{"product_id":"9780330434201","title":"Looking Good Dead","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt's a tricky proposition, changing horses midstream. And with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLooking Good Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Peter James continues to do just that. The author's reputation as a purveyor of subtly chilling horror and fantasy had been carefully built up over many years, and James had few British peers in this field. But that is not quite the compliment it sounds, for the horror field is in one of its frequent slumps at present, and apart from a few American giants such as Stephen King, some highly talented figures have languished, in some cases even forfeiting their publishers. It's possible that Peter James saw the way the wind was blowing, and decided to move on from his hitherto lucrative horror work, returning to the crime arena (in which he'd worked before) with the adroit \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDead Simple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the inaugural book in the series featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace. If DS Grace was cut from a familiar cloth (copper struggling with psychological problems), the plotting was innovative and fresh.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnd so it's proved to be once again with\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLooking Good Dead\u003c\/i\u003e. Tom Bryce picks up a CD which has been left behind on a train seat, but when he attempts to track down the owner, he finds himself the only witness to a savage killing. Reporting the crime to the police has disastrous consequences for Bryce, and the lives of both he and his wife are threatened--by a notification on the Internet, no less. When DS Roy Grace becomes involved, he finds himself up against a malign group of very well organised criminals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs in Peter James' previous outing for Roy Grace, the plotting here is the thing. James addresses the crime genre as if he had never been away, and although Grace is, to be frank, not strikingly different from any other literary coppers, few people will complain when James' storytelling acumen is as authoritative as it is here.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter James","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Mass market (rack) paperback","offer_id":42732473155744,"sku":"9780330434201","price":6.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/1023449.jpg?v=1671485293","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780330434201","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}