Whenever a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her spouse and son on the dinner table and drives up to Lake Mondac to research. Was it a misdial or an aborted criminal offense report?

Brynn stumbles onto a picture of true horror and narrowly escapes from two professional crooks. She and a terrified visitor towards the weekend home, Michelle, flee into the woods in a race for their lives. As different as all the time, and about The Physiques Left Behind stripped of modern-day assets, Brynn, a hardcore deputy with a hard past, and Michelle, a pampered town girl, must conquer their organic reluctance to trust one another and figure out how to make use of their wits and courage to survive the relentless pursuit. The deputy’s disappearance spurs both her stressed kid and her fresh husband into actions, 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 OUT is an epic cat-and-mouse run after, told nearly in real-time, and it is filled with Deaver’s trademarked twists and becomes, where nothing is what it seems, and loss of life lingers just around another curve on a deserted path deep in the midnight forest.