In addition, I thought that Roy and Cleo weren't right, it seemed to have lost some of the character strengths in replacement for the police heavy duties. I'm struggling to provide more detail without spoiling things for readers who haven't read the previous books in the series so I'll move on. In the Autumn of 2012, Not Dead Yet toppled the 50 Shades Of Grey trilogy off the No 1 paperback fiction slot, ending its 25 week domination of the chart and in May 2015, You Are Dead, derailed The Girl On The Train’s 3 month chart domination going straight in at No 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller charts.

I believed there was, and it was looking more and more likely I'd guessed the real murderer quite early on.I my humble opinion this was nowhere near the better books in the series but still an essential read for the series with significant steps in the Sandy story line. While Grace awaits further developments, his own domestic drama continues apace with the burial of his first wife, Sandy, a train wreck of a woman who ran off a decade ago to a secret life in Germany, and his own trip to Munich to pick up Bruno, the 10-year-old he unwittingly fathered but has never met, and bring him back to his own home.

Its a stressful time for Roy so he can be forgiven for maybe not being totally on the ball with the Lorna Belling case. I think that the next book will hopefully explore this element of Roy's life in greater detail as I feel like this is potentially a great contribution to revving up the series. Superintendent Roy Grace is assigned to investigate the death of Lorna Belling, an apparent suicide by electrocution in a bathtub - but is it? But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M. THe central crime is solved, never fear, but a little taste of the next book and a continuing issue for that one is thrown in.Detective Superintendent Roy Grace was getting ready to go to Germany to pick up his son Bruno when he caught a case of the death of Lorna Belling. A dedicated man to his career but also one that has learnt lessons the hard way in the past about getting that balance between work and home. From the off Roy seems a little unbalanced, however it totally makes sense as he is just getting closure after the death of Sandy his wife who disappeared many years before. There were a lot of dry, boring police procedural passages which I usually enjoy in these books, but it didn't work this time. Need You Dead was a gift and my only worry, apart from THOCH was, I might not be able to understand when the main characters backstory is mentioned.