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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780743579926 Format: Abridged, Audiobook ISBN: 0743579925 Label: Simon & Schuster Audio Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio Number Of Items: 5 Publication Date: November 11, 2008 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Sales Rank: 665314 Studio: Simon & Schuster Audio Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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.com Review: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Page-turning thrillsEssentially 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 ... Read More Rating:  - The Bodies left BehindThis is a well written story with good dialogue; however, I found the plot somewhat implausible and quite distant from the previous Jeffrey Deaver books - all of which I have read and enjoyed. Perhaps his publisher might contact me? vincent cobb Rating:  - Can Jeffery Deaver Really Ever Write a Bad Book?Jeffery Deaver is my favorite author. There seems to be more bad reviews of this book than a typical Jeffery Deaver novel. Everybody has their opinion of a book and here is mine. When I heard JD was writing another book in 2008, I was very excited. Also hearing it was a standalone was a bonus because I have enjoyed his past ones alot. After reading the synopsis, I was eager to read it to see how Brynn McKenzie's dilemma would turn out. About 1/3 of the way into the book, ... Read More Rating: - A sit on the edge of your seat, page turner not to put down novelI was shocked to read negative reviews on this book. But those readers are digging too deep into what is real and what is a novel. I "got it" that they shouldn't be able to see much at night and how do they find each other in the dark. But that's a novel---the author has that right to make his stories against what is real life. And that's what helps to make it exciting. I thought this book was amazing----I lost a lot of sleep over it. I just couldn't put it down. The twists and turns were awesome ... Read More Rating: - Bleh - nothing specialI am a big fan of the Rhyme novels, and liked the recent Kathryn Dance book well enough. But, this one is a real departure from the Deaver books I usually love, and I was disappointed. Instead of a beat-the-clock-to-stop-a-killer-before-he-gets-the-next-victim approach, this book is mostly a long chase scene through the woods. There are some plot twists, and it was just interesting enough to keep me turning the pages. I give Deaver some credit for creating a strong, resourceful female protagonist, ... Read More |
