Coben to issue Long Lost this month

Harlan Coben returns to bookshelves March 31 with Long Lost, a new Myron Bolitar mystery. It’s Bolitar’s first appearance since 2006′s Promise Me. That was Bolitar’s return after five stand-alone thrillers. Coben penned just two stand-alone’s between these two most recent Bolitar outings, which might indicate that he is willing and/or able to more consistently alternate between the tether of his beloved sports agent hero and the relative freedom of stand-alone work.

The book picks up where the last of the original set of Bolitar books left off, with Myron hearing from Terese Collins, a paramour last heard from in Darkest Fear. Coben calls the book “the most action-packed and fastest paced of all the Myron books — an international thriller with global implications.” It takes Bolitar to Paris to help Collins, who has been implicated in her ex-husband’s death.

Coben plans a short promotional tour with Australian singer-songwriter Missy Higgins, following on an event the two did in New York, that will involve “a little music, a little discussion on the creative process, signed books, CDs and DVDs.”

Lastly, Coben reports that he is developing a one-hour dramatic series for TNT. This is not the Bolitar series reported last year, but rather an original idea, he writes in his newsletter. “The series, called ‘Hero Complex,’ follows the exploits of three unlikely crime-fighters — a stunning lawyer, a brooding doctor and a psychotic social worker who all share a dark, childhood secret.”