From the careless toss of her long fair hair, the sunglasses she adjusted on her face, the bling Cartier bracelet, the Anya Hindmarsh bag slung from her shoulder, the toned contours of her body, the Mediterranean tan, her wake of Issey Miyake tanging the rush-hour monoxide with a frisson of sexuality, she was the kind of girl who would have looked at home in the aisles of Bergdorf Goodman, or at the bar of a Schrager hotel, or on the stern of a fuck-off yacht in St-Tropez. In contrast, everything about the young woman oozed class. Several of the cars that lined the street, shoehorned into not enough parking spaces, were dented and rusting, and all of them were saturation-bombed with pigeon and seagull shit. Now, behind their grimy, salt-burned facades, they were chopped up into bedsits and low-rent flats the brass front-door knockers had long been replaced with entryphone panels, and litter spewed from garbage bags onto the pavements beneath a gaudy riot of letting-agency boards. The front door of the once-proud terraced house opened, and a long-legged young woman, in a short silk dress that seemed to both cling and float at the same time, stepped out into the fine June sunshine on the last morning of her life.Ī century back, these tall, white villas, just a pebble’s throw from Brighton’s seafront promenade, would have served as weekend residences for London toffs. Enjoy more of the Brighton detective’s investigations with Not Dead Enough and Dead Man's Footsteps. But when they plan the murder of the Bryce family, it’s not just revenge – it’s entertainment.Īlthough the Roy Grace novels can be read in any order, Looking Good Dead is the second gripping title in the bestselling series. 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. 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.Įlsewhere 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. 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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