Not Dead Enough
The third novel in the award winning Detective Superintendent Roy Grace crime series.

"James just gets better and better and deserves the success he has achieved with this first-class series." - Independent on Sunday

"Hugely well paced, marvellously plotted, and it comes to a cracking ending" - Classic FM

The Observer review: "Peter James had a remarkable career before turning to multi-award-winning crime fiction. He was a film producer and bestselling horror writer, but his best work has been his crime series set in Brighton. Not Dead Enough ( Macmillan £ 12.99, pp400 ) is the third featuring seaside cop DI Roy Grace. This time, Grace is perplexed by a case involving a man who murdered his wife but who was also 60 miles away at the time. The result is very accomplished and I loved it." [Peter Guttridge]

Daily Mail review: "Be glad you're nowhere near the shark-infested waters of Brighton where James sets his ingenious police procedurals. How come on the night police believe he murdered his wife, Brian Bishop was 60 miles away? The answer will have you on the edge of your deckchair." [Carla Mackay]

"On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least, that's the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace who is called in to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful young Brighton socialite, Katie Bishop. Soon, Grace starts coming to the conclusion that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible feat of being in two places at once. Has someone stolen his identity, or is he simply a very clever liar? As Grace digs deeper behind the facade of the Bishops' outwardly respectable lives, it starts to become clear that all is not at all as it first seemed. And then he digs just a little too far, and suddenly the fragile stability of his own troubled, private world is facing destruction. .."

Peter explains why he created Detective Superintendent Roy Grace:
"Roy Grace is a new, and very different detective, based in Brighton, in England - a city that is the favoured place to live in the UK for first divison criminals (I was told this by a former Chief Constable). Grace's own experience and personal loss - his wife, Sandy, has been missing for nine years - leaves him open-minded to all methods of police work in order to find the truth about the cases he investigates - and to try to find out what happened to his wife. He uses everything available, from high tech to old fashioned police slog, from forensics and pathology analysis, and because of his own interest in the paranormal, is open to input from mediums and clairvoyants. I'm deeply fascinated by the many facets of police work, and particularly how it is changing with the times, and my research for the Grace novels takes me through almost all of it."

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- Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead

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