by Peter James
Book 16 in the Roy Grace series
published 2020
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Roy Grace, creation of the award-winning author Peter James, unearths a powerful criminal network in Find Them Dead.
Ending his secondment to London’s Met Police, Roy Grace gets a tip-off about a county lines drugs mastermind operating out of Brighton. On his first day back in his old job in Sussex, he is called to a seemingly senseless murder.
Separately, Meg Magellan finally has her life back together, five years after the car crash that killed her husband and their son. Her daughter, Laura, now 18, is on her gap year travelling in South America with a friend, and Meg misses her badly. Laura is all she has in the world.
In between jobs, Meg receives a summons for jury service. She’s excited – it might be interesting and will help distract her from constantly worrying about Laura. But when she is selected for the trial of a major Brighton drugs overlord, everything changes.
Gradually, Grace’s investigation draws him increasingly into the sinister sphere of influence of the drug dealer on trial. A man utterly ruthless and evil, prepared to order the death of anyone it takes to enable him to walk free.
Just a few days into jury service, Meg arrives home to find a photograph of Laura, in Ecuador, lying on her kitchen table. Then her phone rings.
A sinister, threatening stranger is on the line. He tells her that if she ever wants to see Laura alive again, it is very simple. At the end of the trial, all she has to do is make sure the jury says just two words . . . Not guilty.
I did not read the whole of the book .i have however read the rest of the books over the last couple of years .I did get a sample on my kindle as it my habit to choose to read if it excite my interest .however the sample seemed short and did not simulate me to read more . i felt it lacked something of the other books in this series and so because of that and due to the price i passed on this .whoever i need to be honest that i decided to re-read the sample and discovered that i had not finished the sample .i now have finished but still did not buy due to the price £10 for a book is a lot for a fan of this series as pensioner i try to set a limite as i read a lot when will publishers realise that some people people cannot pay these prices