‘You Are Dead’ by Peter James

My Review (5 stars out of 5)

A disturbing case sets Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on the trail of a serial killer. Someone is targeting young women who all have similar features. Bizarrely, those bodies that have been recovered have been branded with the words, ‘U R Dead’. Following the abduction of Logan Somerville, Grace tries to find links with murders from thirty years ago, before the killer strikes again…

This is book 11 in the Roy Crace series and gets off to an exciting start when a young woman is faced with a mysterious figure in a darkened car park. A frantic call to her fiancée gets the police involved, but by the time they arrive there’s no sign of the woman. This is an interesting story with what appears to be more than one killer at its centre, but who these people are and what their connection is to each other leads the police down several avenues that don’t help the investigation. As always, there’s the on-going saga of Grace’s missing wife Sandy, and a call from Germany places unwanted pressure on him. Meanwhile, the investigation leads to the house of a possible perpetrator where the team get to work searching for evidence. But it’s Grace himself who finally works out where the killer’s lair is.

This is a gripping tale with an exciting final section that had me chomping at the bit.

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