The Bodies
  • Published: 23 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787636255
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $38.00
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The Bodies

  • Sam Lloyd
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23 Sep 2025
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19 Jun 2025
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19 Jul 2025
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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 how many times?
  • Published: 23 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787636255
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $38.00
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Praise for The Bodies

Praise for Sam Lloyd

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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

Forget everything you think you know about thrillers. You’ll be breathless with anticipation, tingling with hope, and numb with dread from beginning to end.

Press Association

A darkly chilling and original novel . . . a series of twists keeps readers captivated until a shocking climax.

Daily Express

Fiendishly clever.

Sunday Times

Lloyd is terrific on atmosphere... He excels at taking readers to very dark places.

Metro

Absorbing and deftly written . . . Each page promises the literary equivalent of a fresh jab to the solar plexus.

Herald

Shocking . . . Sam Lloyd's heart-racing thriller keeps us guessing until the end.

Woman's Own

A suburban Breaking Bad. Expertly plotted. The definition of unputdownable. A fantastic thriller.

Lisa Ballantyne, bestselling author of The Guilty One