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    Deeper Than the Dead

    Written by Tami Hoag

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter

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    When three children stumble on a shallow grave in 1984, an idyllic California community is rocked to its core. The victim is a young woman, her eyes and lips sealed closed, a blind and silent witness to an unspeakable crime. The third victim in two years' time, it's clear that a serial killer has come calling.

    As a member of the FBI's fledgling criminal profiling unit, Special Agent Tony Mendez knows serial killers. It quickly becomes apparent that the See-No-Evil killer is no ordinary psychopath. The profile paints a portrait of a man easily trusted, well respected, and intelligent-a man no one would suspect.

    Dr. Peter Crane fits the bill. A pillar of the community, he volunteers at a center for disadvantaged women-a center the victims had all attended. Crane is also a beloved husband and father to a ten-year-old son, Tommy, who was one of the three children to discover the grave. Needing insight into Peter Crane's world, Mendez asks Anne Navarre, Tommy's fifth-grade teacher, to find out what she can. It's a request Anne finds both intriguing and unethical-much like Mendez himself.

    Then a new victim leads to a different suspect-a man whose son was another of the three children to find the grave but a man whose position in the community is also above reproach, a sheriff's deputy. As the connections between the two families become increasingly tangled, it seems clear that one of these children holds the key to a serial killer's double life . . . and a revelation of evil so dark, so deep, no one may survive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 29, 2009
    ISBN9780739365786
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    Tami Hoag

    TAMI HOAG is the #1 international bestselling author of more than thirty books. There are more than forty million copies of her books in print in more than thirty languages. Renowned for combining thrilling plots with character-driven suspense, Hoag first hit the New York Times bestseller list with Night Sins, and each of her books since has been a bestseller. She lives in California.

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    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. The story was set in 1984 and I like the way the police had to solve the crime without any of the technology that they have today.
    • 3/5
      I thought this was a good book. I would give it a 3.5 stars, not quite a 4 star book for me. What I liked the most about this book was the 4 children who discovered the dead body. It was interesting to see the story from their point of views. And the inclusion of a child psychopath was interesting too. I also enjoyed the relationship between Anne and Vince. As for the central mystery, there were a few suspects to choose from. I went back and forth on who I thought the killer was. At times I felt like I was being manipulated by the author to think that one guy was the killer, when it was really the other guy. I plan to read the next book in the series.
    • 5/5
      This thriller takes place in Oak Knoll, California, in 1985. There is a serial killer on the loose. His latest victim is discovered by four fifth graders. Tommy Crane and his friend Wendy Morgan are running from class bully Dennis Farman and his sidekick Cody Roache when then fall right into the victim's half-buried body. Since they are near the school, their teacher Anne Navarre joins them to see if she can help.First on the scene is Frank Farman, Chief Deputy and Dennis's father. He's an old-school chauvinistic cop. Soon it is Tony Mendez who is in charge of trying to solve the crime. He's new school and has attended the FBI course on the new science of crime profiling. He wants to call in the FBI but Chief of Police Cal Dixon doesn't want to create more of sensation than they already have.When Karly, a women who was at a local facility to help women who are victims on one way or another is reported missing, the director Jane Thomas fears she is the victim. However, she identifies the victim as another woman who had worked closely with the center which means that Karly is still missing. Now the police chief has no choice but to call in some help. Tony reaches out to his mentor Vince Leone who comes to help. Vince is on the sick list at the FBI because he was shot in the head by a mugger and still has some of the bullet in his brain. He is in almost constant pain and on a number of meds. He also has had a chance to look at his life and decide that he wants to make some changes. The mystery is quite complex. The suspects happen to be the fathers of the kids who discovered the body. Wendy's dad is the lawyer for the Center and knew two of the victims. Tommy's dad is the dentist who took care of the women at the Center for a reduced rate. Frank Farman is particularly noted for his generous distribution of traffic tickets which are disproportionately given to women and women from the Center particularly. Each of the men has a variety of secrets and their outward seeming as pillars of the community hides all sorts of issues. Wendy's dad and mom are on the verge of divorce. Tommy's mom is subject to very frightening rages that cause his dad to leave the house frequently. Frank's wife and son are both subjected to his physical abuse. I enjoyed the relationship that grew between Vince and Anne Navarre who has issues of her own. She lives with her narcissistic father who does nothing but belittle her. She also regrets not completing her schoolwork to become a child psychologist because her mother's death from pancreatic cancer and her last wish leaves her saddled with her ungrateful daughter. There were twists and turns aplenty in the mystery and at one time or another I was sure that each one of the father's was guilty.
    • 5/5
      Suspenseful, keeps you guessing until the end.
    • 4/5
      The story takes place in the "civilized upscale town" of Oak Knoll, California in 1985. A sadistic serial killer is abducting, assaulting, mutilating, and murdering young women. He is organized and extremely careful to leave no incriminating evidence behind. One day, while roughhousing in a neighborhood park, ten-year old Tommy Crane accidentally comes across one of the victims, who had been "killed and discarded like a broken doll." Tommy and his close friend, Wendy Morgan, are deeply traumatized by this experience. Life in Oak Knoll will ever be the same.

