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Title: The Bodies Left Behind
Author(s): Jeffrey Deaver
Reader(s): Holter Graham
Illustrator(s): Ø
Illustrator(s): Ø
ISBN(s): 978-1602853249 (Hardcover Large Print), 978-1416595625 (Paperback), B001KM0Y0I (Kindle), 978-0743579940 (CD Audiobook Unabridged), 978-1442335530 (CD
Audiobook Abridged)
Official Link(s): Author's Website, Reader's Website
Publisher’s Summary: 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…
Disclosure: A friend gifted me this audiobook.
Summary and Review: The Bodies Left behind is a twisting, turning thriller focused on a single night of crime. A brutal murder in an isolated Wisconsin lake house results in a thrilling overnight chase. Without a phone, map, or weapon, Deputy Brynn McKenzie fights for her survival against professional killers. A twisted hunt continues: with plenty of misdirection, implication, and subtlety throw in to keep the reader guessing. The power shifts between characters grab the reader's attention: at any given moment the hunted can become the hunters, and vice versa. The characters are generally well-developed, compelling and fascinating. The many subplots and minor characters are even fleshed-out to a satisying degree. In particular, the characters of Brynn and Hart were particularly intriguing to me - their interplay and mutual respect added an interesting dimension to the cat-and-mouse game of survival they were playing with one another. The reader of this audiobook, Holter Graham, provides a clear performance, adding suspense and nuance to a strongly-written text. He manages to voice characters of both a variety of ages and genders without a sense of farce or mockery. Recommended.
Down and Dirty: Gun and domestic violence. Harsh language. Illegal activity, including murder and drug references. Adult relationships and sexuality.
Age Recommendation:
The book is written for an adult audience, but might appeal to advanced teenage
readers as well. Ages 16+, with
advanced native-English reading proficiency. Lexile Unknown.
The 20: Hired killers loose in the forest hunt witnesses overnight. Who will surive? And who is to blame? Recommended, ages 16+.
Readalikes: In the Dark by Mark Billingham, The Woods by Harlan Coben, the Prey series by John Sandford
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