Synopsis: Detective Superintendent Roy Grace exposes the dark side of internet dating in the intriguing crime novel Dead at First Sight, by award winning author Peter James.
A man waits at a London airport for the love of his life to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired cop waits in a bar in Florida’s Key West for his first date with the lady who is his soulmate. The two men are about to discover they’ve been scammed out of almost every penny they have in the world – and that neither women exist.
In the same week, Roy Grace is called to investigate the suicide of a woman in Brighton, that is clearly not what it seems. As his investigations continue, a handsome motivational speaker comes forward. He’s discovered his identity is being used to scam eleven different women online. The first he knew of it was a phone call from one of them saying, ‘You don’t know me, but I thought I knew you’.
That woman is now dead.
Roy Grace realizes he is looking at the tip of an iceberg. Can he bring down the murderous global empire built on clever, cruel internet scams?
Kat’s Rating: 4/5
Kat’s Review: It’s been a while since I read a Roy Grace and thought I would play catch up. This latest book only took a few pages before I felt like I read about Roy Grace just last week. This story is based around the horrible scams using internet romance and it starts with two guys on separate sides of the world being scammed. While that is going on Roy and the team are called to investigate a woman who appears to have taken her life. What starts out as a simple scam seems to be the start of something huge and Roy can’t turn his back until he finds out the truth.
Whilst the storyline was written extremely well and it engages you as a reader, I could help feeling like we were missing some key things from a Roy Grace book. For example, his personal life including Cleo and now Bruno were barely touched. I know this usually personal lives of characters takes a back seat to the main storyline, but I feel like they were almost given too much of a backseat, as an afterthought. Even though I had a few gripes with this I still enjoyed it, I just hope we see a little more from his next book
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