      The plot was fast paced and had enough twists and turns to keep me guessing "Who did it?" until the very end. Tami Hoag did a great job showing police work before the use of the technology we all take for granted today. You could feel the detective's frustration in not being able to easily find out things they needed to know. Great read for all mystery and thriller fans.
    • 3/5
      I am not a Tami Hoag fan but this book did hold my interest.
    • 4/5
      Good thriller. I enjoyed it. Very exciting.
    • 5/5
      Tami Hoag has done it again. An amazing book with an amazing plot, with twists and turns around every corner. A definite must read!!
    • 5/5
      California, 1985 - Four children - running through the woods behind their middle school - literally stumble upon a gruesome discovery. Partially buried in a shallow grave and covered by wet leaves is the body of a young woman, her eyes and mouth glued shut. Close behind the children is their teacher, Anne Navarre, shocked by this discovery and heartbroken for her students as she witnesses the end of their innocence. What she doesn't realize is that this discovery will also effectively mark the end of innocence for the entire community of Oak Knoll, as the ties that bind both friends and families are tested by the secrets uncovered in the wake of an apparent serial killer's escalating activity.FBI investigator Vince Leone, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is tasked with interpreting those recently revealed secrets. He's using a new technique known as profiling - to develop a theory of the case; a strategy that pulls him ever deeper into the lives of the four children, and brings him closer to the young teacher whose own interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own.As each new victim is found and the media scrutiny of the investigation intensifies around them, both Investigator Leone and Ms. Navarre wonder if those who suffer the most are the victims themselves - or the family and friends of the killer, blissfully unaware that someone very close to them is actually a cunning, calculating psychopath; capable of such horrific brutality.I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The plot was very exciting and dramatic; jam-packed with action, and filled with enough twists and turns to grab my attention right from the beginning. I was completely engrossed by the story and found that it just wouldn't let me go.Despite having one or two books by Tami Hoag on my bookshelf already - although I don't think I could tell you where either book actually is at the moment - Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag is the first book that I've read by this author. I would give Deeper Than the Dead a definite A+! and will certainly keep my eyes open for more thrillers by Ms. Hoag to read in the future.
    • 3/5
      I read Tami Hoag a long time ago and liked her books. But then the story line never really changed and I had enough and backed off. I read a review of her newest book and thought the 1980's setting might make for a different story. Decided to start with the first of this 1984 story line. It is good. Kept me reading. The beginnings of forensic science added some interest.
    • 4/5
      Good prose, diverse characters, figured out whodunit about 1/2 way through, but still a good read. Icky bad guy. Disfunctional families, scary child.
    • 3/5
      My first Tami Hoag book. Picked it up on an Audible sale. I really liked it, although have a child the same age as those in the book was a bit disconcerting. But I always love a book with a good serial killer. Hoag didn't make it too difficult to figure out who it was but I had to keep wondering how he was going to get caught. I have to think that I'll be finishing out this series and looking into more books by Hoag.
    • 3/5
      This is a fast paced thriller set in a small town called Oak knolls Three children discover a woman's body in the woods. There is a serial killer on the loose mutilating young woman and burying them.The FBI send in Vince Leon a veteran field officer to assist the local cops. Vince falls for Anne Navarre the children's teacher. OK book this but got a bit silly near the end.
    • 4/5
      Audiobook narrated by Kirsten Potter 3.5***Set in a California town a few hours from Los Angeles, in 1985, Hoag’s thriller begins when four children stumble upon the partially buried body of a woman while playing in the woods. Her eyes and mouth have been glued shut and it’s clear she’s been tortured. As the children’s teacher, Anne Navarre, tries to get them the help they need to process this horror, the local police turn to an FBI investigator, Vince Leone, to help develop a profile of the killer.Hoag writes a tight, suspenseful tale. The action is fast-paced, and I was completely captivated from beginning to end. I liked the characters, especially Anne and Vince. This is the first book by Hoag that I’ve read; it won’t be the last. Kirsten Potter does a fine job performing the audio book. She has good pacing, and enough skill as a voice artist to give each character a unique voice. I particularly liked the way she voiced Anne and Vince.
