Book info

• Title Dead Tomorrow
• Author Peter James
• Year 2009
• Genre Mystery

The body of a missing boy is dredged from the seabed off the Sussex coast, missing vital organs. Soon after, two more bodies are found... A teenager in Brighton will die if she does not receive an urgent transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down her mother takes drastic action and goes to an online broker in black-market organs. The broker can provide what she wants, but it will come at a price. As Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies, he unearths a gang of child traffickers operating from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a race against time to save the life of a young street kid, while a desperate mother will stop at nothing to save her daughter’s life...

Thoughts

I absolutely loved the first book in this Roy Grace series, and whilst the intervening few novels have been very good, none has quite grabbed me like that first one did. This, however, was right up there. There’s ongoing character and relationship development with the team that is always enjoyable, but the wider mystery was also really, really fascinating. The sad story of a teenage girl who needs a transplant, alongside the black market of organ selling, and quite a lot of dodgy characters in between. A cracking read.

Rating: 5 / 5