Having read this book a few years ago, the opening scenes slowly eased me back into the plot and prodded my memory, making me wonder how the sometimes violent and fast-moving action scenes would be delivered. This world premiere stage production of Looking Good Dead, currently playing in Woking, stars Adam Woodyatt – Ian Beale of Eastenders fame, and Gaynor Faye, a familiar face from Emmerdale, Coronation Street and The Syndicate.Īdapted for stage by writer Shaun McKenna, Looking Good Dead follows previous stage adaptations of The Perfect Murder and Dead Simple by James, although it is a stand-alone piece and requires no back knowledge.

Check out the Peter James TV UK YouTube channel, that not only points you in the direction of his best-selling Detective Superintendent Roy Grace ‘Dead’ series, but his other interests as well, including his ventures into TV and stage. Google him, and you will see the extent of his popularity and reach. His best-selling novels are consistently characterised by a pacy and absorbing style, accentuated by short chapters and voice shifts. Enjoy more of the Brighton detective’s investigations with Not Dead Enough and Dead Man's Footsteps.I first picked up Peter James in a hotel in Crete a few years ago and he has since become an entertaining and absorbing companion on a variety of Mediterranean sunbeds and helped keep my patience together during the inevitable airport gate delays on holidays ever since with his brutal and inventive killings, smart plot twists, and interesting mainstay characters. Although the Roy Grace novels can be read in any order, Looking Good Dead is the second gripping title in the bestselling series. But when they plan the murder of the Bryce family, it’s not just revenge – it’s entertainment. Learning that Tom has made a statement to Grace’s team, the killers have to act. But this attempted act of kindness makes him the sole witness to that same vicious murder.

Elsewhere in the city, when Tom Bryce finds a disc left on a train, he simply tries to do the right thing – return it to its owner. When a young woman’s body is found butchered in Brighton, Roy Grace cannot help but think of his own missing wife and her unsolved fate. Now a major ITV series, Grace, adapted for television by screenwriter Russell Lewis and starring John Simm.

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace has to solve a disturbing murder whilst protecting an innocent eye witness, in this TV tie-in edition of Looking Good Dead, by award winning crime author Peter James.

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