![]() ![]() His uneasy relationship with his female boss, the local media and his role in today's politically correct police force are conveyed with confident conviction. One of the pleasures of this book is the personality of Grace, a policeman who has been around for many years, a true professional and on top of his game. Chapters splice between victims and predators, police and criminals, the pace building up almost unbearably as paranoia turns into reality. Tom's business and family life spirals out of control as the owners of the CD close in on him and exact terrifying revenge on Tom for his fateful curiosity. Just as he did so successfully with the stag-night prank gone wrong in his first Roy Grace novel, DEAD SIMPLE, James ratchets up the tension in LOOKING GOOD DEAD. ![]() The new book opens with a scene familiar to commuters - packed train, irritating man yelling down mobile phone - and quickly lurches into nightmare as passenger Tom Bryce innocently picks up an abandoned CD, takes it home, downloads it, and sees a murder. Peter James follows up his racily readable first outing for Detective Superintendent Roy Grace with a second, LOOKING GOOD DEAD, which is just as good, if not better. Review - Looking Good Dead by Peter James ![]()
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