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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781416595618
ISBN number: 1416595619
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 368
Printing Date: November 11, 2008
Publishing house: Simon & Schuster
Sale Popularity Level: 455
Studio: Simon & Schuster
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When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty 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 into 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 subsequent 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
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When I see that Jeffery Deaver has written another novel, I hit the one-click purchase button without a second thought. The subsequent time, I will do some research.
This book has its moments. It's just that they are few and far between, being mostly seperated by a never ending chase through a state park containing several thousand acres, at night, with two fairly accomplished armed killers trying to catch and kill two women and a kid who have a couple of knives for weapons. The improbables and impossibles of what goes on during that endless episode would amount to a lengthy listing if I had bothered to jot them down as I read through it.
There is a typical Deaver scary start to the book which is very well done. There is a somewhat interesting aftermath to the cat and mouse hunt in the park, too many interpersonal relationships to sort through and an imponderable ending to one of the main characters in the book.
The only mystery when you get to the last page is who killed "the killer." There is no answer. Not now. Not ever. If you ever see Mr. Deaver, ask him.
Check that. There is another mystery. Which is why in the name of Heaven did Deaver write such a clunker?? Let's hope it is a question we don't have to ask again.
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The new Jeffery Deaver standalone is a thriller, not a procedural. And we're in Wisconsin, not New York. And we're in the woods, not in the city. And the protagonist is a woman. And the antagonists are . . . anybody's guess. A rural deputy answers a 911 call, finds murder and mayhem in a home in the woods, escapes (barely) with one of the putative victims and is then chased across a state park replete with water traps, briars and brambles, rock cliffs, and, yes, a meth lab.
Since this is Jeffery Deaver, the plot seems to be proceeding (at breakneck speed) from point A to point B, but, of course, there are twists/turns X, Y, and Z before we get to B. The setting could have been claustrophobic, but it is not. The characters are engaging, the setting is nicely realized, but some of the action is a tad implausible and sometimes things work out a little too conveniently (or potential problems are anticipated a little too cleverly). Nevertheless, the story is strong, the action insistent, the conclusion satisfying. If you're up for a trip to the woods, with potential bad guys galore and putative good guys perhaps not quite what they seem, go for it.
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Jeffrey Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme novels are cerebral mystery thrillers. He adds suspense and tension that bring the novels to the near thriller from the mere mystery. In "The Bodies Left Behind" he forsook the cerebral part and went with a plain thriller.
The very first third to one-half is as terrific a chase-thriller as can be written. A team of killers hunt the female deputy and damsel in distress through dark woods. The moves and counter-moves by the lead killer and the deputy sheriff are great. At times a bit over the top, but of what are thrillers made?
Once the book gets out of the woods, it seemed that Deaver did not know how to finish the it. There is a savory twist, but then the book just fizzles. The resolution(s) are unexplained and just sort of "happen".
This is a fun read, but it will not impart the same knowledge of esoteric areas or sense of wonder that Deaver's others books provide. The very first part that takes place in the woods makes the book worth reading. Just don't judge Deaver's talents on this novel.
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I agree with most of the 1 and 2 star reviewers, here. Starts out exciting, then quickly devolves into unbelievable nighttime cat and mouse games in the dense dark woods. There was definite ingenuity on Brynn's part and some surprises that kept it from getting too boring and repetitious, but overall, pretty tedious and not up to Deaver's usual finesse. Michelle's identity was a surprise. But what I want to know is WHO SHOT HART? It was a professional killing...none of the major players were left except for that union boss and his skinny minion. Why were we given no clues as to who the shooter was? Unlike Deaver--he usually wraps things up so we don't have to "guess" about any dangling string.
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It would be nice if other reviewers just gave their opinion of the book and not try to summarize it!
This was a good (not great) book. If you like Jeffery Deaver, this is right in line with what you've come to expect.
See how easy that was? I gave my opinion and didn't feel the need to give away the book! Try it.
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