Dead Simple - book 1
It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his
best friends are dead, and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three
days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Grace - a man haunted by the
shadow of his own missing wife - is contacted by Michael's beautiful,
distraught fiancee, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought
to know Michael Harrison's whereabouts is saying nothing. But then he has a
lot to gain - more than anyone realizes. For one man's disaster is another
man's fortune ...
Looking Good Dead - book 2
Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking
up the CD that had been left behind on the train seat next him, and attempting
to return it to its owner, he is the sole witness to a vicious murder. Then
his young family are threatened with their lives if he goes to the police. But
supported by his wife, Kellie, he bravely makes a statement, to the murder
enquiry team headed by Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a man with demons
of his own - including his missing wife - to contend with. And from that moment,
the killing of the Bryce family becomes a mere formality - and a grisly
attraction. Kellie and Tom's deaths have already been posted on the internet.
You can log on and see them on a website. They are looking good dead. 'Destined
for the bestsellers' - "Independent on Sunday". 'A terrific tale of greed,
seduction and betrayal' - "Daily Telegraph".
Not Dead Enough - book 3
On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in
bed at the time. At least, that's the way it looks to Detective Superintendent
Roy Grace who is called in to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful young
Brighton socialite, Katie Bishop. Soon, Grace starts coming to the conclusion
that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible feat of being in two places
at once. Has someone stolen his identity, or is he simply a very clever liar?
As Grace digs deeper behind the facade of the Bishops' outwardly respectable
lives, it starts to become clear that all is not at all as it first seemed. And
then he digs just a little too far, and suddenly the fragile stability of his
own troubled, private world is facing destruction ...Praise for "Looking Good
Dead": 'James is a master plotter ...this follow-up to "Dead Simple" cannot fail
to thrill' - "Daily Mail". 'Will have you glued to your deckchair' - "Observer".
Dead Man's Footsteps - book 4
'Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel
smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else's perfume, and lemon-
scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now, too late
to change her mind and get out, with the metal walls pressing in around her,
they lunged sharply downwards. Abby was about to realize she had just made the
worst mistake of her life ...'Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning
of 911, failed Brighton never-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime,
to disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Five years later the
discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman's body in a storm drain in Brighton,
leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe, and
into a desperate race against time to save the life of a woman being hunted down
like an animal in the streets and alleys of Brighton.
Dead Tomorrow - book 5
Lynn Barrett is a single mother, trying to cope with life after divorce. And her
life becomes an even bigger nightmare when daughter Caitlin is diagnosed with
terminal liver disease. She is put on the transplant waiting list, but there is
a world shortage and most patients will die while waiting. In desperation, Lynn
turns to the internet and discovers an organ broker who can provide her with
a liver but it will cost Lynn GBP250,000. To save her daughter she mortgages her
home and borrows from family and friends to raise the money. A few days later
the organ broker tells Lynn she has found a young woman, a perfect match for
Caitlin, who is in a coma following a car smash in Italy. Meanwhile Roy Grace
is working on the case of the remains of three young people recovered from the
seabed off the coast of Brighton. These remains lead him to a Romanian
trafficking organization of street kids from the Eastern bloc for the UK sex
trade; some of them are also traded as organ donors ...
Dead Like You - book 6
Don't imagine for one moment that I'm not watching you... The Metropole Hotel,
Brighton. After a heady New Year's Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she
returns to her room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims'
shoes are taken by the offender . . . Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon
realises that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved
series of crimes in the city back in 1997. The perpetrator had been dubbed
'-Shoe Man' and was believed to have raped five women before murdering his
sixth victim and vanishing. Could this be a copycat, or has Shoe Man resurfaced?
When more women are assaulted, Grace becomes increasingly certain that they are
dealing with the same man. And that by delving back into the past - a time in
which we see Grace and his missing wife Sandy still apparently happy together -
he may find the key to unlocking the current mystery. Soon Grace and his team
will find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to identify and save
the life of the new sixth victim...
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