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

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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.

I'm a huge fan of Peter James and have also read a few of his 'non-Roy Grace' books (he has written horror/thrillers as stand-alone) and they are also brilliant so keep your eyes peeled for this author. Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, faces his most mysterious case yet in Need You Dead . I just loved the investigation that followed Lorna’s death, what a cracking story this is, so many times I thought I had it all sussed and have since come to the conclusion that I would make a dreadful detective. What hurt Lorna the most is when she finds out Greg had lied about everything, when she trusted Greg.bestselling author, best known for writing crime and thriller novels, and the creator of the much-loved Detective Superintendent Roy Grace. Although Lorna Belling a hairdresser was married to Corin she planned to leave him, she was having an affair with a man named Greg. However, it becomes clear pretty early on this will not be straightforward and the book itself leans heavily on the police procedural.

Like a game of chess, Grace is forever moving from square to square seemingly one space behind all the time. 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. A dedicated man to his career but also one that has learnt lessons the hard way in the past about getting that balance between work and home. The story real consists of the police procedural investigation into the suspicious death of a local woman Lorna Belling, who is known to the police because of domestic violence incidents between her and her husband.The readers of Need You Dead well learn about the issues parent and child have when it is the first time they meet each other. 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.

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. 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. Her husband, Corin, was a very brutal individual with a vicious temper that Lorna invariably felt the impact of. 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.Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man.

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! Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage from hell, falls for the charms of another man who promises her the earth. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.

Initially the case seems relatively straightforward but as the layers are peeled away, Grace soon discovers that this is a very complicated crime. Love You Dead’ in hardback was Peter’s eleventh Sunday Times No 1 bestseller and Peter’s first non-fiction title ‘Death Comes Knocking’ written in association with Graham Bartlett, Head of Sussex Police was published in July 2016, scoring Peter a hat trick of titles in the Sunday Times charts within a month. 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.