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The Bodies
- Author
- Sam Lloyd
- Narrator
- Joe Jameson
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 19 June 2025
- Run Time
- 10 hours 26 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
How many times would you let your child get away with murder? The new break-out thriller from Sam Lloyd, author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick The Memory Wood.
When you look down at your newborn baby, you realise they were right, those smug parents you’ve always rolled your eyes at: you’d do literally anything for your child. To make them happy, keep them safe.
So when Joseph Carver wakes one night to find his teenage son Max scrubbing the kitchen, hands wet with blood and panic flooding his voice as he promises it was an accident, he didn’t mean to do it, Joseph does the only thing he can. He helps Max bury the body.
Joseph thinks that’s the end of the nightmare. Until he finds Max with stricken eyes and bloody hands once again . . .
You’d do anything for your child – even cover up a murder.
But would you do it twice?
‘Lloyd is a rare new thriller talent.’ – Daily Mail
‘Remarkable. Stunning prose and compulsive reading. It's undoubtedly the best thriller I've read in a long, long time.’ – Lesley Kara
‘An intense, atmospheric, and truly original thriller.’ – Shari Lapena
‘Fiendishly clever’ – Sunday Times
'The best hook of any thriller in the last few years.' - Helen Fields
'Twisty, relatable and relentlessly gripping.' - T.M. Logan
© Sam Lloyd 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
Critics Review
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The Bodies by Sam Lloyd has possibly the best hook of any thriller/psychological suspense in the last few years...it’s a blood-chilling, mind-bending, stress-inducing nightmare...I loved it, raced through it, can’t praise it highly enough.’
Helen Fields, million-copy bestselling author of The Institution and the DI Callanach Thrillers
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Brilliantly written and genuinely terrifying.
that's life (Crime Scene)
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A twisty, relatable and relentlessly gripping thriller that plays on every parent’s darkest fear. The tension never lets up for a moment.
TM Logan, author of The Daughter and The Dream Home
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A suburban Breaking Bad. Expertly plotted. The definition of unputdownable. A fantastic thriller.
Lisa Ballantyne, bestselling author of The Guilty One
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A nightmare scenario - and just when you think the nightmare is over, it gets worse. I was so tense I could barely breathe!
Jackie Kabler, author of The Life Sentence
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Praise for Sam Lloyd
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Lloyd is a rare new thriller talent.
Daily Mail
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Remarkable. Stunning prose and compulsive reading. It's undoubtedly the best thriller I've read in a long, long time.
Lesley Kara
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An intense, atmospheric, and truly original thriller.
Shari Lapena
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Propulsive, sinister, gripping.
Alex Michaelides, international bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The Fear
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Details
- Author
- Sam Lloyd
- Narrator
- Joe Jameson
- Duration
- 10 hours 26 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 June 2025
- ISBN
- 9781529962796
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Psychological thriller, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.How many times would you let your child get away with murder? The new break-out thriller from Sam Lloyd, author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick The Memory Wood.When you look down at your newborn baby, you realise they were right, those smug parents you’ve always rolled your eyes at: you’d do literally anything for your child. To make them happy, keep them safe.So when Joseph Carver wakes one night to find his teenage son Max scrubbing the kitchen, hands wet with blood and panic flooding his voice as he promises it was an accident, he didn’t mean to do it, Joseph does the only thing he can. He helps Max bury the body.Joseph thinks that’s the end of the nightmare. Until he finds Max with stricken eyes and bloody hands once again . . .You’d do anything for your child – even cover up a murder.But would you do it twice?‘Lloyd is a rare new thriller talent.’ – Daily Mail‘Remarkable. Stunning prose and compulsive reading. It's undoubtedly the best thriller I've read in a long, long time.’ – Lesley Kara‘An intense, atmospheric, and truly original thriller.’ – Shari Lapena‘Fiendishly clever’ – Sunday Times'The best hook of any thriller in the last few years.' - Helen Fields'Twisty, relatable and relentlessly gripping.' - T.M. Logan© Sam Lloyd 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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