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"Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her partner Sam Collins are just settling into their business when they're chosen for a high-profile case: retired music-hall star Verity Malone hires them to find out who poisoned her husband, a theater impresario. Verity herself has been accused of the crime. The only hitch--the Brighton police are already on the case, putting Emma in direct competition with her husband, police superintendent Edgar Stephens. Soon...
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2020.
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"In the wake of two extremely high-profile murder cases, and with the summer of 1957 finally winding down, Constable Twitten is eagerly anticipating a quiet spell at work. But his hoped-for rest is interrupted when he and his colleagues find a trio of bodies, all murdered with the same unusual weapon: a milk bottle. The three victims are seemingly unconnected--a hardworking patrolman, a would-be beauty queen, and a catty BBC radio personality--so...
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Roy Grace novels volume 6
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[2010]
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Detective superintendent Roy Grace is forced to delve into his shattered past when a series of rapes take place that bear remarkable similarities to an unsloved case from 1997.
4) Not dead yet
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Roy Grace novels volume 8
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[2012]
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Roy Grace investigates threats against Gaia Lafayette, a Hollywood star who is filming in Brighton, but when a body is found on a farm miles away, Grace and his men must race against time to stop an obssessive killer.
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Roy Grace novels volume 10
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2014.
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When Red Westwood meets handsome, charming and rich Bryce Laurent through an online dating agency, there is an instant attraction. But as their love blossoms, the truth about his past, and his dark side, begins to emerge. Everything he has told Red about himself turns out to be a tissue of lies, and her infatuation with him gradually turns to terror. Within a year, and under police protection, she evicts him from her flat and her life. But her nightmare...
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Roy Grace novels volume 16
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2020
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"A Brighton gangster is on trial for conspiracy to murder, following the death of a rival crime family boss. As the jury file into Lewes Crown Court, twelve anonymous people selected randomly from fifty, there is one person sitting in the public gallery observing them with keen interest, and secretly filming them. Later, a group of the accused's henchmen sit around a table with the full personal details of each of the twelve jurors in front of them....
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Roy Grace novels volume 17
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2021
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"Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the case of a missing woman in Brighton. Is this Roy Grace's most challenging case yet? A mystery that is leaving him totally confounded for the first time in his career. Most Sundays, Niall and Eden Paternoster like to go for a drive and visit country houses. She likes to look at them, he likes to dream that one day . . . However, most weeks they also end up bickering about something or other. This...
8) You are dead
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Roy Grace novels volume 11
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2016.
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"Detective Superintendent Roy Grace and his Major Crime Team investigate two seemingly unconnected events-- the disappearance of a young woman and the discovery of the remains of another young woman who appears to have been dead for thirty years. When another woman goes missing and another body is found, Grace believes Brighton has its first serial killer"--