The Bodies Left Behind

These various forces race along inexorably toward the novel's gritty and stunning conclusion. 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 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.. Was it a misdial or an aborted crime report? Brynn stumbles onto a scene of true horror and

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. --Daphne Durham. 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 plott

What a disappointment. Jim Horn What a disappointment. Having read the author's earlier books I had high expectations and it started out suspenseful, but then it gets bogged down in one narrow escape after another, a seemingly endless series of climaxes that never climax. It seems as if he is trying to imitate the superb works of John Sandford in rural Minnesota, changing the scene to rural Wisconsin, but unable to make the reader believe any of this is possible. Imagine two women running for their lives and they stop to discuss their marital problems. Yuk. This seems to be part of a general trend that popular authors are writing crap knowing thei. Terrible! Sally I cannot believe this was written by Jeffrey Deaver, the same man who wrote the Lincoln Rhyme series and my favorite book of all time "A Maidens Grave". This was a huge disappointment! I did make it through this boring read, with its cardboard characters and predictable plot. I just had to force myself, it was horrible I'm sorry, Jeffrey blah! The master of plot twists really bombed here.. "Unrealistic twists galore!" according to Dave Schwinghammer. When Deputy Brynn McKenzie answers a 911 call at a remote house near Lake Mondac in northern Wisconsin, she finds a double homicide. She is also confronted with the murderers who are still there, and along with a Michelle, a house guest who manages to elude the killers, she finds herself in a race for survival.Deaver fans know what to expect. He/she will experience dozens of twists and turns and nothing is as it seems. Deaver will backtrack toward the end, explaining most of his seemingly unrealistic twists. Why, for instance, does a smart man like Hart take a job working with a loser like Lewis? Why does Michelle l