All These Bodies

* Indie Next List Pick * Indie Bestseller *

Sixteen bloodless bodies. Two teenagers. One impossible explanation. In this edge-of-your-seat mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake, the truth is as hard to believe as it is to find.

Summer 1958. A gruesome killer plagues the Midwest, leaving behind a trail of bodies completely drained of blood. 

Michael Jensen, an aspiring journalist whose father happens to be the town sheriff, never imagined that the Bloodless Murders would come to his backyard. Not until the night the Carlson family was found murdered in their home. Marie Catherine Hale, a diminutive fifteen-year-old, was discovered at the sceneβ€”covered in blood. She is the sole suspect in custody.

Michael didn’t think that he would be part of the investigation, but he is pulled in when Marie decides that he is the only one she will confess to. As Marie recounts her version of the story, it falls to Michael to find the truth: What really happened the night that the Carlsons were killed? And how did one girl wind up in the middle of all these bodies?

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304 pages

Average rating: 6.38

21 RATINGS

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Megan Brink
Jan 20, 2025
6/10 stars
It really kept you intrigued through the book but the ending was very disappointing. Will not read this again. Not my cup of tea
Jmaybay
Mar 08, 2024
6/10 stars
"𝑺𝒉𝒆 π’”π’‚π’Šπ’… π’‡π’“π’π’Ž 𝒕𝒉𝒆 π’Žπ’π’Žπ’†π’π’• 𝒔𝒉𝒆 π’Žπ’†π’• π’‰π’Šπ’Ž 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒆 π’˜π’‚π’π’•π’†π’… π’˜π’‚π’” 𝒕𝒐 π’‡π’Šπ’π’… 𝒂 π’˜π’‚π’š 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒑 𝒉𝒆𝒓 π’Šπ’π’•π’ π‘΅π’†π’ƒπ’“π’‚π’”π’Œπ’‚β€™π’” π’†π’π’†π’„π’•π’“π’Šπ’„ π’„π’‰π’‚π’Šπ’“. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 π’‹π’π’Œπ’† π’˜π’‚π’” 𝒐𝒏 π’‰π’Šπ’Ž. 𝑩𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 π’‰π’‚π’π’ˆπ’Šπ’π’ˆ." 𝔸𝕝𝕝 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕀𝕖 π”Ήπ• π••π•šπ•–π•€ - Kᴇɴᴅᴀᴿᴇ BΚŸα΄€α΄‹α΄‡ ⭐ (6.5/10) Y'all I've been reading all these books with no time to write them down till now I'm trying to keep them in my head, but a girl been busy! Anyway! This one was mysterious, kinda fun though. I thoroughly enjoyed it, til the end. Which wasn't bad. Not at all. So this book was very dark as I said I expected as much, it's called All These Bodies... The two main characters are cute. They are indeed, two children reading the same book on the same page one is starting from the top, the other is starting from the bottom. You get the sense that is Marie may have made better decisions is she had just had a friend like Michael. He's such a good boy you just want all of this to be some giant misunderstanding and they will become friends and that just doesn't happen. The book goes from a what happened noir, to a supernatural turn & quite honestly, I'm just not into it. I could have done with some other explaination. I found the reason all the bodies were as they found them to be a bit of a cop out andI may stretch enough to call it lazy writing. However, it was all well written so IDK, I DON'T KNOW. I. DON'T. KNOW! The book lost a bit of star for the supernatural spin that got thrown in there, it lost a whole star got the ending. It felt like back peddaling to me. I know it was intentional, however. It could have just ended without it. Even if you hadn't added that bit we could have still been left wondering, but it felt a likeπŸ”πŸ’© to ME but who am I but a mere amateur reviewer. I did love the main characters like I said. Michael was great for his patience with Marie and his attempts to get closer to her and get his job done. Marie was great at not being an average Jane, great at everything girl. She was duped maybe and lead down a horrible path and is now paying for it and she is handling it with grace while showing everyone who isin charge. The book really was great despite the ending but even if i didn't care for it, it was still well written. Pick it up. It was a fun read. 𝕄𝕦𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕀 β„π•–π•’π••π•šπ•Ÿπ•˜ π˜‘π˜’π˜Ί π˜”π˜’π˜Ί π˜–π˜Άπ˜΅
tonyalee
Jul 19, 2023
10/10 stars
Well, this was unexpectedly delightful. Ironic, considering the thrilling content. I finished this pretty much in one sitting (two, actually) I was SO interested in where the story was going. My favorite is the writing and how Michael told his story - it dropped little hints of where things where going and how it would end.

I kind of dislike the ending - because it feels... unresolved? However, I also believe that is how it's meant to be, so we are able to think about whether or not what was said is true or not.

Defiantly recommend for those true crime and thriller lovers out there.

(also, true crime followers will recognize a few other famous (or infamous?) crimes mentioned.)

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