Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace)

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A synopsis of the Not Dead Enough episode shares: “Months on from his last investigation and with Grace’s team still reeling from the fallout, Roy must hurry to prove that a wealthy Brighton businessman has brutally murdered his wife in an impossible new case.”

On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed. At least that’s what he claims. But as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace continues to deal with the mysterious disappearance of his own wife, he starts to dig a little deeper into the chilling murder case and it soon becomes clear that love can be a dangerous thing… His numerous television credits include: Fagin in Oliver Twist – The Dad’s Army Story titled We’re Doomed! for BBC1 Gemma is also a writer and performance poet. This year her debut play ‘The Jam Diaries’, an experimental spoken word piece looking at the concept of human connection in the modern world, enjoyed a hugely successful showing at Summerhall in Edinburgh. It is due to be further produced in 2017 with Thrive Theatre.Zoe also reveals that Cleo’s “life is endangered as part of the storyline”, and that the near-death experience raises the stakes of their relationship. Katie's husband, Brian, is playing golf when he hears the news. He seems less than upset, so when Grace and his team discover that Bishop lives in London during the week and only comes home at weekends, they have their suspicions. We are also introduced to Sophie Harrington, a film production assistant and Bishop's girlfriend. Or is she? She thinks she is, but he emphatically denies it. At this point, the experienced crime fiction reader will spot a few plot flaws (which aren't resolved), and even readers new to the genre will not have too much difficulty figuring what is going on very early on in the book (the final twist is easy to guess, and isn't much of a twist). Nevertheless, having set up the plot, Peter James wisely switches most of the rest of the book to the police detectives involved in the case, and tells the story from their perspective. We discover more about Grace and his developing relationship with mortuary assistant Cleo, which is abruptly derailed by a reported sighting of Grace's wife, missing for nine years. Glenn Branson has marital problems so moves in with Grace, but is a slob; the repellently amusing Norman Potting has a welcome cameo, having apparently acquired a Thai bride over the Internet since the last book. The uneasy relationship of the police with the media and the public is woven into these stories and those of other police colleagues and investigations. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace thinks he’s found a serial killer, but not everything is as it seems in Not Dead Enough, by award-winning crime author Peter James. Now a major ITV series, Grace, adapted for television by screenwriter Russell Lewis and starring John Simm.

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