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Not Dead Enough by Peter James (view source)
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|title=Not Dead Enough
|author=Peter James
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|pages=400
|publisher=Pan Books
|date=November 2007
|isbn=978-0330446129
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Brian Bishop is a successful businessman with a home in Brighton and a flat in London. On the night that his wife is murdered in their Brighton home he has a reasonably strong alibi, having been in a London restaurant until quite late the previous evening and seen putting his golf clubs in his car outside the flat early the following morning. Yet the police have compelling evidence that Bishop was the murderer and when another woman is brutally murdered in similar circumstances it seems that Bishop might be a serial killer. Sophie Harrington had told her friends that she was having an affair with Brian Bishop and whilst he admits to knowing her he denies that they were having an affair. Superintendent Roy Grace is under pressure from within his own police force and the media to bring the case to a speedy conclusion.
If you're looking for a good police procedural then it's difficult to better [[Ian Rankin]], but you might also like to look at Benjamin Black's [[Christine Falls]]. It's not strictly a police procedural but is probably one of the best crime novels written in recent years.
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[[Peter James' Roy Grace Novels in Chronological Order]]
|name=Claire Holty
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|comment= I also thought that this book could have been better. He had a really good plot, like the reviewer, I guessed about half way through who the killer was, but there was too much about his personal life, OK when the murderer involved his girlfriend, but a lot was irrelevant. Whatever your problems you put them aside when you go to work, whether you work in an office or in the police force, if he was as good a detective as he thought he was then he wouldn't let his personal life get into his work life. I am sure that people do not consistently flick their eyes to one side or another, you would get a headache! Imagine being in court and saying to the judge "I knew he was lying because of his eyes". But I was impressed enough to read the first book in this series.
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