Every now and then a really good thriller comes along and this one grabbed me from the first page. The paperback has been sitting on my book shelf for a long time and I've only just got around to reading it. Finding out the truth about someone you love can be very painful. Although Lorna Belling a hairdresser was married to Corin she planned to leave him, she was having an affair with a man named Greg. Unfortunately Greg delayed his excuse for leaving his wife Belinda to be with Lorna. What hurt Lorna the most is when she finds out Greg had lied about everything, when she trusted Greg. This is my first book by Peter James and it won't be my last. I enjoyed every page where so much happens it made me think what makes a killer. As 18 million copies have been sold I highly recommend reading Need You Dead.

An enjoyable page-turner of a book which kept me guessing until quite near the end. Aside from the main plot of the book, a lot is covered about Roy Grace's personal life which continues from book to book and I think personally it would have been better to have read them in order to get the most of the story.

This is the thirteenth novel which features Roy Grace, and having read the previous twelve was interested to see how this would continue the ongoing story line which is interwoven in the other books. If you have not read all the others, there is always a mention in the current story as to what happened. Although I enjoyed the book, I worked out the culprit fairly early on - don't worry I will not reveal who it is - which made the rest of the plot not as interesting as it otherwise would have been. One or two of the scenarios I didn't think worked and, to me, were not that plausible, given what had happened in previous story lines - again I will not say which so as not to spoil the enjoyment and it is only my opinion. The final five pages of the book give tantalizing clues as to what to expect in the next novel, which hopefully will be more of a page turner for me than this one, which turned out to be unlucky thirteen. So, to sum up, did enjoy the book, but......