Dead at First Sight: A Roy Grace Novel 15
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4.1 • 123 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, exposes the dark side of the internet in Dead at First Sight.
You don’t know me, but I thought I knew you . . .
A man waits at a London airport for Ingrid Ostermann, the love of his life, to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired NYPD cop waits in a bar in Florida’s Key West for his first date with the lady who is, without question, his soulmate. The two men are about to discover they’ve been scammed out of almost every penny they have in the world – and that neither women exist.
Meanwhile, a wealthy divorcée plunges, in suspicious circumstances, from an apartment block in Munich. In the same week, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to investigate the suicide of a woman in Brighton, that is clearly not what it seems. As his investigations continue, a handsome Brighton motivational speaker comes forward. He’s discovered his identity is being used to scam eleven different women, online. The first he knew of it was a phone call from one of them, out of the blue, saying, ‘You don’t know me, but I thought I knew you’.
That woman is now dead.
Roy Grace realizes he is looking at the tip of an iceberg. A global empire built on clever, cruel internet scams and the murder of anyone who threatens to expose them.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Chilling realism reverberates throughout Peter James’ Dead At First Sight, the 15th novel in the Roy Grace series. Here, the level-headed Detective Superintendent comes up against suspicious suicides and the very modern issue of identity theft. The crime genre is undoubtedly a saturated market, but James’ novels manage to stand out thanks to his air-tight research. His detailed, step-by-step police procedurals make for a graphic, engrossing reading experience—and he’s also a master of pacing who constructs surprising twists and turns with dexterity.
