Left You Dead: A Realistically Creepy Crime Thriller (Roy Grace Book 17)

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The finale is extremely exciting and in a great setting and I can see that making terrific TV viewing when the filming eventually catches up to this instalment. This is a very good series and although each book can be read as a standalone there are plenty of back stories for the regular reader to add to the enjoyment. Normally the police would not look into an adult missing person who was not vulnerable until after 24 hours but the attending officers thought there was something a little off with Niall so they start to look for Eden.

There’s two main plot lines at play in Left You Dead - the police investigation and a secondary plot that strikes the core of Grace’s family. He drives home hoping to find her there but all is quiet in the house, he rings family and friends but still no luck. Enjoy more of the Brighton detective’s investigations with Dead Simple, Looking Good Dead and Not Dead Enough. One of the storylines that seemed to be irrelevant might have been because it was a major point in a previous book? For me Peter seems to waffle on and on about names, back history and police and hospital procedures, filling out a book with unecessary mundane writing that I find myself skim reading.There's quite a lot going on in the book and Roy and Cleo are going through some tuff personal stuff.

Although it is at 17 it can easily be read as a stand-alone as the author gives sufficient background information so new readers can makes sense of ongoing stories.This book follows the investigation into a missing woman, Eden Paternoster, where her husband is suspected of her murder. Left You Dead is a well written, perfectly paced police procedural that sees Detective Superintendent Roy Grace and his team investigating the sudden disappearance of Eden Paternoster, a young woman who seems to have vanished without a trace after her husband dropped her off at a local Tesco, and even though the husband seems to be the most likely suspect from the very start something just doesn’t seem to fit, and this case may actually be a lot more complicated than anyone could have imagined. I did sort of guess where this storyline was going, but that didn’t detract from the enjoyment of it at all. I found the Bruno storyline slightly random and bizarre as if Peter James had run out of ideas about what to do with him. The ending was spectacular with a desperate cliff top situation where several lives are at extreme risk.