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

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From the off Roy seems a little unbalanced, however it totally makes sense as he is just getting closure after the death of Sandy his wife who disappeared many years before. Ich habe die gesamte Roy Grace Reihe gelesen und finde, dass dieses Buch zu den spannendsten (aus dieser Reihe) gehört. There was no need for graphic descriptions of the horrific event, all it took was a telephone conversation and my own imagination. Now I will be total honest and say that this is my first Peter James Book and although it reads perfectly well as a stand alone, this is a series that I want to go back to the beginning and read them all.

There is the aftermath of the suicide of Grace’s first wife and all the complications of expatriating the body from Germany to the UK and the funeral arrangements to be organised.In doodsangst maken we kennis met Lorna, die in een gewelddadige relatie zit en er een affaire op nahoudt. The first one, Dead Simple, was excellent and the plot of this one involving the detective work is good.

Von "Luft raus" kann hier überhaupt nicht die Rede sein - zumal die Reihe mit diesem Buch noch lange nicht zu Ende ist. Nothing is as it seems and investigating officers need to refer constantly to the ABC basics; assume nothing, believe no one, challenge everything.Need you Dead is a straight-up, no nonsense police procedural with all that is expected from this genre.

Although Corin Belling does everything he reasonably can to draw suspicion that he’s killed his wife, Grace and his team from Major Crimes keep working the case and soon uncover other suspects: unsuccessful salesman Seymour Darling, who’s been convinced that Lorna scammed him ever since his payment for her MX5 vanished into cyberspace, and independent financial consultant Kipp Brown, who forensic evidence indicates knew Lorna much better than he’s willing to admit. Then other scenarios begin to present themselves, each of them tantalisingly plausible, until, in a sudden turn of events, and to his utter disbelief, the case turns more sinister than Grace could ever have imagined. 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. Her husband, Corin, was a very brutal individual with a vicious temper that Lorna invariably felt the impact of. Doodsangst van Peter James is het 13e en tevens het laatst vertaalde Nederlandse deel van de Roy Grace serie.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. Such a possibility betrays the trust implicit in the job in which each policeman relies on all the others to watch his back. The original run was followed by the play of Dead Simple in 2015, starring Tina Hobley and Jamie Lomas which was an equally big success during its 6-month nationwide run. I can't reveal any of the story as it would spoil previous books but just know that it is excellent as always and if this a genre you enjoy please read from the beginning! In addition, I thought that Roy and Cleo weren't right, it seemed to have lost some of the character strengths in replacement for the police heavy duties.

under his belt, he has achieved global book sales of over 20 million copies to date and has been translated into 37 languages. James strikes a good balance between the professional and personal sides of Roy Grace's life, each enhancing the other. Despite some serious information overload—including a glossary of police terms, a chart of police ranks and insignia, and a superabundance of police characters—James has never forgotten how to make the pages fly.

I have a confession, Peter James in one of my favourite authors so I am always excited at the thought of reading one of his novels. It seemed to be so much more impersonal than the other books and the characters were not their usual selves.