As a voracious reader, I’ve never felt bound to any one genre of publishing, though crime fiction certainly has primacy in my heart.

Need You Dead – Peter James

There was no need for graphic descriptions of the horrific event, all it took was a telephone conversation and my own imagination. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U. The central case in Need You Dead is the murder of the complicated and crossed-in-love Lorna Belling.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. Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award-winning author Peter James, faces his most mysterious case yet in Need You Dead. He gives me the impression that he has expert knowledge on everything pertaining to police and medical procedures. A fatal car accident that was anything but accidental has jarred loose a stash of methamphetamines and cash that’s become the center of a battle between the Sons of Freedom, Bakken County’s traditional drug sellers, and MS-13, the Salvadorian upstarts who are muscling in on their territory. If you like fast-paced, character-driven stories with a deep sense of place, then you’ll love the Roy Grace novels.

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She leaves behind no memories worth keeping: her husband is dead, her boss has made no bones about disliking her, and she’s looking forward to new responsibilities and the higher salary underwritten by North Dakota’s sudden oil boom. Need You Dead is a riveting page-turner where the action seems to increase the further into the book one goes. Guy Batchelor continued his assessment of the crime scene, reminded all the time of Roy Grace’s words.This is a skillfully executed, perfectly crafted police procedural that sees Detective Superintendent Roy Grace leaving Temporary Detective Inspector Guy Batchelor in charge of the latest murder while he heads to Germany to meet the son he never knew he had, but as often is the case this investigation may not be as open-and-shut as first believed and may just get a little bit more complicated before the case is closed. Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, faces his most mysterious case yet in Need You Dead.

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The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. Watching his relationship with Bruno develop as he learns more about his son takes the book to another level. While I found this to be an intelligent police-procedural mystery, I was initially a little disappointed with the short, choppy writing style in the first few chapters.I just loved the investigation that followed Lorna’s death, what a cracking story this is, so many times I thought I had it all sussed and have since come to the conclusion that I would make a dreadful detective. Love You Dead’ in hardback was Peter’s eleventh Sunday Times No 1 bestseller and Peter’s first non-fiction title ‘Death Comes Knocking’ written in association with Graham Bartlett, Head of Sussex Police was published in July 2016, scoring Peter a hat trick of titles in the Sunday Times charts within a month.