num_pages: 336
description: Michael Harrison had it all: good looks, charm, natural leadership, a wicked sense of humor, and now, Ashley, his fiancée. While out celebrating with a group of friends a few nights before the wedding, Michael suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself enclosed in a coffin equipped only with a flashlight, a dirty magazine, a walkie-talkie, and a tiny breathing tube. It's all in good fun — payback for the grief his mates suffered due to his own penchant for tomfoolery — that is until the four are killed in a drunk driving accident just moments after leaving Michael completely alone and buried alive.Detective Superintendent Grace—himself dealing with the pain of losing his wife—is brought on to the case when Ashley reports Michael missing. Suspicions are raised when Michael's only friend not at the bachelor party refuses to cooperate, and Ashley's faithfulness—not to mention her increasingly mysterious past—are suddenly thrown in to question. As Superintendent Grace soon discovers, one man's disaster is another man's fortune.
language: English
title: Dead Simple
titlecomplete: Dead Simple (Roy Grace, #1)
characters: Michael Harrison, Nick Nicholl, Bella Moy, Emma-Jane Boutwood, Roy Grace, Glenn Branson, Cleo Morey
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Crime, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 26293
places: Brighton and Hove, Sussex, England
series: Roy Grace 
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Prix Polar International
publisher: Carroll & Graf