    • 5/5
      This was a Great thriller that I read in one day! I found myself drawn into the story of 4 children who discovered a body while running through the woods and the subsequent investigation. There were several people in the story that could have been the killer and even though I had figured it out by the end of the story it kept me guessing through out most of it and there was a surprise twist at the end. There were a couple of loose ends that did not get solved that should have but it was still good!
    • 4/5
      Now while I had read one of the later books in this series and did know, at least some of the characters who survived, this was an interesting read. Four kids find a body while going home from school and this body points at a possible serial killer who is killing the women in horrible ways, torturing them, blinding them by gluing their eyes shut, deafening them and gluing their mouths shut, before killing them. The various adults around the children are pivotal to the story and much of the story is about their reaction. There are also some nods to modern procedures, as while the book is set in the late 1980s it was published in 2009. The tension was kept going throughout the book and I really did get caught up in the story, I felt sorry for several of the kids and it did make me think about the nature of evil. This is a series I want to keep reading.
    • 5/5
      I've long been a fan of Tami Hoag's writing. She has the ability to create realism that might make some readers flinch. She doesn't do this with a lot of gore. What we get is an honest and raw look at the good and bad of humanity. Deeper Than the Dead takes us back to 1985. I found this a refreshing change in suspense. There is no DNA evidence here, no computers at each detective's fingertips. Instead, the investigation is done by talking to and getting to know the people involved. As the story unravels, each person's facade falls apart. We see the behavior people typically hide from even their closest friends. The clues lead us one way, then another. Just when you think you have it figured out, you'll think maybe you're wrong and the killer is someone else. These characters became like real people to me. I felt their emotions. I cared about what happened to them. And that, for me, is the perfect reading experience.
    • 4/5
      A good, gripping read that keeps you guessing all the time!
    • 4/5
      This book is set in 1984 during the infancy of modern forensics. It is entertaining and suspenseful and has Tami Hoag's signature grizzly murder details!
    • 3/5
      Deeper Than Dead takes place in 1985 in California which is one reason I chose to read this book. The book is bout a serial killer.While taking a walk in the woods four young boys find the body of a local teacher. There are some really violent and ugly scenes in this book including the woman getting her mouth and eyes glued shut. The children are a big part of the book and it is easy to read further into their lives where there is some possible abuse and neglect. There is no shortage of possible killers and there is shortage of just normal kids and families. Most of the children had less than happy lives. The book was disturbing in some of the scenes but it as an easy read with a good ending. It was entertaining and I have enjoyed most of Hoag’s latest books. She is an author worth reading for a light mystery thriller.
    • 5/5
      This is the best Tami Hoag book I have read in a long time. It kept you on the edge of your seat. I really enjoyed the book.
    • 5/5
      Tami Hoag and I go way back. In the early/mid-90s, she was one of the first authors I poached from my parents’ bookshelf. She introduced me to romantic suspense long before I even knew what romantic suspense was. And then I read Kill the Messenger, which didn’t connect with me at all, and she fell further down my list of go-to authors. Thankfully, with Deeper Than The Dead, she is back.First of all, I think the title and the meaning behind it is genius. It refers to the location of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit in its early days; the office is in the bowels of the building, and therefore its inhabitants are deeper than the dead. But really, the book has very little to do with the BSU as a unit. The focus is Vince Leone, a profiler who takes it upon himself to go help a promising young detective who thinks he’s found a serial killer.Also involved in the case is 5th grade teacher Anne Navarre, who is sucked in when her students find the latest body. One of the things I think worked really well in this book was the way Hoag used the children to show us some of what was happening behind the scenes. I think she captured each one of them perfectly, especially the troubled bully, Dennis. It helps us remember that even the most disturbed child was probably a victim.Vince and Anne make an unexpected and unusual team, but I liked them together. I actually wild-guessed who the bad guy was quite early in the story, but I think it comes from the sheer amount of these sorts of books I read — you eventually learn how things work. Hoag does a good job of making me doubt my guess on more than one occasion.Beneath all this effusive praise, I do have a few nits to pick. 1) I didn’t see the point of Anne’s despicable father, except to serve as yet another example of bad parenting in a story in which crappy parents abound. 