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|genre=Crime

|summary=The first in a new detective series featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace will pass a few idle hours but probably not excite. If reading about someone trapped in a coffin gives you a panic attack then you might want to avoid the book.

|buy=No

|borrow=Maybe

It's not a bad book, you know, but neither is it a particularly good book. It doesn't even have the merit of being so bad it's good. It's quite simply a rather mediocre book which might fill in a few hours if you're stuck for something to read. It has all the hallmarks of someone jumping on the bandwagon of those people who've written a successful series of books featuring one particular detective - Colin Dexter's Morse, Ruth Rendell's Wexford, Ian Rankin's Rebus and Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen spring to mind - but this book's not a patch on any of them. Read it if you like, but don't say I didn't warn you.

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