Dead Simple
Meet Roy Grace in This Pulse-Pounding Crime Thriller from the Multimillion-Copy Bestselling Author
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4.5 • 6 Ratings
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Publisher Description
‘Peter James is one of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world’ - LEE CHILD, author of the Jack Reacher series
Meet Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on his unforgettable first major case, in this TV tie-in edition of Dead Simple, the first instalment in the award-winning series by Peter James. Now a major ITV show starring John Simm.
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It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. But a few hours later, the groom has disappeared and his friends are dead.
With only three days to the wedding, Roy Grace is contacted by the man’s distraught fiancée to unearth what happened on that fateful night.
The one man who ought to know of the groom’s whereabouts is saying nothing. But then he has a lot more to gain than anyone realizes, for one man’s disaster is another man’s fortune . . .
Although the Roy Grace novels can be read in any order, Dead Simple is the first thrilling title in the bestselling series. Enjoy more of the Brighton detective’s investigations with Looking Good Dead and Not Dead Enough.
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23 million copies sold.
Creator of Her Majesty Queen Camilla’s favourite fictional detective.
'Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business' – Karin Slaughter, author of the Will Trent series
'One of the world’s most popular detective series' – The Guardian
‘The master of the craft’ - Daily Express
'Ruthlessly efficient entertainment. Pedigree fun' - The Times
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Claustrophobics might need to occasionally turn away from this nail-biting crime thriller. Dead Simple starts with a stag-night-prank that goes horribly wrong: Michael is buried alive, trapped in a coffin with only a walkie-talkie, a bottle of whiskey and some pornography for ‘help’. The first book of Peter James’ much-loved series introduces us to Roy Grace, the Brighton-based Detective Superintendent still mourning the loss of his wife. James expertly cranks up the suspense whilst smoothly developing Grace into one of our favourite British detectives. As Roy races against the clock the novel hurtles towards its nightmarish finish and becomes impossible to put down.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British author James's far-fetched but terrifying thriller is the first of a new series featuring Det. Supt. Roy Grace. Michael Harrison, a successful real estate developer with a penchant for practical jokes, gets a horrible taste of his own medicine. As a prank, four of his friends bury Michael alive in a coffin equipped with a breathing tube and a bottle of whiskey and leave him, ostensibly for a couple of hours. But when their van crashes head-on into a truck and three of them are killed (the fourth dies later "in hospital"), Michael is trapped. His cell phone doesn't work, but he does have a two-way radio whose companion is in the hands of Davey, a mentally challenged young man who finds the phone near the scene of the accident. Grace, a detective with a taste for the supernatural (he uses mediums to help him solve crimes), gets on the case and discovers just how devious Michael's friends have been. The "buried alive" trope is undeniably powerful, and Grace shows promise as a hero but the crime and the plot surrounding Michael's plight are just too cumbersome and transparent to really engage the reader.
