Top left: Gaynor Faye as Kellie Bryce, Luke Ward-Wilkinson as Max Bryce, Leon Stewart as Branson and Adam Woodyatt as Tom Bryce top right: Adam Woodyatt as Tom Bryce and Gaynor Faye as Kellie Bryce Cue the already troubled Bryce family’s life drastically unravelling while Detective Grace attempts to get behind the high-tec smoke and mirrors to reveal the shocking plot-within-the-plot. His teenage son Max manages to unlock the stick… and dad and son witness a live screening of a horrific murder, the details of which they decide to keep away from Tom’s wife/Max’s mum Kellie. The plot: Tom Bryce finds a memory stick left behind on a train seat, and brings it home, ostensibly planning to do a bit of domestic detective work in order to return the stick to is owner. James penned 18 books in the Roy Grace series, and both the first ( Dead Simple, 2005) and this one, the second in line published in 2006, have been adapted into feature-length films for ITV in the popular Grace series of crime dramas. Eighteen million people across the globe are familiar with the character of crime writer Peter James’ Brighton-based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace: a complex man haunted by the disappearance of his own wife, now hell-bent on solving seemingly unsolvable murders and wrongdoings on his own East Sussex coast beat.

Mark Timlin, Independent Sharply plotted, suitably sordidĭaily Express James dreams up a horrific intersection of extreme perversion and Internet technology in his frightening, expertly constructed second Det. Enjoy more of the Brighton detective’s investigations with Not Dead Enough and Dead Man's Footsteps. But when they plan the murder of the Bryce family, it’s not just revenge – it’s entertainment.Īlthough the Roy Grace novels can be read in any order, Looking Good Dead is the second gripping title in the bestselling series. Learning that Tom has made a statement to Grace’s team, the killers have to act.

But this attempted act of kindness makes him the sole witness to that same vicious murder. When a young woman’s body is found butchered in Brighton, Roy Grace cannot help but think of his own missing wife and her unsolved fate.Įlsewhere in the city, when Tom Bryce finds a disc left on a train, he simply tries to do the right thing – return it to its owner. Now a major ITV series, Grace, adapted for television by screenwriter Russell Lewis and starring John Simm.

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace has to solve a disturbing murder whilst protecting an innocent eye witness, in this TV tie-in edition of Looking Good Dead, by award winning crime author Peter James.

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