The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!
Review by Kim Cantrell
In an ever expanding global market, American readers are discovering the exciting works of authors from abroad. And this is never more so true as it is with British authors of the suspense thriller fiction genre.
Let me make this proclamation now, one of the best British writers I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading has to be Peter James.
Recently I was introduced to James with his newest release Dead Like You.
In his sixth novel featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a serial rapist known as The Shoe Man – called so because of his penchant for ladies’ designer shoes and the horrendous things he forces his victims to do with them - is on the prowl again among Brighton’s upper class after being dormant for 12 years.
DS Grace hasn’t forgotten The Shoe Man’s last victim: Rachel Ray. Unlike other victims who lived to tell about their nightmarish experience, Ray just simply disappeared. Did The Shoe Man escalate from rapist to murderer?
Working at a feverish pace, DS Grace searches for the identity of The Shoe Man before he goes underground again.
This isn’t the only problem that plagues DS Grace, however. At home he is juggling a pregnant fiance as he seeks to have his wife, Sandy, declared legally dead after she simply disappeared one day over a decade ago.
Could Sandy have been a victim of The Shoe Man too?
Dead Like You is a fast pace, very engrossing read that’s difficult to put down.
Using real life police procedures of the UK coupled with frighteningly too real crime scenarios, James weaves a novel that will leave you never looking at your shoes the same again.
I so enjoyed this book that I’ll definitely be seeking out more in the Roy Grace crime series.
Although Dead Like You won’t be published in the U.S. until November 2010, it is now available in the U.K. version.
Visit Peter James’ website at www.peterjames.com. And if you Twitter at all, you must follow his very active, often humorous tweets @peterjamesuk.
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