What You Left Behind (Hardcover)

from Liz1564

Samantha Hayes is a master of misdirection as her second novel featuring Detective Lorraine Fisher proves. Lorraine is drawn into the puzzle of a rash of teenage deaths when she visits her sister in an idyllic Warwickshire village. The local police are satisfied that the deaths were suicides, but...

from caitemaire

There is nothing I love like a British procedural...so I should have loved this book. Why didn't I then? Well, the beginning drags and I never really got a sense I knew the main character Detective Fisher. Without a strong central character, the books seems to just drop along. The situation with ...

from Beamis12

2.5 never really got into this one. A rash of suicides and a visit to her sisters, with her daughter Sophie, find Lorraine, a police officer embroiled in the mystery. Her nephew Freddie is acting strange and a grown man with mental issues is telling stories that do not agree with known facts. Not...

from groundedforlife

A little creepy, a little intriguing, a little twisted and a little dull. Story and plot wise is actually pretty good. Characters though for me fell short. It is a little slow at first but does pick up midway thru and is enjoyable from that point to the end. I'd read more by Samantha Hayes and ho...

from karen_o

This book should have been just my sort of read -- suspenseful police procedural set in England -- and the recent pre-publication hype certainly paints it that way but, for me, it just fell flat. The story never felt truly plausible -- there was something off-kilter and, at least partly for me, i...