Dead Man's Footsteps

James, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330446134 ISBN 13: 9780330446136

Publisher: Pan, 2008

Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else’s perfum, and lemon-scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now, too late to change her mind and get out, with the metal walls pressing in around her, they lunged sharply downwards. Abby was about to realize she had just made the worst mistake of her life . . .

Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton businessman and ne’er-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime, to shed his debts, disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Six years later, the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman’s body in a storm drain in Brighton, leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe, and into a desperate race against time to save the life of a woman being hunted down like an animal in the streets and alleys of Brighton.

‘One of the most fiendishly clever crime fiction plotters’ Daily Mail

Review:

'Wondrous in its sheer detailing of the multiplicity and (mostly) awfulness of life among the rural poor up to 1900.'
-- Times Higher Education Supplement

Book Description:

From the bestselling author of Dead Simple, Looking Good Dead and Not Dead Enough comes this eagerly-awaited fourth Roy Grace thriller