Roy Grace has moved with the times, but his occasional introspection allows the reader insight into the difficulties faced by 21st century policing. The possible culprit is faced with an overwhelming accumulation of evidence in a murder case, one involving Lorna Belling, a beautiful woman hairdresser in an abusive marriage, making her husband a suspect in her murder, along with the accused cop. Its a stressful time for Roy so he can be forgiven for maybe not being totally on the ball with the Lorna Belling case. Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, faces his most mysterious case yet in Need You Dead.

At the same time Roy has to organise the funeral for his former estranged wife, Sandy and bring their 10 year old son (that Grace only recently learned about) to a new life in England and integrate him into his new family. I'd been told by a friend and Peter James fan to delve into another of his novels as the former was not his best work. What should have been a straightforward murder investigation turns into a twisty cat and mouse hunt, with surprising results. Hours after learning that Greg, her married lover who was about to divorce his wife and rescue her from her controlling husband, isn’t really about to divorce his wife and isn’t even named Greg, hairdresser Lorna Belling’s unexpectedly violent final confrontation with the faithless adulterer leaves her dead and her killer working feverishly to erase all traces of his involvement with her.Enjoy more of the Brighton detective’s investigations with Dead If You Don’t and Dead at First Sight. Need you Dead is a straight-up, no nonsense police procedural with all that is expected from this genre. The ending was somewhat of a mystery as there were a few questions that didn't get answered and I thought were a bit odd, I can only hope these will be addressed in the next book. 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. I my humble opinion this was nowhere near the better books in the series but still an essential read for the series with significant steps in the Sandy story line.

Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.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.

This was my first venture into the hugely successful Roy Grace series, and after THOCH, I didn't really know what to expect having been left a little underwhelmed. Another suspect is a respected member of the community who was in an extra-marital relationship with her. Synonymous with plot-twisting page-turners, Peter has garnered an army of loyal fans throughout his storytelling career – which also included stints writing for TV and producing films. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U. A fatal car accident that was anything but accidental has jarred loose a stash of methamphetamines and cash that’s become the center of a battle between the Sons of Freedom, Bakken County’s traditional drug sellers, and MS-13, the Salvadorian upstarts who are muscling in on their territory.Tot er op een dag in haar geheime plekje iemand haar om het leven brengt en ze dood in bad wordt aangetroffen. I believed there was, and it was looking more and more likely I'd guessed the real murderer quite early on.