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It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Gracea man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wifeis contacted by Michael's beautiful, distraught fiance, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrison's whereabouts is saying nothing. But then he has a lot to gainmore than anyone realizes. For one man's disaster is another man's fortune...Dead simple...
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Peter James was educated at Charterhouse and then at film school. He lived in North America for a number of years, working as a film-maker, before returning to England. His previous novels have been translated into twenty-six languages and reflect the author's deep interest in medicine, science, and the paranormal. Peter James lives in Sussex.
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British author James's far-fetched but terrifying thriller is the first of a new series featuring Det. Supt. Roy Grace. Michael Harrison, a successful real estate developer with a penchant for practical jokes, gets a horrible taste of his own medicine. As a prank, four of his friends bury Michael alive in a coffin equipped with a breathing tube and a bottle of whiskey and leave him, ostensibly for a couple of hours. But when their van crashes head-on into a truck and three of them are killed (the fourth dies later "in hospital"), Michael is trapped. His cell phone doesn't work, but he does have a two-way radio whose companion is in the hands of Davey, a mentally challenged young man who finds the phone near the scene of the accident. Grace, a detective with a taste for the supernatural (he uses mediums to help him solve crimes), gets on the case and discovers just how devious Michael's friends have been. The "buried alive" trope is undeniably powerful, and Grace shows promise as a hero—but the crime and the plot surrounding Michael's plight are just too cumbersome and transparent to really engage the reader.
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- PublisherMacmillan
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1405051639
- ISBN 13 9781405051637
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages400
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