The Innocent - Harlan Coben

This book was okay. It was a quick read - I believe I finished it in one day - but I didn't feel I got a lot out of it.

SUMMARY

"The protagonist is Matt Hunter, a young man who gets involved in a fight at a frat party in college, winds up going to prison for manslaughter when one of the people he was fighting with dies, and then tries to rebuild his life after being released. He seems to be doing so: he has a good job as a paralegal, and he’s married to a beautiful woman who’s now pregnant. And then, of course, everything goes haywire as all sorts of trouble from the past crops up. Before you know it, Matt is on the run from the cops, suspected of two murders, and somebody wants him dead." (copied from here)

It turns out that his wife has lied about her past. Rather than involving an idyllic childhood on a Southern farm/ranch, it was lived in Idaho and Nevada in foster homes, and eventually as a slave and a dancer.

She faked her own death after finding a fellow dancer had been murdered, and used that opportunity to escape to a new life. However, her past began to catch up with her despite her own innocence in all of it. To top it all off, a child she placed for adoption years before turns out to be her sister-in-law's live-in nanny.