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

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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.

Grace and his new wife Cleo have a fledgling relationship, with Grace conscious that his work does not come between them both. Whilst it works very well as a standalone, reading in sequence will certainly add to the reading experience. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs.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.

EXCERPT: At the first salon she worked in after qualifying as a hairdresser, Lorna had a client who was an anthropologist at Sussex University. 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. 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. For another, the job she turns out to have been hired for—leading an investigation her new boss doesn’t feel he can entrust to his own force—makes her queasy.

Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, faces his most mysterious case yet in Need You Dead . Esta novela se lee con interés, y aunque no está entre las que más me gustan del autor, creo que merece la pena seguir con la serie. Need you Dead is a straight-up, no nonsense police procedural with all that is expected from this genre. With his new baby son Noah and the expectant arrival of Bruno, Grace has his hands full, but violence and crime continues to plague the streets and Grace soon finds himself engrossed in a very complex case.