Book info

• Title Dead Like You
• Author Peter James
• Year 2010
• Genre Mystery

The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year's Eve ball, a woman is attacked as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is assaulted. Both victims' shoes are taken by the offender... Roy Grace soon realizes that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. Dubbed 'Shoe Man', the perpetrator was believed to have attacked five women before murdering his sixth victim and vanishing. Could this be a copycat, or has Shoe Man resurfaced? When more women are assaulted, Grace and his team find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to identify and save the life of the new sixth victim...

Thoughts

I was less keen on this one than the previous Grace book. The crimes were just a bit distasteful, and I could never keep it straight which timeline I was in. But as always with these long-running detective series, even if you don’t like the mystery at the heart of it, there’s plenty to enjoy with the group of characters that pop up each time. Grace is ready to move on and start a new family, but is he going to be allowed to do so peacefully? Watch this space!

Rating: 2 / 5