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Not Dead Enough Signed Edition (Signed Copy)

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Peter James is the author of several very successful thrillers, two of which have been made into successful TV films. More are in production now. He was born in 1948 and educated at Charterhouse. He lives in Sussex near Lewes.

I had forgotten how refreshing it was to read a crime thriller by a British author with British people and British places. I am a little tired of reading about New York `cops' or small American towns that have no meaning to the average British reader.

The night that Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was about sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. Strange, but that is the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace who is attached to the case involving the kinky slaying of the beautiful young Brighton socialite, Katie bishop.

Grace begins to come to the conclusion that her husband has performed the impossible, the feat of being in two places at once. Either that or someone has stolen his ID. The other possibility being that he is the best liar Grace has ever come across. However as Grace starts to get his teeth into the case it becomes clear that the Bishops' outwardly respectable lives were not all they seemed to be. But grace makes the mistake of digging just that little bit too deeply and suddenly his own troubled, private world is facing destruction . . .

Peter James is one of the finest writers around today and it is a mystery to me why he is not heralded more than he is. In this third Inspector Grace novel, James again shows what a fine writer he is and how he has the ability to capture and hold your interest until the final sentence. I understand that the fourth Inspector Grace novel has been published in England. I hope that means it will be available here soon.
While I especially like his Inspector Grace series, his other books, which are not technically mysteries, are extremely well written.

This is the first of this author's works which I have read and it is likely to be the last. He simply has too much explicit sex and graphic violence for my liking. The violence seems worst during the postmortems. It may appeal to others but not to me. Brighton is the setting but I do not think this will do anything to attract visitors. I think one may be meant to think you have uncovered the murderer fairly early on but there is one fairly incredible final twist.