As a young boy "Grace had been addicted to cop shows on television, to books about detectives and cops of every kind- from Sherlock Holmes to Ed McBain. Peter James has also created a fascinating main character in Roy Grace. and to hope that Detective Superintendent Roy Grace can put it all together in time to save Michael Harrison's life. The fun for readers is to savor each page, to tease out the clues, to deduce what's going on. One simple prank- a riddle- which he then wraps up in a larger mystery and finally tosses into an enigma with even greater implications. Peter James does a Churchill with this same idea. What a fun book to read! The outcome of the prank itself is bad enough, and most writers would take that one idea, run with it, and have a good book.
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