Harlan Coben’s Gingerbread House

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The perennially best-selling thriller author Harlan Coben lives with his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben, a pediatrician, and their children in a Victorian house in Ridgewood, N.J. “There are a lot of little rooms. There are plenty of places to kind of disappear, which all of us do at some point,” said Mr. Coben, whose new novel, “Run Away,” was just published.

Brad Dickson for The New York Times

Harlan Coben’s Gingerbread House

For the best-selling author of thrillers, buying a spooky old Victorian seemed a little too on the nose. But he did it anyway.