Dead Man's Footsteps
The fourth novel in the award winning Detective Superintendent Roy Grace crime series.

"Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else's perfume, and lemon-scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now, too late to change her mind and get out, with the metal walls pressing in around her, they lunged sharply downwards. Abby was about to realize she had just made the worst mistake of her life ..."

Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 911, failed Brighton never-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime, to disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Five 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 Brighton.

Advance Praise for Dead Man's Footsteps:

"Dead Man's Footsteps is the fourth Roy Grace thriller. As in the rest of this bestselling crime series, Brighton is the base, but this time the action moves around the world. When dodgy dealer Ronnie Wilson finds himself in New York on the day of 9/11, he used the ensuing chaos to disappear. Five years later a skeleton is found in Brighton, and a decomposing body discovered in a car in Melbourne. The link between these events, and the fate of a young woman trapped in a lift in Brighton, is expertly revealed by master plotter Peter James in this gripping tale." - Georgia O'Keefe, Amazon.co.uk --The Bookseller's Choices For June 2008

:: Read more about the three previous Roy Grace novels
- Dead Simple , Looking Good Dead and Not Dead Enough

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