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Description: You Are Dead : Paperback : Pan Macmillan : 9781509898947 : 1509898948 : 01 Aug 2020 : The eleventh Roy Grace novel by one of Britain's best-loved crime writers, Peter James. The Book Depository You Are Dead by Peter James - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Author: dollytrolley
Rating: 5
Review: Brilliant from start to finish . Looking forward to book number 12 Great books for anyone that enjoys detective stories
Author: Amazon Customer
Rating: 2
Review: I’ve read all the books so far up to this one. Increasingly, they are feeling formulaic and strained, but there are also a couple of major errors in this one. The author takes pride, mostly deserved, in making sure he follows police procedure and his research is excellent. However, after a while it comes across as repetitive and unnecessary, perhaps only there to stretch the story a little. I’m not sure either about the use of actual, living police personnel: I can’t see any particular benefit in this and it is distracting. The parallel story in the series regarding Grace’s ex wife is beginning to grate, especially as it could have been dealt with fairly simply (saying more might be a spoiler), ironically perhaps by using police procedure. Many of the characters are mere ciphers. In other books, that may not matter, but when a character appears for one paragraph only, do we need to know what they look like and what they are wearing? This doesn’t flesh them out - it’s a poor substitute for proper development and, in any event, unnecessary. Cassian Pewe is a cardboard cut-out antagonist. Cleo is little miss perfect, and Sandy (and her weird inconsistent back story) is just an irritation. As for the plot, it was obvious who the baddie was, and the author’s fixation on the torture of women is becoming a little unsavoury. All in all, after eleven books, we know what to expect and it can make the outcome a little predictable - there certainly weren’t any unexpected twists, although the author may have thought there were.