2) Anne’s best friend Franny was a little too flaming, especially for a kindergarten teacher in 1985. And 3) Hoag uses the term "person of interest" on several occasions, and this was a term that wasn’t widely used, even amongst law enforcement, until at least the mid-90s. But none of this was enough to pull me away from the story, and I look forward to not only reading the sequel, but to bumping Tami Hoag back up a few spots on my "must-read" list.
    • 2/5
      This book is set in the year 1985, and it's about four grade five children who discover a dead woman in the woods just outside of their school. It ends up being the work of a serial killer and after a few chapters of discussion, the local Oak Knoll, CA, sheriff's department calls in an FBI profiler. Of course, this being 1985, profilers were a new animal in behavioural science.The profiler called to work this case is technically on leave, but he happens to be in the office when this case gets called in, and since it interests him, he goes to California to investigate who keeps kidnapping women, super-gluing their mouths and eyes closed, and breaking their eardrums, before killing them and burying them.Other than, of course, the mystery itself, the book revolves around the teacher of the students who discovered the body. Anne Navarre has only been teaching for five years, but because she attempted a graduated programme in child psych, the school at which she teaches (and the law enforcement authorities) rely on her to get information from the children and to provide gap-stop counselling to them in the immediate aftermath of the discovery.While I liked the character development of the children and Anne, I hated the character of the profiler. And I really despised the relationship between Anne and her father. It just seemed too dissonant from all of her other relationships.This book also reminded me why I stopped Hoag's books several years ago. She lays on the stereotyping way too much in an attempt to distract from the real action, and she uses attempts to force drama or humour when it isn't necessary.I'll also say that I identified who I thought were the red herring and the killer a little more than a hundred pages into the book. And while I was partially wrong, I was hoping to be completely wrong. I mean, who wants to figure out whodunit that soon after the book has been started? How disappointing.
    • 3/5
      When it comes to mysteries, I like the ones I read to fall heavily on the psychologically disturbing spectrum. Unless, of course, they're cozy mysteries because those are supposed to be light and airy. Deeper Than Dead wasn't a cozy mystery and it wasn't all light and airy. However, it wasn't as dark as I usually like my mysteries and it wasn't much when it came to probing the mind of the cruel serial killer. This was surprising considering that Hoag makes this huge deal about Vince, this awesome, kick-ass profiler who is a living legend in the BSU (us Criminal Minds fans know it as the BAU), yet doesn't have him doing much of anything except the job of the regular-run-of-the-mill detective. And we had tons of those, so what was the point besides playing up the romance with the teacher? God, the romance! It was your typical eye-rolling cheesefest of a romance that doesn't really belong in a hardcore mystery book, but as I've mentioned, Deeper Than Dead isn't really a hard core mystery. Honestly, I skimmed most of the romance scenes because I couldn't care less about Anne and Vince. That part was meh to me. You know what else was meh for me...any chapter than Vince narrated. He's just not the most interesting of characters. I found myself going "Oh not again!" when a chapter he was narrating popped up. He was definitely the most boring character. Oh, and by the way, NO ONE falls in love in three days! Do you hear me? NO ONE! So that part was nauseating with the whole "I've only known her for 48 hours but I LURVE her!" Dude, that wasn't you thinking with your heart or your actual head... Anyway, one thing I did like about Deeper Than Dead were the chapters alternated by the children. Reading what was happening through their eyes was infinitely more interesting than what was happening through the eyes of Vincent. I also liked the chapters narrated by the suspects. In fact, the only chapters I didn't like were the ones narrated by, you guessed it, Vince. Deeper Than Dead was an okay mystery. It was a page-turner in the beginning and again in the end. It did drag a lot in the middle though. I think this book would've been a tad bit more interesting if it had delved into the mind of the serial killer and why he was the way he was. Otherwise, why would you waste time including a character from the BSU when his part could've been given to the average Dick or Tom? Still, I'll probably check out the next one only because it's already on my Kindle.
