Another great Roy Grace read, a favourite character of mine and this one didn't disappoint, a bomb, a kidnapping drugs and even a crocodile, all came together in a fast paced well told story

Really great read.

I have read all of Roy Grace novels from Peter James and expect my passion for the author to wain at some stage. It definitely did not in this one. After thirteen other novels based around the central character I expected I would be bored. In fact, just the opposite, because the author left out many of the familiar intricate relationship story lines and it worked well.

The characters were interesting and well developed and, as a football fan ,I found the bomb at the football stadium fascinating.

I guessed the first part of the kidnap but after that I went with the flow of the author’s story.

Thank you to NetGalley, Pan Macmiilan and Peter James for my ARC in return for my honest review.

Excellent Read. Highly recommended.

Peter James is the master of British Crime drama. As with all the Roy Grace books this book was fast paced, gritty with lots going on! I loved the way all the various sub plots were linked and how Grace races against time, superbly aided by his team. A bit of a back seat for Cleo in this novel and obviously much more to come on Bruno's strange attitude, but a great story, told brilliantly. Couldn't put it down, read it in less than 24 hours!

I've read a number of the Roy Grace novels and have always found them really easy to get into and have been half way through the book before I know it.

Dead If You Don't was no exception. Set around the kidnapping of a local boy from a football stadium and a bomb scare in the same football stadium - DCI Grace thinks they must be linked, he's suspicious of coincidences.

There are a number of crimes in this novel all linking to the Albanian 'mafia' in Brighton and all with a link to the missing boy - or at least the link seems to be the head of the mafia family.

Peter James always manages to get really topical issues into his books which makes the plot relevant and more believable. He clearly does a lot of research into police work.

As a main character Roy Grace is not quite James Bond, but he is always willing to put his life on the line to save the day, thankfully he seems to have more lives than a cat and hopefully he'll continue to keep the streets of Brighton safe for a long time.

I really enjoyed this book and the supporting characters and their back stories add to plot and make you care about the characters. Glenn Branson in particular is a favourite reoccurring character of mine.

Looking forward to the next Roy Grace adventure. Thank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to review this book, this is my honest opinion.

Another thrilling page turner from Peter James,

I devoured it in a weekend! I'm a big fan of Peter James' Roy Grace crime novels, not least because I live very near to a lot of the locations in the book, and have visited quite a few of them. This makes the experience of reading the books ever more real, and this was certainly true of Dead If You Don't. The Amex stadium, home to Brighton and Hove Albion is the star location for the start of the book, and having been there many times, it was really chilling to picture the scene of a bomb threat inside the stadium. The story develops from there, and in true Peter James style, the story is told through multiple characters.

The timeline is also very important, with the hour markers reminding you how tense the story becomes. I found myself really feeling the tension, and wanting to keep reading to find out what happens. What I love about the Roy Grace books is that you don't have to wait until the very end for a major plot development or cliffhanger, they are dropped into the text unexpectedly, and you often have to read on quite a bit to find out the conclusion. Plus, anything can happen, so you cannot bank on a happy ending!

Despite there being many books in the series, they are not formulaic or predictable and address a different concept or notion each time. This time it was around the Albanian community in Brighton and Hove, and you do get a really good insight into this world.

I would have no hesitation in recommending this book, and I have no doubt that I will re-read it at least once.

First of all, I would like to thank Pan Macmillan and Net Galley for a copy of this book. This is the 14th novel in the Roy Grace series.
Kipp Brown is a successful businessman but also a compulsive gambler. He has gambled all his money away and is broke. He is at the Amex Stadium with his teenage son Mungo to watch Brighton and Hove Albion, when Mungo sees his friend Alexander and he runs off to meet him. Kipp continues to his cooperate box for the game but there is no sign of Mungo when the game starts.
Also at the game is Roy Grace with his son. Even on his day off he can’t help himself. He sees a suspicious looking man with a camera. And when the man abandons the camera he goes to check it out. To discover that it’s actually a bomb, when he realises what it is, he runs it out of the stadium with it.
Kipp is wondering where his son is, when he gets a saying that kidnappers has got his son and they want £250,000 in bitcoin for his release. As Kipp has money problems he contacts the police. Roy grace is heading the team.
I have heard great things about the Roy Grace series. I must confess, before this, I had only read the first one. I really enjoyed this. Loved the action and violence and the overall story. Peter’s writing flows nicely and it’s easy to read. I can’t wait to read the rest in the series.

Dead if you don’t- Peter James 5* 17th May- Netgalley
When a bomb is placed in a football stadium and the stadium boss is told not to go to the police things are a little tense. His son disappears on the same day and is likely to be held ransom. What no-one knows is that Kipp is stoney broke, he has gambled everything away and more . Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is at the stadium with his son and is soon involved in the action. This is my first Peter James novel (I know- where have I been and what have I been reading all these years?! ) and yes- the author absolutely lives up to his reputation. You are drawn in from the word go and kept there right until the end, and even thrown around a little in the middle.This is a stand alone book -there was nothing I felt I was missing not having read the 13 others in the series. A brilliant plot, wonderfully executed. I might just be reading another one in the future!
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