Dead If You Don't

Dead if you don't
Bok av Peter James
A PARENT'S WORST NIGHTMARE IS GRACE'S DEADLIEST CASE . . . Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, faces his most complex case yet in Dead If You Don't. Kipp Brown, successful businessman and compulsive gambler, is having the worst run of luck of his life. He's beginning to lose, big style. However, taking his teenage son, Mungo, to their club's Saturday afternoon football match should have given him a welcome respite, if only for a few hours. But it's at the stadium where his nightmare begins. Within minutes of arriving at the game, Kipp bumps into a client. He takes his eye off Mungo for a few moments, and in that time, the boy disappears. Then he gets the terrifying message that someone has his child, and to get him back alive, Kipp will have to pay. Defying instruction not to contact the police, Kipp reluctantly does just that, and Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is brought in to investigate. At first it seems a straightforward case of kidnap. But rapidly Grace finds himself entering a dark, criminal underbelly of the city, where the rules are different and nothing is what it seems . . .
Det här var en trevlig bekantskap, har inte läst något av Peter James förut. ”Han dör om du inte” är en spännande bok, en bok jag gillade skarpt. Den fångade mig från första sidan och det höll i sig till slutet. I denna bok får polisen Roy Grace ett riktigt trassligt fall att läsa. En tonårskille försvinner på en fotbollsmatch och snart får pappan ett meddelade som gör honom iskall.

Det här är en spännande bok med oväntade vändningar. Språket är bra, rappt, handlingen trovärdig. Kapitlen är korta och berättelsen berättas i högt tempo vilket gör den lättläst.