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Not Dead Enough (Paperback)

by Peter James (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books (22 Nov 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330446126
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330446129
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 418 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Peter James came to many readers’ attention via his immense success as a horror novelist, but his more recent career as a writer of effortlessly ingenious and readable crime novels has – perhaps unfairly -- eclipsed his earlier work. (The author has claimed that he was, in any case, always essentially a crime writer – even in the days of his earlier acclaim).

Not Dead Enough marks another welcome appearance for the author’s quirkily characterised policeman Roy Grace (who we’ve already met in Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead). Here, Grace is investigating the bizarre slaying of a member of Brighton’s social elite, Katie Bishop. Her husband, Brian, appears to be in the clear – he was in another town at the time, sound asleep. But Grace begins to suspect the presence of a doppelgänger: is someone else -- nigh-identical to Bishop – involved? As in his previous cases, Grace’s diligent exhuming of murky secrets soon demonstrates that the Bishops’ outwardly settled lives had darker corners. And as Grace gets close to the truth, he finds – paradoxically – that it’s his own beleaguered private life which is on the line.

. With Not Dead Enough, we’re soon reminded that Peter James’ métier has long been machine-tooled plotting, and that particular skill doesn’t desert him here. James himself spends time with the police of the Brighton area (his own beat) and that research is seamlessly freighted into the narrative here.

Readers are confronted with a dizzying variety of tales of murder and deception these days, but this one has an individual strand that marks it out from the crowd. --Barry Forshaw --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Independent on Sunday
'James just gets better and better and deserves the success he has achieved with this first-class series'


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5.0 out of 5 stars Not Dead Enough, 12 Jun 2007
By Mr. R. Clark "Ray Clark" (England) - See all my reviews
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Not Dead Enough is the third outing for Peter James' troubled detective, Roy Grace. In a complex plot, Grace's sanity is not only threatened with three murders, one suspect and little in the way of evidence, but the fact that he is still coming to terms with a wife who walked out on him nine years previous and has never been seen until ... possibly ... now, in a remote corner of Germany: add to that, a threat on the life of police mortician Cleo Morey, Grace's new girlfriend, and you have the trappings of a very tense and sophisticated novel, which, in the hands of a master story-teller like Peter James, offers you a very compelling read, full of plot twists and turns that come so thick and fast you barely have time to draw breath before the author gives you something else to think about. In the style of Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead, the book races towards an unexpected and chilling outcome, with well defined, 3D characters, something that has always been a trademark of James as readers of his previous novels like Denial and Faith will remember. Not Dead Enough comes very highly recommended: the only crime any reader would be guilty of is not rushing out and buying a copy.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not Dead Enough, 24 Jul 2007
By G. Webb "1gabriella" (East Sussex, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Not Dead Enough (Hardcover)
I enjoyed the first two Roy Grace thrillers immensely and found them difficult pull myself away from. The third is even better. The writing style is much tighter and, consequently, the suspense a notch or two higher.

Attention to detail and the nature of obsession seem to be very close to the author. The whole series is highly recommended but don't buy just one - it won't last very long.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Acceptable as an airplane book. , 2 Mar 2008
By C. Gilbert "frumiousb" (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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Like many readers, I first knew Peter James from his horror novels. I have been reading these Roy Grace detective novels with some interest, although I have to say that I still find myself missing something in his work.

Not Dead Enough spins a tale about a man who is a seemingly obvious murder suspect, if it only were not for the fact that it required him to to be in two places at the same time. The themes of the day are obsession and revenge. It kept me reading, I will give it that much. I do have to say that had I not been on an airplane, the overly complicated plot would most likely have struck me as rather tiresome.

The quality of the writing is good, and I like Roy Grace as a character. I plan to give James the benefit of the doubt and see if I can find something in the series than I like better than Not Dead Enough.

Not bad though, as airplane reading.
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5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT
Yes another good book with roy grace. I've read them all and enjoyed them all.
Published 1 month ago by L. K. Bell

4.0 out of 5 stars Another good one!
A first for me...as I knew who the killer was with just over 200 pages still left to read!! - there are 610 pages altogether but I have to admit a sunny weekend in the garden and... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Most obvious book ever!
I am a massive crime thriller fan and wanted to try some new authors so gave Peter James a go, having liked the quick description on the back, but i doubt i'll be buying one of... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Getting better all the time..
...and I have to admit I'm pretty hooked on the series now.

Okay, so some of it is a re-take on a very old theme, but - oddly enough - that doesn't matter when all's... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not Dead Enough
This is the first book by Peter James that I have read and now I'm a fan and hooked. It is a fast moving thriller set in U.K. which is a great change for U.K. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. J. M. Lewis

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Dead Enough
This is definitely my best read of 2008 and stays unrivalled up to the present. I have read the other Peter James books but this one for me is outstanding and I seriously could... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Paperback Reader

5.0 out of 5 stars BIG read...... so worth it!!!!!
I've read a few of Peter James' other books and thoroughly enjoyed every one but THIS ONE....WOW! Quite a thick book so hoped it was going to be a decent read and not heavy going... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Hippy chick

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Dead Enough is Good enough
Another one in the series and again a very good read and I am looking forwad to reading is next book
Published 5 months ago by Mr. David Gilchrist

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good. Last 1/3 is real page turner!
Good novel, well constructed, with interesting characters. Gets really exiting in the last 1/3 and I could not put in down. I also recommend Dead Man's Footsteps.
Published 5 months ago by C. Moreau

5.0 out of 5 stars Not dead enough
Another brilliant book by Peter James. It's the third one I've read back to back and I'm now beginning to guess what is going to happen too easily, his books do have a common... Read more
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