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 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?
Book Info: Print length: 375 pages. Publisher: Transworld Digital. Publication Date: 19 June 2025
My Thoughts:
Want a book that you literally can’t put down? Well I can 100% recommend THE BODIES by Sam Lloyd. This is my first book by this author and the minute I finished it I downloaded his entire back catalogue!.
The Bodies is one of those books that gets under your skin and into your thoughts from the opening page until the final chapter. It asks that terrifying question “how far would you go to protect your child?” and plunges the reader immediately into a moral dilemma that no parent should ever have to contemplate.
The story follows Joseph Carver, a father who wakes one night to find his teenage son Max scrubbing blood off the kitchen floor. Max insists it was an accident. Joseph, driven by love and guilt, helps him bury the body. But then it happens again and Joseph is forced into a spiral of deception, fear, and moral compromise.
The pacing of the story is fast and furious. The emotional turmoil is heightened due to Joseph’s past and his profound guilt at what happened to his first wife. All the characters are complex, hiding their own secrets which adds another layer of tension.
Honestly, I could go on and on about this book but I won’t, because you NEED to download this now and I’d love to know if you agree with me.
