Roy Grace 1-5 Dead Simple, Looking Good Dead, Not Dead Enough, Dead Man's Footsteps, Dead Tomorrow

Roy Grace 1–5 is a five-book collection that opens the series featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace. Set largely in Brighton and the surrounding area, the novels centre on investigations sparked by sudden disappearances, unexplained deaths and cases that resist straightforward explanation.

Across these early stories, Grace is pulled into enquiries that begin with a stag-night prank that turns deadly and extend to a murder that mirrors his own unresolved personal loss. The collection also includes cases shaped by disputed alibis, questions of identity and crimes that reach beyond the city, alongside a bleak sequence of deaths connected to the search for illegal organ transplants.

Included titles

• Dead Simple
• Looking Good Dead
• Not Dead Enough
• Dead Man's Footsteps
• Dead Tomorrow

Key details

• Five-book collection featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace
• Includes titles 1–5 in the Roy Grace series
• Set in Brighton and the surrounding area

Synopses

Dead Simple

A stag-night prank is meant to be harmless, but within hours the groom has disappeared and his friends are dead. With three days left until the wedding, Roy Grace is asked by the groom’s fiancée to find out what happened.

Looking Good Dead

A young woman is found butchered in Brighton, bringing Grace back to the unresolved disappearance of his wife. After Tom Bryce discovers a disc left on a train and attempts to return it, he becomes the only witness to the same brutal killing.

Not Dead Enough

A socialite is found dead and suspicion turns to her husband. Although he was sixty miles away at the time, the evidence appears to implicate him, raising the possibility of deception or identity theft.

Dead Man's Footsteps

On the morning of 9/11, Ronnie Wilson sees a chance to leave his debts behind and start again overseas. Six years later, skeletal remains found in a Brighton storm drain draw Grace into an investigation that spans the globe and becomes a race against time to save a woman being hunted through the city.

Dead Tomorrow

The body of a missing boy is recovered from the seabed off the Sussex coast with vital organs removed, and more bodies soon follow. In Brighton, a teenager needs an urgent transplant and, when the health system fails her, her mother turns to an online broker offering black-market organs.