One character central from the start was just thrown away, completely wasted storyline, the man storyline was predictable and as for 2 of the other subplots they were very poorly given one paragraph to conclude in what can only be described as a damp squib of a conclusion. Six 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 the city of Brighton. So once again, I feel as though it’s actually something wrong with me as a reader that led to me not enjoying this, rather than Peter James’ fault as an author.

The whole city of Brighton awaits Gaia’s arrival, including her dangerously obsessive Number One fan looking for revenge and an anxious Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, charged with protecting Gaia. But as events rapidly begin to unfold, Roy Grace and his team find themselves in a desperate race against time to save Gaia’s life from a clever maniac who will stop at nothing to kill her. A Twist of the Knife is Peter James’s gripping first full-length collection of short stories, including the novellas The Perfect Murder, Footloose written with Val McDermid and In The Nick of Time written with Ian Rankin.Right before megastar Gaia travels to England for a big movie role, her look-alike assistant is murdered outside Gaia's gate.

Then he gets the terrifying message that someone has his child, and to get him back alive, Kipp will have to pay. 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. For rock superstar, Gaia, desperate to be taken seriously as an actor, this is the role that could get her an Oscar nomination. He’s also running a far less glamorous murder investigation centred around the discovery of a headless and limbless torso found buried under piles of chicken droppings on a Berwick farm.

Whereas the petty, vain, drug-addicted male lead, Judd Halpern, is the kind of actor you could understand any producer wanting to slap! The Harcourts decide to make a big life change, moving from th entre of Brighton to an old Georgian mansion in the depths of the Sussex countryside.

The obsessions with the rock superstar Gaia didn't really interest me, but certainly gave the book a different perspective that I surprisingly enjoyed; it made the plot a little bit different. I felt there was far too many references to irrelevant characters, maybe if you've read the previous books involving Roy Grace they would mean something to you but they were lost on me and just meant I had to skim paragraphs.The slight hint of unrealism is still there especially in the significant figure from his past who I do hope is brought to the fore in the next book as that back story is starting to drag on quite a bit. Soon Grace comes to the frightening realization that he may have underestimated just how dangerous this lady is.