But life does go on, so while he can’t put her out of his mind, he still has to go on, with or without her. Roy Grace is a local detective – and a very good one at that, with a troubled past – some 9 years ago his wife literally disappeared, and he’s been searching for her ever since. Because the movie he watched was indeed a snuff movie and not simply play acting, and there is someone who is not happy at all that an uninvited somebody got a peek into their world of crime.Īnd because we’re at cliches, here is the third one – he gets a warning to never watch the movie again and is strictly forbidden to talk to anyone about it, including the police or his wife.Īnd you guessed it – after talking it through with his wife, Tom goes to the police and this is where Roy Grace gets involved with the case. But of course, again he inserts the CD in his laptop, just as we knew he would.Īnd again, his laptop dies, all his data erased, and if it were only that – but now he has to run for his life and that of his wife and kids, whom he adores. Tom thinks nothing of it, so the next day he brings the laptop to work and asks a pc geek to sort it out.Īnd now comes the second ‘horror movie’ cliche – watching the CD once was not enough – even though we all shout in our minds, or loud: ‘don’t watch it again, just get rid of it’. The movie he starts watching on the CD is a snuff movie, and a few seconds in, it gets cut off, his laptop dies and all his data gets erased.
He takes the CD home, and in the night ends up watching it, and that is the beginning of all his troubles – and they’re big.
You know those chilling movies where the woman is home alone at night, suddenly the lights are out and she goes down the stairs to investigate that noise down there – well all shout – don’t go down, call the police! But she goes down anyway and ends up in big trouble. Tom takes the CD with him, with the intention of bringing it to Lost and Found.
In this second book, Tom Bryce, a regular salesman, is on the train (heading from home to work and back) when he notices a CD laying on an empty seat which was just vacated by a rather obnoxious and annoying guy. I’ve recently started with the series, reading the first book, Dead Simple ( review here) and I got hooked on it right away. Looking Good Dead is the second book in the Roy Grace series by the British author Peter James.
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