Dead Like You

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When it comes to thriller series', it can sometimes seem like once you've read three - you've read them all. You start to question how different they can get, how much more can an author concoct into their characters lives, with a faint worry of becoming bored. On my sixth instalment in the Roy Grace series, and it's safe to say - I am far from bored!

None of the victims, bar the last one, have any particular personality traits beyond liking shoes. Of all the women in the book, only Cleo is not terrible, complaining bitch. And even her personality seems to primarily be "not the ex."This is the first book I've read by Peter James, and there's just something about the way he writes women that makes me deeply uncomfortable. The violence against women in this book is extreme, which I understand comes with the territory in crime fiction, but it's presented in such a way that the women become nothing more than objects of lust and violence. A woman is not just found naked after she is assaulted, no - she is spread eagle, with her genitals and breasts described in detail. Le Grand Prix de littérature policère, shortlisted, La Mort Leur Va Si Bien (French translation of Looking Good Dead) When unsolved crimes resurface, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace faces a possible copycat killing in Dead Like You, by award winning crime author Peter James. Within one week of each other, two brutal rapes happen in Brighton, with a very similar MO to one of Roy Grace's cold case-criminals, The Shoe Man. Dedicated, and hopeful, to put this criminal behind bars after twelve years of searching, Roy Grace and his team find themselves knee-deep in a vicious case with some truly horrific details...

There's also a lot of the main detective getting to virtue-signal just how much he hates rapists, to the extent that something about it just felt off to me. Like yeah, of course he does. I would have assumed so, so why does the author feel like he has to keep telling me?Yes there is some forward development of the character, but compared to the other books in the series it seems that DS Grace and the rest of his team are secondary characters this time around with what felt like much less than a quarter of the story given over to them and their detection of the case. Maybe Peter James was struggling this time with where to take Grace etc. Maybe his publisher edited it down to a more manageable length. Who knows. Either way it didn't feel like a DS Grace novel, more like a spin off in which he and his team had a cameo role. Think CSI: Miami with a character from one of the other franchises popping up. Grace is an adaptation of international, bestselling author Peter James’ award winning novels, with over 21 million Grace novels having been sold to date. Episodes one and three (Dead Like You, Not Dead Yet) are written by Ben Court and Caroline Ip, with Ed Whitmore writing the second film (Dead Man’s Grip). Crime writer Peter James to receive honorary doctorate". brighton.ac.uk. 24 July 2009. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012 . Retrieved 4 August 2009. What an episode this is! From the very opening scenes you get that ominous sense that something dark is about to happen. With two separate events happening at the hotel on the same night, we are swiftly introduced to a number of key suspects in what turns out to be a serious sexual assault. Amongst them are a number of serving police officers, the key one of which is Grace’s new boss, ACC Cassian Pewe, portrayed in excellently smug and affected style by Sam Hoare. He and Grace have history and this new investigation in which Pewe becomes one of the prime suspects will not help calm the waters. Millard, Rachel (22 September 2015). "Crime writer's wedding bash goes off with a big bang". The Argus . Retrieved 20 May 2021.

He is married to Lara James (m. 2015). [2] His first, 19-year marriage was to Georgina Wilkin, from 1979 until 1998. [3] Shortlist for Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award 2009". digyorkshire.com. 2 June 2009 . Retrieved 17 June 2009.

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Not: "Yarın Biri Ölecek" Roy Grace serisinin 5. kitabı, "Senin Gibi Ölü" de 6. kitabı. Çakal yayıncılar büyük ihtimal insanlar "ben ilk 5 kitabı okumadım o yüzden bundan başlamayayım" demesin diye kaçıncı kitap olduğunu yazmıyor o yüzden bu tarz 2. sınıf polisiye romanları okumadan önce Goodreads'e bir bakmak faydalı. Özetle hayatımdan giden bir 660 sayfa daha...

It has been some time since I last read “Dead Tomorrow” and so glad to be catching up with Roy’s personal life while reading that his professional life gave challenging cases for our delight. I find Roy’s character to be pretty good and quite likeable. Metropole, Μπράιτον. Ύστερα από ένα πρωτοχρονιάτικο πάρτι, μια γυναίκα ζει έναν βάναυσο βιασμό καθώς επιστρέφει στο δωμάτιό της. Μια εβδομάδα αργότερα, μια άλλη γυναίκα δέχεται επίθεση. Ο δράστης παίρνει τα παπούτσια και των δύο θυμάτων. Ο αστυνομικός διευθυντής Ρόι Γκρέις συνειδητοποιεί ότι αυτές οι νέες υποθέσεις έχουν πολλές ομοιότητες με μια ανεξιχνίαστη σειρά εγκλημάτων που είχε συγκλονίσει την πόλη πριν από πολλά χρόνια. Ο τότε δράστης είχε ονομαστεί «Παπουτσάς» και ήταν ύποπτος για τον βιασμό πέντε γυναικών προτού δολοφονήσει το έκτο θύμα του και εξαφανιστεί. Τον αντιγράφει κάποιος ή ο «Παπουτσάς» επέστρεψε; Όταν περισσότερες γυναίκες δέχονται επίθεση, ο Γκρέις πιστεύει ότι έχουν να κάνουν με τον ίδιο άντρα. Και ότι ανατρέχοντας στο παρελθόν –μια εποχή που εκείνος και η εξαφανισμένη πλέον σύζυγός του , η Σάντι, ζούσαν ευτυχισμένοι μαζί– ίσως θα μπορέσει να βρει το κλειδί για να λύσει το μυστήριο. Σύντομα ο Γκρέις και η ομάδα του θα βρεθούν σε έναν απελπισμένο αγώνα ενάντια στον χρόνο για να εντοπίσουν και να σώσουν τη ζωή του νέου έ��του θύματος…" (Περίληψη οπισθοφύλλου) The autistic character, Yac, was a big issue for me too. He's presented more as a caricature of autism, and not a very nice one, than as a human being.Originality: This is a story which has been told before. There was no real originality to the plot, but there were some interesting bits. I did appreciate the good detail of procedural investigation and the handling of rape victims and appreciated Grace’s awareness of the impact of rape on its victims.