How Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben Wrote 'Gone Before Goodbye' (Exclusive)

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For Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben, co-writing their new thriller Gone Before Goodbye was a natural partnership

"She told me the story, and I was like 'dang, that's good, we could do something with that,'" says Coben

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For longtime friends Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben , writing a book together felt like a natural partnership — even though neither had ever done it before.

Coben, the bestselling author behind 35 books including Tell No One , The Woods and Nobody's Fool and TV series like Fool Me Once and Missing You has worked in writers' rooms for the screen, but never considered writing a novel with a partner. That is, until Witherspoon called him.

"I've known Reese for about a decade now. And she's fang