Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #143 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-20
• Released on: 2008-06-12
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

Daily Mail
`Summer wouldn't be summer without an unmissable new Peter James novel'

Synopsis
'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 9/11, 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. Acclaim for "Not Dead Enough": 'Another smashing thriller from the UK's most respected crime writer' - "Daily Mirror".

Customer Reviews

Dead Man's Footsteps
The fourth and newest book in the Roy Grace series by Peter James introduces the reader first to Ronnie Wilson, a Brit visiting the US and New York City to try to enlist financial assistance for his latest money-making venture, one hopefully not doomed to failure as were his past endeavors. His business meeting, after which he plans to fly back to the UK, is scheduled for 9 AM in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001.

We next, in October of 2007, meet Abby Dawson, a 27-year-old woman who has just returned from Australia to her native England, and whose background is somewhat shadowy, as we are told she has done everything she can think of to disguise her identity, describing herself as a `fugitive.'

And then Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex Police enters the tale, when he is called in as Senior Investigating Officer after a skeleton, probably that of a woman of about 30 years old, is discovered in a storm drain within his community of the City of Brighton and Hove. Just a run-of-the-mill murder investigation, it would seem, until Roy realizes that the description perfectly fits that of his adored wife, Sandy, who had disappeared nine years before, at age 28 and on his 30th birthday, and had apparently `vanished off the face of the earth.'

The characters introduced in the earlier books are still here: Glenn Branson, still having marital problems; Grace's lover, Cleo, Chief Home Office pathologist, who has always been sympathetic to Grace's lingering and continuing search and nightmares concerning his wife; his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Alison Vosper; and his surprisingly fast-rising fellow D.S., Cassian Pewe, all of whom are made real in the author's terrific depictions of these disparate personalities.

As a resident of the metropolitan NY area, I can attest to the accuracy of the depiction of the feel of the city on that horrendous day and in its aftermath, and will not comment further on this aspect of the novel. The author expertly weaves together all the disparate threads in a suspense-filled tale with the surprises, twists and turns typical of this author, and a particularly stunning final sentence, leaving me avidly awaiting its sequel. Highly recommended.

Another brilliant book!
Another Fab book from Peter James! Brilliant read...couldn't put it down,...read it in 2 days!

Another winner for Roy Grace
POSSIBLE SPOILERS!

Yet another excellent piece by Peter James with Detective Superintendent Roy Grace once again embroiled in a torrid and twisting case, with James continuing to place tantalising clues as to the whereabouts of Grace's missing wife Sandy.

This is the fourth in the series and takes up from the catastrophe that was 9/11. This could have been a mistake, after all we've read and seen so much about this world changing event, but James has done this so well that it didn't come across as a re-hash of what happened, it was more a feeling of actually standing there in New York when the towers disintegrated and feeling the heart breaking emotions of those who were.

Along with the trauma of 9/11, back in the UK we have Abby stuck in a lift in such a way I was beginning to feel claustrophobic myself - talk about switching pace!

The story stretches across the world from New York to Brighton and over to Australia but at no stage did I feel lost and while it wasn't the hardest of plots to follow, the way in which it unravelled kept me reading from start to finish without a break.

The worst and best part of the book came in the very last sentence. Worst because I have to now wait 12 months to find out what happens next and the best because James is going to take us a little bit closer to finding out more about Grace's past!

Write quicker please Mr James!