    • 4/5
      From the moment I read the very early scene where four children stumble on a dead body in the park I was hooked to read page after page of Deeper than the Dead. There are lots of twists and turns and a surprise ending to boot. For those of you that enjoy a great mystery/thriller try this book. Highly recommend.
    • 4/5
      This was a decent thriller, and it kept me entertained. The characters were mostly done well, and the author kept me guessing for about half of the book, until I figured out who the killer was for sure. I'd be likely to read another of Hoag's books in the future.
    • 5/5
      Tami Hoag has done it again. An amazing book with an amazing plot, with twists and turns around every corner. A definite must read!!
    • 4/5
      Nothing in her training prepared fifth-grade teacher Anne Navarre for how to help her students deal with what happened that day. Tommy Crane and his friend Wendy Morgan were running through the park to escape the class bully when Tom tripped and fell down a small hill, landing on top of a dead body. It is the body of a missing young woman, buried up to her neck, her eyes and mouth sealed shut with super glue. In 1985, it does seem that quiet Oak Knoll, California is the sort of place where this kind of thing happens. But when you look a little deeper it seems that everything in Oak Knoll may not be quite as placid as it first seems. Even in the families of the children involved.The sheriff's department does not want to believe that a serial killer may be loose in their community but they can't deny it when it is found that this may be his third victim. When another woman is discovered to be missing, the urgency only increases and Detective Tony Mendez is a new breed of cop, willing to take advantage of all the cutting edge technology he can to solve the crime. Help comes in the person of FBI agent Vince Leone, one of the government's new criminal profilers. Leone, barely back to active duty after his own near death attack, may not be firing on all cylinders but he is still the best hope they have of discovering what fine, upstanding citizen may be a murderous psychopath. And maybe save the next victim in the killer's sights, a victim whose identity will touch very close to home.Ok, I guessed who the killer was, even with the many red herrings thrown in the reader's path. But that is not necessarily a bad thing, because the ride there was a good one. Good characters, several of whom appear in Hoag's next book, a good setting, a good story, good writing and a grisly serial killer, all concluding with an exciting climax and a sad, disturbing twist...what's not to like?Ok, there may be a thing or two.The books takes place a few decades ago, before the advent of national databases of fingerprints and before DNA identification was available. But really, it becomes a bit disconcerting to be told that again and again. I really do not think police departments sit around thinking, "golly, if we only had...." whatever technology the future may bring...because it does not exist yet. Odd, unnecessary and rather annoying.But a small matter in what is otherwise a good solid thriller, with a bit of romance and a sometimes disturbing look at what may reside just below the surface of that seeming nice, quiet, successful family living just next door.
    • 5/5
      Something about this book made it one of my favorites. The plot, the characters, the crime. It was just a damn good book. It was one of those books that you know you will not go to bed until its finished. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Ugh, Tami Hoag, why must you keep me up nights? You know I have better things to do then tear through your latest suspense story, Deeper than the Dead. Why suck me into the small town of Oak Knoll in 1985? Sure, they have a serial killer on the loose and almost no technology in which to catch him (profiling is in its infancy, cell phones are the size of brief cases, and they rely on blood type evidence versus the DNA variety). But why bury the secret to the mystery in the families of a small group of fifth graders and their adorable teacher? You had to know that would be too compelling for me to set aside. Will ensuring that I am a bag eyed mess in the morning really solve anything?Pleas for mercy notwithstanding, Hoag's completely absorbing series launch does leave some plot lines unresolved, but the 1985 setting offers a unique spin on the police procedural details. Dark and disturbing in parts, Deeper also manages to question some bigger themes: innocence, evil, dysfunction, etc... I'm not sure how many serial killers could be running around this small Californian town, but I plan on checking Hoag's follow up, Secrets to the Grave.