Left You Dead: A Realistically Creepy Crime Thriller (Roy Grace Book 17)

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Twisty-turny surprises populate the book alongside superb characters and although this is very much a domestic-based thriller, James manages to make it original and nail biting. They were on their way home from a day out visiting a stately manor when Eden, the wife, wanted to stop on the way for some kitty litter. This is one of the few ongoing sagas that still has me gripped, although the previous outing, Find Them Dead, left me feeling rather dissatisfied as the main character seemed to have been sidelined. For me Peter seems to waffle on and on about names, back history and police and hospital procedures, filling out a book with unecessary mundane writing that I find myself skim reading.

Found the whole Bruno thing could have been handled differently, Cleo has become dull and Humphrey the dog gets mentioned more than poor little Noah who always seems to be with the nanny or in bed poor little chap. Peter James is a global bestselling author, best known for writing crime and thriller novels, and the creator of the much-loved Detective Superintendent Roy Grace. In a nutshell, it’s a did he/didn’t he set-up, but James, one of the best storytellers around, keeps the clever plot motoring.I would like to thank both Netgalley and Pan Macmillan for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. Eden goes into Tesco's to pick up cat litter and never reappears, no sightings, no trace and no body.

Left You Dead is a well written, perfectly paced police procedural that sees Detective Superintendent Roy Grace and his team investigating the sudden disappearance of Eden Paternoster, a young woman who seems to have vanished without a trace after her husband dropped her off at a local Tesco, and even though the husband seems to be the most likely suspect from the very start something just doesn’t seem to fit, and this case may actually be a lot more complicated than anyone could have imagined. It felt silly at times and the whole Rebecca thing I guessed quite early on and wondered why Grace hadn't. I'd guessed the outcome early on and found everthing drawn out with pointless conversations that left me feeling frustrated. Leaving the book open for the next instalment in Grace and his team’s stories, I honestly don’t know how I’m going to wait!Left You Dead is the seventeenth instalment in the Roy Grace series and is Detective Superintendent Grace's most challenging case to date as he investigates the file of a missing woman in Brighton.