Dead If You Don't

b>A PARENT'S WORST NIGHTMARE IS GRACE'S DEADLIEST CASE . . ./b>Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, faces his most complex case yet in Dead If You Don't.Kipp Brown, successful businessman and compulsive gambler, is having the worst run of luck of his life. He's beginning to lose big style. However, taking his teenage son, Mungo, to their club's big Saturday afternoon football match should have given him a welcome respite, if only for a few hours. But it' at the stadium where his nightmare begins.Within minutes of arriving at the game, Kipp bumps into a client. He takes his eye of Mungo for a few moments, and in that time, the boy is gone. Then he gets the terrifying message that someone has his child, and to get him back alive, Kipp will have to pay.Defying instruction not to contact the police, Kipp reluctantly does just that, and Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is brought into investigate. At first it seems a straightforward case of kidnap. But rapidly Grace finds himself entering a dark, criminal underbelly of the city, where the rules are different and nothing is what it seems . . .

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Peter James has penetrated the inner workings of police procedures, and the inner thoughts and attitudes of real detectives, as no English crime writer before him. His hero, Roy Grace, may not be the most lively cop, nor the most damaged by drink, weight or misery, but he's one of the most believable The Times

Product details

• Authors: Peter James
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2018
• EAN: 9781509816361
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-1636-1
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 233 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Roy Grace; 181 GRAND; 181 GRAND; Roy Grace
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Sussex, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Brighton and Hove, c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019