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Title: Dead Like You
Author: Peter James
Narrator: William Gaminara
Format: Abridged
Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-18-10
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publisher Ltd.
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
The new Roy Grace novel from the best-selling author of Dead Tomorrow.
The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Years Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims shoes are taken by the offender....
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realises that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. The perpetrator had been dubbed Shoe Man and was believed to have raped five women before murdering his sixth victim and vanishing. Could this be a copycat, or has Shoe Man resurfaced? When more women are assaulted, Grace becomes increasingly certain that they are dealing with the same man. And that by delving back into the past - a time in which we see Grace and his missing wife Sandy still apparently happy together - he may find the key to unlocking the current mystery.
Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to identify and save the life of the new sixth victim.
Members Reviews:
Enter Father Grace
Detective Superintedent Roy Grace is tired, exhausted as is his soon to be wife, Chole. They have a new seven week old son, Noah. As all parents know, the first year in a child's life is one of little sleep for the parents. Grace is worried that this lack of sleep will interfere with his job. One of his colleagues keeps interjecting his thoughts about how love leaves after a child enters the picture. What worries the new father has, as if he does't have enough troubles with a new murder to solve.
The victim, Aileen McWhirter, 92, is tortured to obtain the details of the combination of her safe as well as her bank account details. The thieves steal more than antiques, it turns out a valuables Patek Phillipe watch, a family heirloom has gone missing. Gavin Daly, Aileen's brother, is a very rich man who made his money via antiques. His son, Lucas it seems is a drug addict, and he and his father do not get on well. However, Daly and his son are determined to get the watch back, never mind the rest of the antiques. And,they work against the police which sets Grace's nerves on edge.
The mystery of the watch is a terrific plot, and the writing is solid and entertaining. There are several interesting twists and turns. And, of course, Sandy, the former lost wife, turns up while seeing a therapist in Germany. This part of the series has become so dull that I have come to dislike Sandy. She is not interesting nor a part of he plot that I want.
One of Grace's former prisoners, who hates Grace with a passion, is out on parole, and he is set to enact revenge. This part of the storyline is a litte off base, but brings some interest. Grace's travel to New York City is a part of the book that could have been deleted. Like Officer Cobb, I don't understand why Grace feels the need to be there.
One of Grace's colleagues is always eating Red Maltesers, and I finally googled to find out what they are:
'Maltesers are a confectionery product manufactured by Mars, Incorporated. Maltesers consist of a roughly spherical malt honeycomb centre, surrounded by milk chocolate. They are most popular in Denmark, the UK, Australia, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland, Canada, France, Hong Kong, and Portugal.
