Love You Dead

Its place in Roy Grace

Love You Dead is book 12 in the Roy Grace series. It follows You Are Dead. It is followed by Need You Dead. 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…