In 1981, Gaffney was terrorised by The Rainy Day Abductor. Local girls went missing and two boys made a terrifying discovery. Now one of them has come home, to try and lay the past to rest. "Very strong writing and with a nice evocation of time and place. West conjures the sense of a particular era with skill and the horrors he finds there are universal."

• Gary McMahon, author of “Silent Voices” and “Dead Bad Things” "Mark West has a knack for making the bonds that bind friends and family tangible and very real. In "What Gets Left Behind" those bonds reach forward from the past to ensnare Mike and draw him back to a place he never wanted to visit again..."
• Ian Whates, author of The Noise Within