Review by Brian Lowen 16th July
Shortlisted for ITV 3 Crime Thriller Awards
Another book in the Roy Grace series – all have ‘dead’ in the title.
I have read all four previous books involving Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Brighton and Hove Police Force and they are all excellent crime thrillers and I thoroughly recommend them.
The storyline:
On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least that’s the way it looks to Roy Grace, who is called in to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful young Brighton socialite, Katie Bishop.
Grace soon starts coming to the conclusion that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible feat of being in two places at once. Has someone stolen his identity or is he simply a clever liar? As Grace digs deeper behind the façade of the Bishop’s outwardly respectable lives, it becomes clear that everything is not at all as it first seemed.
Another two murders follow before the killer is eventually tracked down, but not before Roy Grace’s girlfriend – the pretty mortician – is attacked, only to be rescued in the nick of time by her hero, Roy Grace.
A very tense thriller that grips you right from the start. The detail of the Police investigation is fascinating and would probable be more interesting if you knew Brighton well.
I’m not giving too much away to say that the killer turns out to be Brian Bishop’s twin brother who like him was adopted at birth, but by different parents and did not become so successful in life as Brian, and he has been insanely jealous after he found out who his twin brother was.
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