Dead at first sight / Peter James.
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- ISBN: 9781509816392
- Physical Description: 435 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Publisher: London : Macmillan, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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Subject: | Grace, Roy (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Police > England > Brighton > Fiction. Fraud > Fiction. Interpersonal relations > Fiction. |
Genre: | Mystery fiction. |
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 August #1
*Starred Review* Not since Judith Rossner's Looking for Mr. Goodbar has a novel so wrenchingly portrayed the perils of looking for love in all the wrong placesâin this case, on the internet. James presents a series of victims, including a retired British army major and a retired NYPD cop (people you would think would be the last to fall for an internet scam), and shows how easy it is to fall prey to the elaborately planned, psychologically manipulative, internationally coordinated game of "romance fraud." Series hero Superintendent Roy Grace, now head of the Major Crime unit for the Sussex, England, police, starts learning about this jaw-dropping scheme when a local man, the retired major, contacts the police after being totally cleaned out after months of sending money to a woman who doesn't exist. Murders and financial victims continue to mount. Two victims launch a revenge plot. The action is fast and furious, but, as in all novels in this series, it's held together by the unflappable character of Superintendent Grace. James' latest thriller has the added frisson that "romance fraud" is a real and operating phenomenon right now, with victimhood possible for anyone. James has won WHSmith's Best Crime Author of All Time award and the British Crime Writers' Association's Diamond Dagger award. Not to be missed. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2019 June #3
In British author James's enjoyable 15th novel featuring Det. Supt. Roy Grace (after 2018's
Copyright 2019 Publishers Weekly.Dead if You Don't ), international criminal Mr. Barrey uses his team of merciless internet scammers, children trained in Ghana, to trick elderly singles on dating sites into falling in love and giving up their life savings. When Mr. Barrey's business partner, Jules de Copeland, who has a penchant for wearing red shoes, goes rogue and sets up his own dating service, Mr. Barrey hires Grace's nemesis, the assassin Tooth, to find and kill de Copeland. Meanwhile, a man wearing red shoes is implicated in the death of a scam victim, initially believed to be a suicide, in Grace's territory of Brighton. This straightforward police procedural offers no plot twists or surprises, but James does a good job of detailing how the same modern technology that can wreak havoc can also help bring crooks to justice. Grace's accepting a new position in London at the end promises a fresh direction for this long-running series. James's many fans will look forward to seeing what's next for Grace.(Aug.)