A Switcheroo from the Earlier Series
Peter James, a well-known novelist has a good proven record as a screen plays writer and producer. His novels have the credit of being chosen for many times as the top ten best sellers in Sunday Times. Rendered into thirty languages, they have been celluloid also.
In his every novel, a deep, thorough and in-depth study of police system is gone through marked with enthusiastic research. Having a good knowledge of procedural investigation and of medicine and science, he has successfully brought out twenty books altogether. ‘DEAD LIKE YOU' is the sixth novel in Roy Grace Series.
Roy Grace is a superintendent of police working in Brighton, England. The writer has also born and grown in the same town. With the help of Sussex Police, he came to know many things about the Police and their Operations.
‘Dead like you' is a crime novel. With the brutal murder of a woman after raped in a park, the Roy Grace Series started in 1978. Until now, it is continuing.
The story begins with the murder on a New Year day. Within weekdays, another woman meets with the same fate, after raped at midnight. The case falls in the hands of Roy. Do the two murders occur for a mere cause of shoes? Whodunit? It is a mystery. Afterwards, five murders go in series without tracing out the culprit. The thing that perplex is that the murderer did not take anything except the expensive designer ‘new shoes' of the assassins. These incidents have occurred in 1997. An assumption for another two murders has prevailed in those days.
The murderer was nick named as ‘shoe man' for fancy. The murderer hides still his where about and what about. After twelve years, now again a murder of same modus operandi occur.
Here, an interesting incident takes place. Roy's wife Sandy has been disappeared. They were lovely couple without any differences in between them. His attempts for finding Sandy, proves to be futile. After knowing about Roy, we get suspicion on him for her disappearance. The writer does not suggest anything to make him suspicious. The police aware of facts do not open mouth. We have to go through 548 pages patiently to unfurl the suspense. Even though, the knot is untied.
This is the specialty of Peter James style of writing. We feel we may get what we want in the next page. The pages go on turning over but with an enthusiasm and zest, even though we cannot get the answer to the sustained suspense.
A girlfriend, Cleo, they stay together. She gets pregnant. He consults a lawyer with fore sight, to cease the nuisance that may come in the way on the return of his wife. This is the insinuation, which leads us suspect him. An abrupt end, the novel close over.
The story line dawdles between dual times, present and the past belonging to 1978, giving a choppy fragmented read. However, shillyshallied between two times, the narrations go on par with the respective time, creating an interest through the lines. Two cases that have gone in a similar way go dissimilar depicted with the possible four incidents. With twists throughout, the novel does not bore the reader. What happened to Sandy? It is a mystery. A mystery-mastery, ‘Dead like You' is worth reading, if not yet read the crime and suspense thrillers of James earlier. If read, this, the latest one of the series frustrate the reader for its lack of previous integrity of knit and wit.
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