Harlan Coben doesn’t believe you guessed the twist in ‘Fool Me Once’
nme.com**Major spoilers for the ‘Fool Me Once’ finale below**Harlan Coben has said he doubts whether any Fool Me Once viewers would have correctly guessed the show’s shock twist.The author’s 2016 novel was adapted into a hit Netflix show starring Michelle Keegan and Richard Armitage, which landed on the platform earlier this month.
The eight-part series follows a recently widowed mother Maya (Keegan), who sees her dead husband Joe on a nanny cam and begins searching for the truth behind what she saw.At the same time, Maya’s niece Abby and nephew Daniel are investigating the murder of their mother Claire, drawing connections between the two cases.In the end, it’s revealed that Maya herself killed Joe in retaliation for him murdering her sister, after getting confirmation that a gun that only the two of them had access to had been the weapon used in Claire’s killing.Now, Coben has said that he didn’t expect viewers to guess the show’s eventual ending, but accepted that they may figure out that Maya had been Joe’s killer.
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