the dead boy's mother is being blackmailed for having sex with one of her underage pupils. She's transferred back to this small town to hook up with her dad who abandoned her at birth but who's since come out as gay and is the best pal of the doctor above. She's being assisted by a zealous young female cop who is both pregnant and a 'widow', her cop boyfriend having been killed in the line of duty. Said neighbour just happens to be the lead detective on the murder trail. Her dad, a local surgeon nurtures feelings of guilt because he was starting an affair with a neighbour while his terminally ill wife was breathing her last. A teenage girl, the girlfriend of the dead boy goes missing. You want sub-plots, I'll give you subplots. Then dial in about a bazillion potential suspects, cross reference with another bazillion sub-plots, stir, throwing in another murder and finish it off with a highly unlikely twist you couldn't have predicted if it was coming straight at you and had 'Big twist coming' tattooed on its forehead. The action starts off with a death, on this occasion, the drowning of an attitudinal schoolboy at a late night party being held at the swankiest house with its own pool in a small gated community of the spoilt daughter of her shady dad and docile mum. I've never read a Harlan Coben novel, but I've now watched two or three TV adaptations of his and think I'm getting used to his style.

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