Roy Grace · Book 2

Looking Good Dead

Published
1 January 2006
Pages
336
ISBN-13
9780786718801
Type
novel
Cover of Looking Good Dead

About this book

Looking Good Dead is the 2nd book in the Roy Grace series, written by Peter James, published in 2006 at 336 pages. It follows Dead Simple and precedes Not Dead Enough in the reading order.

Key facts about Looking Good Dead

Peter James wrote Looking Good Dead, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2006. The book has 336 pages.

We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780786718801 to find the main one.

Looking Good Dead is book 2 of 24 in the Roy Grace series. The series has 24 published books. However, the series starts with Dead Simple (2005). Dead in Three Two One is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 22 October 2026.

That series sits on our police procedural shelf. Meanwhile, Dead in Three Two One is the latest published Peter James book on file, from 22 October 2026.

About Peter James

Peter James is a British crime novelist best known for the Roy Grace series, following a Brighton-based detective superintendent whose cases are complicated by his own long-running personal mystery — the unexplained disappearance of his first wife years before the series begins. See every Peter James book in order.

Its place in Roy Grace

Looking Good Dead is book 2 in the Roy Grace series. It follows Dead Simple. It is followed by Not Dead Enough. See the full Roy Grace reading order.

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace runs Major Crime for Sussex Police out of Brighton, a city Peter James renders with the same obsessive, insider detail he brings to procedure itself — James spent years riding along with real CID officers, and it shows in the forensic accuracy of every investigation. Each novel (all titled with some variant of the word "Dead") is a self-contained case, but Grace's personal life runs as a serialised thread underneath: the unexplained 1997 disappearance of his first wife, Sandy…

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