Book info

• Title Dead Man's Footsteps
• Author Peter James
• Year 2008
• Genre Mystery

Amid the tragic mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton businessman and ne’er-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifeline: to shed his debts, disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Six years later the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman’s body in a storm drain in Brighton leads Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe, and into a desperate race against time to save the life of a woman being hunted down like an animal in the streets and alleys of Brighton.

Thoughts

This was another good Grace story, a bit lengthy in places and the pacing wasn’t perfect, but overall it was interesting. The dipping back and forth in time, particularly as one of the timelines was around the September 11th attacks in New York added rather than confused, and I enjoyed seeing how it all unwound itself. And that twist, right at the very end, it made my jaw actually drop!

Rating: 4 / 5