The Bodies Left Behind: A Novel
by Jeffery Deaver
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Author: Jeffery DeaverEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-11
ISBN: 1416595619
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Book Review: Page-turning thrills
Summary: 5 Stars
Essentially a heart-pounding chase, Deaver's stand-alone thriller pits a tough small-town Wisconsin deputy against a soulless professional killer and his cocky sidekick.
In trademark fashion, Deaver takes a simple crime, imagines all the things that can go wrong and keeps them coming so fast it's all you can do to remember to breathe. Then he slips in some personal complications, muddies the lines with back-story, casts doubt on everybody and juggles it all with multiple viewpoints and short, cliff-hanging chapters.
Deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves the family dinner scene - newish husband, troubled teenage son and convalescing mother - to follow up on an aborted 911 call from a remote lakeside vacation home. Expecting a false alarm, she stumbles into carnage and chaos.
The city couple who own the house are dead and the killers are still on scene, their getaway foiled by the couple's weekend visitor, a woman who winged one of the killers, then shot out the tires of their and her hosts' cars and ran off into the woods.
Why did she do this, thereby trapping herself with the killers? Well, she is something of a ditz, as Brynn soon discovers. In one of the book's less believable scenes, the panicked woman balks at trading her designer footwear for hiking boots as - without transportation, weapon, or phone - Brynn plots their getaway from men determined to leave no witnesses. But as the chase gets going the rescued woman thankfully grows a bit less whiny and a bit more resourceful. The ending is a maze of twists and turns, some the reader will guess, and some surprises.
Darkness, remote woods, a battle of wits and ruthlessness - just the thing to cozy up with on a cold evening. Deaver gives the plot a bit more heft with a shady union connection and a fixer set on joining the chase. Brynn's husband and bratty son are less compelling, but you got to have the human element, right?
Pure escapism, this tale requires some suspension of disbelief - but these days even the morning paper defies belief, so leave your worries behind and jump on for a wild and scary ride.
Summary of The Bodies Left Behind: A Novel
The New York Times bestselling master of suspense is back!
When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, off-duty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at the dinner table and drives up to Lake Mondac to investigate. Was it a misdial or an aborted crime report?
Brynn stumbles onto a scene of true horror and narrowly escapes from two professional criminals. She and a terrified visitor to the weekend house, Michelle, flee into the woods in a race for their lives. As different as night and day, and stripped of modern-day resources, Brynn, a tough deputy with a difficult past, and Michelle, a pampered city girl, must overcome their natural reluctance to trust each other and learn to use their wits and courage to survive the relentless pursuit. The deputy's disappearance spurs both her troubled son and her new husband to action, while the incident sets in motion Brynn's loyal fellow deputies and elements from Milwaukee's underside. These various forces race along inexorably toward the novel's gritty and stunning conclusion.
The Bodies Left Behind is an epic cat-and-mouse chase, told nearly in real-time, and is filled with Deaver's patented twists and turns, where nothing is what it seems, and death lingers just around the next curve on a deserted path deep in the midnight forest.
Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: Nothing is as it seems in The Bodies Left Behind, Jeffrey Deaver's quintessential can't-put-it-down thriller about an off-duty cop who investigates an aborted 911 call from a secluded vacation home and ends up on the run. From the opening scene (that'll keep even the bravest of you at home with the doors locked and the shades drawn), Deaver delivers a clever page-turner that reads like one of his tightly plotted and fast-paced short stories (fans should check out Twisted). Endlessly surprising (there is more than one jaw-dropping plot twist) and supremely gripping (two hours after cracking this stand-alone thriller, I came up for air and took a moment to shake the cramp out of my fingers), The Bodies Left Behind is one of the most entertaining thrillers of the year. --Daphne Durham
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