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The Bodies Left Behind
by Jeffrey Deaver

Release Date: 8th Jan 2009
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN: 978 0 3409 7787 3
RRP: £17.99

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Psycho-thriller that builds up steam and let's it out slow...

A young married couple decide to take a weekend break at their vacation house out in the sticks. They're just settling down to a long-overdue drink when they hear movement outside. It's dark, they are in the middle of nowhere and they were supposed to be alone.

When the local Sherriff’s department gets a cut-off 911 call, chances are it was either a hoax who cried off shy or an accidental dial, but when you live in a small community it can pay to err on the side of caution. Brynn McKenzie is off-duty but close enough to hand to agree to check out the location the call came from and despite the reassurances that come later that it was a false alarm, she continues towards the darkened house. It doesn't take long to realise that something has gone horribly wrong in that house, and with the hair raised on her neck she also realises that whoever is responsible for the mess in that house is still there. What happens next is a rich and vibrant tale of survival and betrayal through the scrub and wilderness around Kennesha.

The bodies Left Behind is a psychological thriller about the callousness with which some people are able to dispatch lives as carelessly as throwing away a wrapper after finishing a burger. The bodies left behind, the fall guys - set up after set up, layered one on top of the other. This is what makes the book disturbing: the detachment from humanity. Both Michelle and Hart have that detachment in spades, but where Hart has limitations to his detachment, Michelle's is so far-reaching she is delusional.

Suspenseful and atmospheric, Deaver allows you to visualise intensely the struggles of Brynn as she tried to escape her pursuers, but there are moments where you just feel it's a bit scripted - as though Deaver is writing as though for the film version. Brynn's character although easy enough to warm to, acts a little unrealistically (near scalping herself in order to leave a false blood trail), especially for a small town cop - and I don't care how many training courses she's been on. Hart is by far the most intriguing of the bunch - try and unravel him if you dare.

Good, just not quite great.

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