β Scribed by Peter James
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The latest spine-tingling murder case for Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - from the bestselling author of Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead
Peter James came to many readersβ attention via his immense success as a horror novelist, but his more recent career as a writer of effortlessly ingenious and readable crime novels has β perhaps unfairly -- eclipsed his earlier work. (The author has claimed that he was, in any case, always essentially a crime writer β even in the days of his earlier acclaim).
Not Dead Enough marks another welcome appearance for the authorβs quirkily characterised policeman Roy Grace (who weβve already met in Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead). Here, Grace is investigating the bizarre slaying of a member of Brightonβs social elite, Katie Bishop. Her husband, Brian, appears to be in the clear β he was in another town at the time, sound asleep. But Grace begins to suspect the presence of a doppelgΓ€nger: is someone else -- nigh-identical to Bishop β involved? As in his previous cases, Graceβs diligent exhuming of murky secrets soon demonstrates that the Bishopsβ outwardly settled lives had darker corners. And as Grace gets close to the truth, he finds β paradoxically β that itβs his own beleaguered private life which is on the line.
. With Not Dead Enough, weβre soon reminded that Peter Jamesβ mΓ©tier has long been machine-tooled plotting, and that particular skill doesnβt desert him here. James himself spends time with the police of the Brighton area (his own beat) and that research is seamlessly freighted into the narrative here.
Readers are confronted with a dizzying variety of tales of murder and deception these days, but this one has an individual strand that marks it out from the crowd. --Barry Forshaw
'I loved it.' -- Observer
Library : General
Universes : Roy Grace [03]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781405092036
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