Waiting on | Deeper Than The Dead by Tami Hoag
UK Cover
Title: Deeper Than The Dead
Author: Tami Hoag
Publication date: December ’09
Genre: Thriller
US Cover
California, 1984. Three children, running in the woods behind their school, stumble upon a partially buried female body, eyes and mouth glued shut. Close behind the children is their teacher, Anne Navarre, shocked by this discovery and heartbroken as she witnesses the end of their innocence. What she doesn’t yet realize is that this will mark the end of innocence for an entire community, as the ties that bind families and friends are tested by secrets uncovered in the wake of a serial killer’s escalating activity.
Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with interpreting those now revealed secrets. He’s using a new technique-profiling-to develop a theory of the case, a strategy that pushes him ever deeper into the lives of the three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own.
As new victims are found and the media scrutiny of the investigation bears down on them, both Mendez and Navarre are unsure if those who suffer most are the victims themselves-or the family and friends of the killer, blissfully unaware that someone very close to them is a brutal, calculating psychopath.
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I don’t read many thrillers, but I have to say that US edition cover is so very striking. I love the chill and brilliance of the fall leaf colors, and I almost missed the skull in the corner, until I read the synopsis and realized there should be something sinister there, and looked for it.
I, too, didn’t realize there was a skull hidden among the leaves until I increased the picture size and posted on my blog. I like the UK more than the US cover. I’m drawn to the colors on the UK cover but then that might be a bit obvious by looking at my blog.
For once I like the U.S. cover better. That happens so rarely, but I can see how the British cover is set off so nicely by your blog, Marcia. I haven’t read anything by Hoag, but I’ve heard some good things and I do like mysteries and thrillers.
I’ve never been attracted much to warm-based colors so the US cover didn’t do much for me. I tend more toward cool or jewel tones. I’m also really surprised at how completely different the two covers are.