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Violence
A lot
A murder investigation; some violence; thriller pacing with dark crime scenes
Language
Some
Moderate language in a Brighton crime register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult relationships; a marriage with dark secrets
Substance Use
Barely any
Moderate social drinking in the detective's world
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The gap between what looks true and what is true, an alibi that should work but doesn't, the secrets hiding inside a comfortable middle-class life
What this book is about
The third Roy Grace novel. Brian Bishop is accused of murdering his wife Sophie — but his alibi is that he was at a conference in Thailand. The problem is an eyewitness who places him in Brighton at the time of death. Grace has to investigate the impossible: how do you alibi a man who couldn't be in two places? And what is the truth about the Bishop marriage? Peter James builds an elegant locked-room problem around Roy Grace's increasing competence as a detective.
Notes for sensitive readers
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murder investigation with some graphic details
best read as third in the Roy Grace series
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