A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. . . . A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. . . . A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder. . . . Before she can call for backup, though, she finds herself the next potential victim. Deprived of her phone, weapon and car, Brynn and an unlikely ally – a survivor of the carnage – can survive only by fleeing into the dense, deserted woods, on a desperate trek to safety and ultimately to the choice to fight back. The professional criminals, also strangers to this hostile setting, must forge a tense alliance too, in order to find and kill the two witnesses to the crime...

The Bodies Left Behind will be released in hardcover in the USA and Canada on November 11, 2008. It will be released in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand in January 2009.

傑弗裏•迪弗1950年5月6日齣生於美國的伊利諾伊州，曾經當過新聞記者、民謠歌手和律師，以偵探小說聞名於世。迄今為止迪弗已齣版長篇小說27部，短篇小說集2部，多次獲得各類文學奬項，部分作品已被改編成電影。其小說已被譯成25種語言，全球銷售過億冊，暢銷151多個國傢和地區。