What You Left Behind
A Novel
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4.1 • 29 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A mesmerizing new thriller from the author of Until You’re Mine
Two years after a terrifying spate of teenage suicides, the remote village of Radcote has just begun to heal. Then a young man is killed in a freak motorcycle accident and a suicide note is found among his belongings. When a second boy is found dead shortly thereafter, the nightmare of repeat suicides once again threatens the community.
Desperate for a vacation, Detective Inspector Lorraine Fisher has just come to Radcote for a stay with her sister, Jo, but the atmosphere of the country house is unusually tense. Freddie, Jo's son, seems troubled and uncommunicative, and Jo is struggling to reach out to him. Meanwhile, Lorraine becomes determined to discover the truth behind these deaths. Are they suicides, or is there something more sinister at work? Finding answers might help Freddie, but they'll also lead to a shocking truth: whatever it is--or whoever it is--that's killing these young people is far more disturbing than she ever could have imagined, and unraveling the secret is just as dangerous as the secret itself.
Wicked, intense, and utterly compulsive, What You Left Behind confirms Samantha Hayes as a top thriller writer.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British author Hayes's superb second thriller featuring Det. Insp. Lorraine Fisher (after 2014's Until You're Mine) finds Lorraine looking forward to spending a week visiting her sister, Jo Curzon, and Jo's 18-year-old son, Freddie, in the affluent English village of Radcote. But Jo has recently separated from her husband, and Freddie is sullen and distant, spending most of the time in his room on his computer. Two years before, Radcote was shaken by six teenage suicides in two weeks. Jo worries that Freddie's attitude may be a precursor to him taking his own life, perhaps influenced by the recent suicides of two young men, both of whom lived at the New Hope Homeless Shelter. Suspicious about the "cluster suicides," Lorraine begins an investigation that leads to Sonia Hawkeswell, a wealthy shelter volunteer whose own son committed suicide. Intense character studies, aided by a perceptive look at teenagers united by feelings of alienation, complement the unpredictable plot.
