Left You Dead: A Realistically Creepy Crime Thriller (Roy Grace Book 17)

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There’s also a tragedy in the life of one of the investigators that brings an added heartbreaking dimension. What follows is an, as expected, police procedural as the team question Niall Paternoster and gather information from various sources. I haven’t read any of the other books and understood this one could be read as a standalone, but maybe some of the side stories tie into the series as a whole?

Also, this is crime fiction and not bioethics, but the utilitarian equation of 'not going to recover' to being 'dead' scares me. This book presented us with a very clever and engaging mystery that shape shifted every time we looked at it.

It was something that should take a lifetime to recover from and yet he was back at work the next day, making plans and decisions, albeit breaking down in tears now and again. One of the storylines that seemed to be irrelevant might have been because it was a major point in a previous book? They had absolutely nothing to do with the murder mystery and I’m at a loss as to why they were included to be honest.

Husband and wife Niall and Eden Paternoster spend Sunday taking a long drive to visit a stately home and a quick stop at the local supermarket to get cat litter for the family pet. The novel opens with a recounting of Eden’s disappearance from Niall Paternoster’s point of view and this sets the tone, a relatively straightforward account that seems true until the doubts creep in and the reader is unsure what to believe.The characters related to the case are mostly pretty unpleasant people although it is hard to pick a “winner” here. The mystery did have me hooked and invested in trying to figure out what was going on, until a conversation about halfway through, that, to me, gave it away immediately. Peter James is a global bestselling author, best known for writing crime and thriller novels, and the creator of the much-loved Detective Superintendent Roy Grace. I like my detectives complicated and enjoy hearing some of their stories apart from the investigation. The finale is extremely exciting and in a great setting and I can see that making terrific TV viewing when the filming eventually catches up to this instalment.

If you are after a compelling police procedural with a likeable main character you can't go past Left You Dead. Left You Dead is another edge of your seat crime mystery with James' signature short, sharp chapters it's an easy, quick read.She wasn’t home either so Niall finally went to bed thinking she’d gone off in a huff as she had done once before. I did guess the direction of the novel early on, but nothing prepared me for the detail, so I felt that I was hit hard by surprise after surprise and each new revelation caused me doubt my hypothesis and speculate even harder about events. The two aspects of the story, the mystery and the “tagged on” personal tragedy, just didn’t fit for me. For me Peter seems to waffle on and on about names, back history and police and hospital procedures, filling out a book with unecessary mundane writing that I find myself skim reading.

under his belt, he has achieved global book sales of over 20 million copies to date and has been translated into 37 languages. Battling with a personal tragedy and a repugnant boss, Roy Grace is stretched to his absolute limits. I would like to thank Netgalley and Pan Macmillan for an advance copy of Left You Dead, the seventeenth novel to feature Detective Roy Grace of the Sussex Police Major Crimes Unit.

At times there is some repetition and on occasions it’s a bit over burdened with facts and some unnecessary detail. Roy Grace is toiling away as happy as he can be with a supervisor he can’t stand, in the Sussex Police. I was sure at some stage there would be a shocking revelation that would tie it in to the mystery, but nope.