I Will Find You was published by Grand Central Publishing in 2023, and its premise is vintage Coben — a seemingly impossible situation that generates irresistible narrative momentum. David Burroughs is in prison, convicted of murdering his five-year-old son Matthew. He has no memory of the crime (he was found unconscious beside the body) but has accepted his guilt and resigned himself to spending the rest of his life in prison.
Then his nephew visits and shows him a photograph — a family snapshot that happens to include, in the background, a boy who looks exactly like Matthew. The boy is alive. Or at least a boy who could be Matthew is alive. It is the thinnest possible thread of hope, but it is enough: David escapes from prison and begins a desperate search for his son.
The novel operates on the tension between David’s certainty (which the reader shares, because the reader wants the boy to be alive) and the rationality of the police, who have strong forensic evidence that Matthew was murdered and that David did it. Coben plays fair with the evidence on both sides, maintaining genuine uncertainty about whether David is a grieving father pursuing the truth or a deluded murderer on the run.
Collecting I Will Find You
First edition (Grand Central Publishing, New York, 2023): Cloth binding, dust jacket.
Market values:
- First edition in dust jacket: $8–$15
- Signed copies: $15–$25