The Bodies Left Behind

The Bodies Left Behind

by JefferyDeaver (Author)

Synopsis

A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin...A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short...A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder...Before she can call for backup, though, she finds herself the next potential victim. Deprived of her phone, weapon and car, Brynn and an unlikely ally - a survivor of the carnage - can survive only by fleeing into the dense, deserted woods, on a desperate trek to safety and ultimately to the choice to fight back. The professional criminals, also strangers to this hostile setting, must forge a tense alliance too, in order to find and kill the two witnesses to the crime...

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Edition: 1ST
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 08 Jan 2009

ISBN 10: 0340977876
ISBN 13: 9780340977873
Book Overview: An isolated house in the woods, dead bodies on the floor, a chase through the woods: a tense standalone thriller from the master of the twist.

Media Reviews
The pace is terrific, the suspense inexorable, and there is an excellent climax . . . If you want thrills, Deaver is your man. * Guardian on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
Confirms his status as one of the finest crime writers in the world . . . grabs the reader by the throat from the beginning. Superb. * Independent on Sunday on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
This is not just an adrenaline-charged manhunt but a game of deception and multiple double-cross that keeps the reader guessing right up to the final page * The Times on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
Deaver has created a real page-turner from start to finish * Daily Mirror on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
An epic cat-and-mouse chase . . . the number of twists and returns from the apparently dead is astonishing * Sunday Telegraph on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
Full of his trademark misdirections, bluffs and double-bluffs . . . It'll be snapped up and devoured by Deaver's legions of loyal fans * News of the World on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
'Deaver cleverly keeps the surprises up his sleeve until the very end' * Daily Mail on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
'A thrill-a-minute wilderness adventure' * New York Times on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
A head-spinning, clever cat-and-mouse tale that hurtles along at 100mph . . . Full of twists, turns, bluffs and double bluffs, it's an edge-of-the-seat read from beginning to end * Sunday Express on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
The plot twists are sudden, dazzling and unexpected, and climax in a breathtaking finale. * Scotsman on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
In the past few months I have read several of Jeffery Deaver's complex thrillers and am fast becoming his greatest fan . . . Apart from the nuts and bolts of this relentless pursuit... he also makes the characters live and breathe . . . There are whole shoals of red herrings which are intriguing as any of the mantraps and decoys set out by the hunters and the hunted. Read this and no country walk will ever be the same again. * Daily Express on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
'Few who pick up his thrillers are able to easily put them down' * Barry Forshaw on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
'The master of suspense will not leave his readers disappointed with this gripping page-turner . . . Pick this book up and you won't put it down.' * Edinburgh Evening News on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
'Ingenious . . . Unexpected twists are never far away. And when the surprises do come, you'll be forced to pause and admire the masterly way in which Deaver springs them.' * Yorkshire Post on THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND *
The best psychological thriller writer around * The Times *
The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world . . . [Deaver] has produced a stunning series of bestsellers with unique characterisation, intelligent characters, beguiling plots and double-barrelled and sometimes triple-barrelled solutions. * Daily Telegraph *
'This is a novel that will chill your blood on the warmest day of any summer holiday. Keep looking over your shoulder...' * Independent on Sunday *
Author Bio

Jeffery Deaver is the award-winning author of two collections of short stories and 29 internationally bestselling novels, including the latest James Bond novel Carte Blanche. He is best known for his Lincoln Rhyme thrillers, which include the number one bestsellers The Vanished Man, The Twelfth Card and The Cold Moon, as well as The Bone Collector which was made into a feature film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. The first Kathryn Dance novel, The Sleeping Doll, was published in 2007 to enormous acclaim.

A three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the year, he has been nominated for an Anthony Award and six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. He won the WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award in 2001 and in 2004 won the Crime Writers' Association Steel Dagger for Best Thriller with Garden of Beasts, and their Short Story Dagger for The Weekender from Twisted.

Jeffery Deaver lives in North Carolina and California.

Visit his website, www.jefferydeaver.com, Facebook page, www.facebook.com/JefferyDeaver, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JefferyDeaver.