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Disclaimer: A physical copy was provided via Pan Macmillan India in exchange for an honest review. The Thoughts, opinions & feelings expressed in the review are therefore, my own.

Second Disclaimer: This is the second book in the Roy Grace Mysteries – and while the case under investigation is a standalone (meaning: it is resolved at the end of this book) the investigators &the protagonists have a foundation that starts in the first book – [b:Dead Simple|703353|Dead Simple (Roy Grace, #1)|Peter James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1439269103l/703353._SX50_.jpg|689644]. The experience of reading this series is absolutely improved by reading it in order.

The case under investigation in Looking Good Dead is a heinous one – a mutilated body of a young girl is found, albeit the body is missing its head, making the task of the investigator a little more difficult when it comes to identifying the victim. On the other side, we have an absolutely normal, middle age man who finds a CD dropped by his fellow passenger and with the intent of returning it to its rightful owner, ends up being the only witness to a crime that doesn’t seem to have been reported.

The reader (yours truly!) rightly suspects that these two incidents are related and not isolated – so it was a brilliant rush to be a part, even peripherally as a neutral witness to the investigation or rather the pure procedural police work that the author puts forward, without being boring, even once.

Like the first book, the author gives us the treat of multiple POVs – we get not only the side of the villains (the who, what and why!), but we also get to enjoy the journey of the investigators working to pick threads to tie them to a perpetrator; a stranger crime that is infinitely harder to solve for there is no personal connection or motive when it comes to choosing the victims.

All through the investigation, we are also shown the progress or say, developments in Roy Grace’s personal life, ones that keep us readers not only invested the plot on a personal level as well.

This is only the second book, and yet I can say with certainty that this series will be one that the reader could end up binge – reading!



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