Dead Like You

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace (Volume 6)

Peter James

Minotaur Books

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The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a New Year’s Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims’ shoes are taken by the offender….Detective Superintendent Roy Grace realizes these cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes from 1997. Could this be a copycat, or has the perpetrator dubbed “Shoe Man” resurfaced?
Grace is forced to delve into his shattered past—a time before his beloved wife went missing and his world was destroyed—to 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, fifth victim….

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Chapter 1

Thursday 25 December

We all make mistakes, all of the time. Mostly trivial stuff, like forgetting to return a phone call, or to put money in a parking meter, or to pick up milk at the supermarket. But sometimes – luckily very rarely – we make the big one.

The kind of mistake that could cost us our life.

The kind of mistake Rachael Ryan made.

And she had a long time to reflect on it.

If…she had been less drunk. If…it hadn’t been so sodding freezing cold.

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“The most engrossing thriller since Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs.” ----The Washington Post 

“Sinister and riveting. Peter James is one of the best in the world.” –Lee Child

"U.S. readers deserve to know what the rest of the world has known for years--Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business." --Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of BROKEN and UNDONE

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Fiction Review: Dead Like You by Peter James, Minotaur, $25.99 (560p) ISBN 978-0-312-64282-2
Det. Supt. Roy Grace and his major crimes team discover disturbing similarities between two Brighton rapes in the thrilling sixth entry in James's popular U.K. crime series (Dead Simple, etc.). In par
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Peter James

Peter James is the #1 international bestselling author of the Roy Grace series with more than 5 million copies sold all over the world. His novels have been translated into thirty-three languages and three have been filmed.

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Dead Like You
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace (Volume 6)
Peter James

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St. Martin's Press
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September 2011
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ISBN: 9780312643201
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