Cassandra Dewell can’t leave Montana’s Lewis and Clark County fast enough for her new job as chief investigator for Jon Kirkbride, sheriff of Bakken County. The readers of Need You Dead well learn about the issues parent and child have when it is the first time they meet each other. While thebooks in this series may easily be read as stand-alones, you will reap the full benefit of the back-story and character development if you read them as a series. The wicked husband, an unhappy and despicable man who purchased her car from the internet, and a man from her past she'd met on a couple of occasions. This is a story about a victim, not a body count, a pure quality realistic police investigation into a death of a woman to find out if it was suicide, accident or staged but it goes far deeper.

The first one, Dead Simple, was excellent and the plot of this one involving the detective work is good.I needn't have worried as the most needed to know history was explained very well when the past was brought up. Despite some serious information overload—including a glossary of police terms, a chart of police ranks and insignia, and a superabundance of police characters—James has never forgotten how to make the pages fly. With all of these issues at hand, and loads of staff not being around (Glen Branson his trusty sidekick being one of them) he has a lot on his plate.

Ich habe die gesamte Roy Grace Reihe gelesen und finde, dass dieses Buch zu den spannendsten (aus dieser Reihe) gehört. He is a father figure to many, as he portrays the image of a confidante and yet also of a strong and trusted colleague. Roy buries Sandy his late ex-wife, and at her funeral her parents come at him with a spiteful revelation.

Synonymous with plot-twisting page-turners, Peter has garnered an army of loyal fans throughout his storytelling career – which also included stints writing for TV and producing films. Need you Dead is a straight-up, no nonsense police procedural with all that is expected from this genre. The Grace stories almost always go to the top of the bestseller lists, not least because they are supremely well-told. I am currently wondering how much Peter James gets paid to product place in his books, this is littered with brand names, and is really starting to grind me.