Review by Brian Lowen on show 22nd July 2010
The latest novel in the ‘dead’ series featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Brighton and Hove Police. All the titles in this series include the word ‘dead’.
The body of a teenager, dredged from the seabed off the Sussex coast, is found to be missing its vital organs. Soon two more bodies are found…
Caitlin Beckett, a fifteen-year-old in Brighton, will die if she does not receive an urgent liver transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down, Lynn, her mother, turns in panic to the internet and discovers a broker who can provide her with a black-market organ – but at a price.
As Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies, he unearths the trail of a gang of child traffickers operating from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a race against time to save the life of young street kid, while a desperate mother will stop at nothing to save her daughter’s life.
Another excellent book in this series, compelling, with detailed descriptions of the characters and the places in which they are set around the Brighton area.
Once again, we have a brief meeting (unknowingly) between Roy Grace and his wife who left him suddenly and without reason nine years ago. They pass on an airport escalator.
But, he now has a new love in his life – Cleo, the Coroner’s Assistant at the mortuary.
An excellent thriller, thoroughly recommended.
review by Brian
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