Need You Dead: A Creepy British Crime Thriller (Roy Grace Book 13)

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This book could have been about 120 pages shorter if it wasn't for all, the extraneous procedural stuff and chapter after chapter of family stuff.

Roy Grace has moved with the times, but his occasional introspection allows the reader insight into the difficulties faced by 21st century policing. There appears to be some animosity between himself and one of his superior officers, which I’m sure has an interesting backstory, but the one feature that does stand out in this book is his absolute concern for his co-workers. That early human beings communicated entirely by telepathy, and we only learned to speak so that we could lie. With the paperwork of the three previous cases to clear up the last thing Grace needs is a who-dun-nit murder of a married women in a flat she rented away from her husband.Doodsangst van Peter James is het 13e en tevens het laatst vertaalde Nederlandse deel van de Roy Grace serie. I am usually very good at working out the murderers in novels, but I take my hat off to Peter James here. I'm struggling to provide more detail without spoiling things for readers who haven't read the previous books in the series so I'll move on. Peter James is a global bestselling author, best known for writing crime and thriller novels, and the creator of the much-loved Detective Superintendent Roy Grace.

Cassandra Dewell can’t leave Montana’s Lewis and Clark County fast enough for her new job as chief investigator for Jon Kirkbride, sheriff of Bakken County. What hurt Lorna the most is when she finds out Greg had lied about everything, when she trusted Greg. I am so pleased to have followed the advice of a Peter James fan and read a novel from the Roy Grace series. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace was getting ready to go to Germany to pick up his son Bruno when he caught a case of the death of Lorna Belling.

Lorna’s body has been discovered in a secret hide away flat in a run down area but the scene just doesn’t add up. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Book 13 would be an odd starting point but the book could actually read and enjoyed as a standalone as could any of the Roy Grace books.

The motivation for this possible crime raises many complications for Grace and his team, with the constant shifting of the sands. I think that the next book will hopefully explore this element of Roy's life in greater detail as I feel like this is potentially a great contribution to revving up the series. While thebooks in this series may easily be read as stand-alones, you will reap the full benefit of the back-story and character development if you read them as a series.Peter James also highlights in Need You Dead the problems families have when one of them are members of Law enforcement.

Born and brought up in Brighton, Peter divides his time between his homes in Notting Hill, London and Sussex. Her husband, Corin, was a very brutal individual with a vicious temper that Lorna invariably felt the impact of. Need You Dead is a fast-paced, accomplished novel that will keep the reader turning the pages at speed. After hearing that his ex-wife has committed suicide in Germany, he discovers that he has a ten-year old son, Bruno, that he knew nothing of.What should have been a straightforward murder investigation turns into a twisty cat and mouse hunt, with surprising results. bestselling author, best known for his Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series, now a hit ITV drama starring John Simm as the troubled Brighton copper. under his belt, he has achieved global book sales of over 19 million copies to date, and has been translated into 37 languages.