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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.

This is the first book in the Detective Superintendent Roy Grace Mysteries – and is the one that not only introduces the protagonist and several secondary characters but also cements the role of the protagonist as an intuitive investigator with the UK Police (I apologise if I have made mistakes with the structure of the UK policing system – I honestly do not know any better!).

Now, DS Roy Grace is a veteran cop with quite the intriguing personal life – his wife, Sandy disappeared without a trace about 9 years ago – that is, no clues, no evidence was ever found to point in any direction; the case was quite frankly a dead end. Even then, Roy Grace hasn’t exactly given up hope, Sandy’s disappearance is like a background noise in his head and each case he investigates ends up with more possibilities or theories regarding her disappearance.

The current case is however quite a fascinating one – 5 friends and a bachelor party prank gone wrong, ends up with the groom missing and 3 of his friends’ dead in an accident.

Was everything that happened merely a coincidence? What kind of a prank meant that the groom can’t be found? Is there a far sinister motive behind the happenings of that one night?

Like I already said, this is the first book in the Roy Grace Mysteries and as such the author has done a brilliant job of laying the foundation of the protagonist with a case that is not what it seems like, from the start and shows how a veteran cop handles the investigation and the resulting media attention like a human being. Mind you, he is not shown as a superhuman, but someone that a reader will not only empathise with but also applaud his utter humanness in face of some  brilliant planning.

What I also loved about this book, was the fact that even though we get the POVs of first suspects and then later the perpetrators in addition to the investigators, it still ended up a twisted and action-packed climax that finally made sure we understood where and just how were the pieces all connected in the puzzle.



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