Hold Tight

Hold Tight is a 2008 thriller and the ninth stand-alone novel by American crime writer Harlan Coben. The story deals with problems of parental controls, teenage suicide, children independence and abuse of prescribed drugs. It features several characters that are equally important. It was moderately well received by the critics. It debuted simultaneously as a No. 1 New York Times best seller and a Times of London best seller. A Polish language miniseries television adaptation was developed for Netflix. Plot The story is introduced with the characters Marianne, Nash, and Pietra. Pietra tricks Marianne by drugging her, which leads to Nash brutally beating Marianne to death, his last words to her being: "Tell Cassandra I love her." They remove her clothes, then dress her up to look like a prostitute and toss her body in a dumpster. The action switches to Tia and Mike Baye who never imagined they'd become spying, overprotective parents. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant and aloof lately, and after the recent suicide of his classmate and close friend Spencer Hill (who took vodka and tablets on his school's roof in the night and died), they can't help but worry. They install a spy program on Adam's computer and within days they are jolted by a strange message to their son from a correspondent known only as CeeJay8115: "Just stay quiet and all safe." The detective investigating Marianne's murder, Loren Muse, realizes that Marianne is not a prostitute and that someone has gone to great lengths to try to fool the authorities. However, Marianne's face has been so badly mutilated that it is impossible for anyone to identify her.