In "Left for Dead," DS Jones is back among his childhood friends as he and Barnaby investigate the strange death of an elderly couple. The place has been trashed, yet silver was left behind. The man looks as if he was pushed down the stairs, but the woman doesn't have a mark on her. It turns out she died of a pulmonary embolism, probably brought on by trauma.
The town is going through a lot of chaos, as protesters are trying to stop a bypass which will destroy a home. The entrepreneur behind the bypass is Jack Purdy (Matthew Flynn) who is seen as a bully. His brother, Mark (Shaun Dooley) is about to be married to Louise (Kate Miles). But another murder will delay the honeymoon.
Barnaby suspects that the current murders are tied to the death and disappearance of two boys years ago, within a week of each other. One was the Michael, the son of the dead couple, who died in an auto accident, and the other, a young boy named Patrick Bradley, who disappeared. His mother (Marion Bailey) is sure that the last people to see him alive - the Purdy brothers, Louise, and some others, all of whom were young kids, know what happened to her son.
This is an intriguing story but I do have to admit that it sort of falls apart at the end and indeed, turns into a horror movie. It could have been written a little better.
However, it will certainly keep your interest.
