I needn't have worried as the most needed to know history was explained very well when the past was brought up.

Then it dawned on me that the saga that was Sandy was no longer an issue so decided to dive right into the last book.

I my humble opinion this was nowhere near the better books in the series but still an essential read for the series with significant steps in the Sandy story line. I'd been told by a friend and Peter James fan to delve into another of his novels as the former was not his best work. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U. The Readers of Need You Dead will follow the twist and turns in the investigation of the death of Lorna Belling.

The latest in the Roy Grace series, this adventure sees him and his team hunting the killer of a woman whose body is found in a bath. Dedicated to authenticity, Peter James bases his books upon real life experiences he has witnessed through shadowing the Sussex Police. It’s a setup that leaves scant room for law enforcement officers or for Kyle Westergaard, the 12-year-old paperboy damaged since birth by fetal alcohol syndrome, who’s walked away from the wreck with a prize all too many people would kill for. 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. bestselling author, best known for his Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series, now a hit ITV drama starring John Simm as the troubled Brighton copper.Whilst it works very well as a standalone, reading in sequence will certainly add to the reading experience. Peter James is a global bestselling author, best known for writing crime and thriller novels, and the creator of the much-loved Detective Superintendent Roy Grace.

While I understand Roy's concerns over becoming a new father to his ex-wife's son, but the book spent way to much time on his thoughts about that, taking too much time away from the main plot.Brighton and environs are well depicted but a book which depends on police procedural as a hook has to be spot on. This is a story about a victim, not a body count, a pure quality realistic police investigation into a death of a woman to find out if it was suicide, accident or staged but it goes far deeper. Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, faces his most mysterious case yet in Need You Dead .

The characters are plausible; it's easy to visualise these relatively ordinary people whose behaviour is tipped out of kilter.

But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M. 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.