One of Us Is Dead

Its place in Roy Grace

One of Us Is Dead is book 22 in the Roy Grace series. It follows They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story. It is followed by The Hawk Is 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…