Dead man's time
By: Peter James
Series: Detective Superintendent Roy Grace -- 9
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780230760554; 9780230760547; 9780230760653; 9781447272632
Subjects: Fiction; Detective and mystery stories; Police; Kriminalroman
Description: A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant dying. And millions of pounds' worth of valuables have been taken. But, as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, heading the enquiry, rapidly learns, there is one priceless item of sentimental value that the old woman's powerful family cherish above all else. And they are fully prepared to take the law into their own hands, and will do anything, absolutely anything, to get it back. Within days, Grace is racing against the clock, following a murderous trail that leads him from the shady antiques world of Brighton, across Europe, and all the way back to the New York waterfront gang struggles of 1922, chasing a killer driven by the force of one man's greed and another man's fury.
Notes: "Some will wait a lifetime to take their revenge"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: "Some will wait a lifetime to take their revenge"; title: Cover.-A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant dying. And millions of pounds' worth of valuables have been taken. But, as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, heading the enquiry, rapidly learns, there is one priceless item of sentimental value that the old woman's powerful family cherish above all else. And they are fully prepared to take the law into their own hands, and will do anything, absolutely anything, to get it back. Within days, Grace is racing against the clock, following a murderous trail that leads him from the shady antiques world of Brighton, across Europe, and all the way back to the New York waterfront gang struggles of 1922, chasing a killer driven by the force of one man's greed and another man's fury.-A robbery at a Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant dying and millions taken in valuables. But, as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, heading the enquiry, rapidly learns, there is one item, of sentimental value, that her powerful family care about above all else, and they are ready to take the law into their own hands.