REVIEW OF ‘THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND’
This adventurous thriller cum stressed family handler, by Jeffery Deaver, revolves around a homicide in a lake house in Wisconsin, with a police deputy Brynn McKenzie being its centre of gravity.
The plot begins with a freezing opening of murder of a couple by two killers and a lady deputy being assigned to handle the mysterious scenario. She, along with a lady who claims herself to be the guest of the victims, are forced to escape into thousands of acres of dense woods, to escape from the killers.
Though the bottom line appears promising, the narration fails to match the expectation. The timely strategies the deputy formulates to dodge the killers and the way the killers wittily outcome her traps seem to be increasing the mileage but the plot fails to hold it up throughout due to the extra lengthy descriptions that unfortunately provokes the reader to await its end.
The idea of tuning the instincts of a deputy and a killer seem exciting but the fascination fades away in the due course. An entire chapter is dedicated to explanation of the title of the book which undoubtedly adds fuel to the fire of frustration.
The author also provides an insight into the personal life of the deputy-her troublesome teenaged son, misunderstanding with her second husband, the reason she parted her first husband and incidents which leaves the readers with a sharp negative interpretation that woman who appear efficient at workplace fail to manage a successful personal life.
This 500 paged manhunt unwinds all the knots in the last very few chapters which provides us with a feeling of watching a film that was unsuccessful due to its focus on heroism(or heroinism in this case)and failure on storyline.
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