The Bodies Left Behind

From Jeffery Deaver, whose “labyrinthine plots are astonishing” ( The New York Times Book Review ), comes the international bestseller
    THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND
    “It is a pleasure watching Deaver spin out a series of cat-and-mouse games . . . with a logician’s skill.”
    — Kirkus Reviews
    “Deaver is such a good puppet master that he makes us believe whatever he wants us to believe . . . without telling us a single lie. . . . It’s not until we’re well more than halfway through the book that we even begin to suspect that we might have made some dangerous mistakes . . . but by then, it’s way too late, and we are completely at Deaver’s mercy.”
    — Booklist (starred review)
    “Hurtles along at 100 m.p.h. . . . An edge-of-the-seat read from the beginning to end.”
    — Sunday Express (U.K.), 4 stars
    “The pace is terrific, the suspense inexorable. . . .”
    — The Guardian (U.K.)
    “He makes the characters live and breathe. . . . Read this and no country walk will ever be the same again.”
    — Daily Express (U.K.)
    “Not just an adrenaline-charged manhunt but a game of deception and multiple double-cross that keeps the reader guessing right up to the final page.”
    — The Times (London)
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    More praise for Jeffery Deaver’s international sensation The Bodies Left Behind
    “Gripping. . . . You won’t put it down.”
    —Edinburgh Evening News (U.K.)
    “A real page-turner from start to finish.”
    —Daily Mirror (U.K.)
    Jeffery Deaver “stokes our paranoia” ( Entertainment Weekly ) with a heart-pounding bestseller of identity theft—featuring investigator Lincoln Rhyme
    THE BROKEN WINDOW
    “Riveting. . . . This is one scary novel. Everything in it seems as plausible and easy as buying a purse on eBay.”
    — The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    “Unnerving. . . . An Orwellian nightmare.”
    — The New York Times
    “Scary, scary. . . . What Deaver reveals about data mining is terrifying.”
    — San Jose Mercury News
    More acclaim for Jeffery Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme novels, “masterpieces of modern criminology” ( Philadelphia Daily News )
    THE COLD MOON • THE TWELFTH CARD
    THE VANISHED MAN • THE STONE MONKEY
    THE EMPTY CHAIR • THE COFFIN DANCER
    “Dazzling.”
    — The New York Times
    “Devilishly intricate. . . . The likeably crusty Rhyme is always a delight.”
    — Booklist
    “A crackling thriller.”
    — Chicago Sun-Times
    “Like the CBS hit CSI, Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme books have nearly fetishized crime-scene procedures and technology.”
    —Entertainment Weekly
    “Devious and heart-stopping.”
    — The Ottawa Citizen
    “This is as good as it gets. . . . The Lincoln Rhyme series is simply outstanding.”
    — San Jose Mercury News
    Investigative agent Kathryn Dance pursues a terrifyingly elusive killer in
    THE SLEEPING DOLL
    “[An] intricately plotted thriller. . . . A dazzling mental contest.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
    “The chase is on, and so are the surprises.”
    — Sacramento Bee
    And read Jeffery Deaver’s explosive stand-alone bestsellers
    GARDEN OF BEASTS • SPEAKING IN TONGUES
    THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP • THE BLUE NOWHERE
    “A thrill ride between covers.”
    — Los Angeles Times
    “Prime Deaver . . . which means prime entertainment.”
    —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
    “Deaver must have been born with a special plot-twist gene.”
    — Booklist
    “A fiendish suspense thriller. . . . Leaves us weak.”
    — The New York Times Book Review
    “High-tension wired. . . . Deaver . . . fills every keystroke with suspense.”
    — People

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For Robby Burroughs

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
    —J OHN M UIR

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    SILENCE.
    The woods around Lake Mondac were as quiet as could be, a world of difference from the churning, chaotic city where the couple spent their weekdays.
    Silence, broken only by an occasional a-hoo-ah of a distant bird, the hollow siren of a frog.
    And now: another sound.
    A shuffle of leaves, two impatient snaps of branch or twig.
    Footsteps?
    No, that couldn’t be. The other vacation houses beside the