Peter James

Dead Man's Time

Detective: Roy Grace
Location:  Brighton
Time:        Current
Genre:      Police Procedural

This is the ninth of the Roy Grace series. It concerns the brutal murder of an elderly lady and the theft from her own of both valuable antiques and a valuable watch, the only memento she and her brother have of  their father, a gangster murdered in New York ninety years previously. As Grace and his team seek the killers, the brother, himself a wealthy man begins his own brutal search for the killers and the watch.

At the same time a released convict plans a horrific revenge on Grace for putting him inside for 12 years by plotting an attack on Grace's partner and their new son.

In other aspects of the underlying story arc, we learn more about Grace's first wife who disappeared a number of years ago and who is now living under a new identity in germany, but who may be planning to return to Brighton.

The story builds to a climsx in New York with the elderly man eventually seeking revenge on the descendant of his father's murdered.

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Previously read
Dead Simple
Looking Good Dead
Not Dead Enough
Dead Man's Footsteps
Dead Tomorrow
Not Dead Like You
Dead Man's Grip
Not Dead Yet