Dead Simple (Roy Grace)

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Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates when a young woman’s body is found butchered in Brighton.

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The woo-woo of it all makes the front page of the tabloids the next day, and Grace’s boss asks him to do his damnedest to avoid public drama for a while. His DS Roy Grace books have been translated into 37 languages with worldwide sales of over 21 million copies. He uses everything available, from high tech to old fashioned police slog, from forensics and pathology analysis, and because of his own interest in the paranormal, is open to input from mediums and clairvoyants. So here we have the groom buried in a coffin in the woods and supposedly all the people who knew about it are dead. Let’s put it this way, he can sell this line: “A stag night is one thing, but you don’t decide to take a coffin on the spur of the moment.But it’s a lot more than a prank gone wrong, as we soon find out those closest to him plotted to murder him. Editor’s note: The following review contains spoilers for “Dead Simple,” the first installment of BritBox’s “ Grace. The novel begins with a group of friends coming together a few days before the groom, Michael Harrison, is to be married.

Dead Simple by Peter James - Pan Macmillan

British crime author Peter James is an unqualified success: He’s written 36 novels and sold more than 20 million copies of those books, which have been translated into 37 languages.

Read more: The unmissable dramas coming up in March and April on ITV1: Channel announces new spring schedule Is Grace based on a book? For the rest of us, it remains a big what if: What if this character, with this trauma, could be placed in a story that was more deftly told? But when his stag night prank goes horribly wrong, Michael finds himself alone, buried alive and staring death in the face.

Review: Dead Simple by Peter James - What Is That Book About

Simm, who never seems unbelievable in all of this abject foolishness, could definitely pull off this kind of simmering-beneath-the-surface acting, but that’s not on the page. First of all, Dead Simple was published in 2005, followed by Looking Good Dead in 2006, Not Dead Enough in 2007, and Dead Man’s Footsteps in 2008.He says: “It’s a seemingly straightforward missing person inquiry which twists off into territory awash with nightmare fuel. Judging by these reviews, “Dead Simple,” as it turns out, has been very faithfully adapted by BritBox — the online streaming service co-owned by the BBC and ITV — as an entry into its original programming roster. There is something to be mined here about how personal desperation can evolve into professional upheaval.