It felt silly at times and the whole Rebecca thing I guessed quite early on and wondered why Grace hadn't. about how it’s hard to forget pain, but harder to remember happiness - because we don’t have scars for happiness”. However, Peter James has introduced dramatic irony and the reader is savvy to information that the police don't have.

Normally the police would not look into an adult missing person who was not vulnerable until after 24 hours but the attending officers thought there was something a little off with Niall so they start to look for Eden. What made this book special and entertaining is not just the mystery, but the relationship dynamics between the characters. The ending was spectacular with a desperate cliff top situation where several lives are at extreme risk. And the plot, including all the subplots, unravel and intertwine into a mysterious tale full of twists, turns, manipulation, deception, desperation, red herrings, police politics, familial drama, and personal tragedy. There were parts that made me laugh and parts that made me cry - it is everything I would want in a book.This is one of the few ongoing sagas that still has me gripped, although the previous outing, Find Them Dead, left me feeling rather dissatisfied as the main character seemed to have been sidelined. Other plot points seemed to be mentioned (several times) alluding to some big twist, but again, they went nowhere. All the regular characters are there with all the backstories that had additional interest to the series.

Found the whole Bruno thing could have been handled differently, Cleo has become dull and Humphrey the dog gets mentioned more than poor little Noah who always seems to be with the nanny or in bed poor little chap. Niall and Eden Paternoster start their Sunday the same way they always do - with along drive , a visit to a country house and a quick stop at the local supermarket on the way home. I found the Bruno storyline slightly random and bizarre as if Peter James had run out of ideas about what to do with him.This book follows the investigation into a missing woman, Eden Paternoster, where her husband is suspected of her murder. She wasn’t home either so Niall finally went to bed thinking she’d gone off in a huff as she had done once before. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award-winning author Peter James, faces his most engrossing case yet in Left You Dead.

Grace and his wisecracking sidekick DI Glenn Branson are back centre stage and faced with a distinctly rum case where they’re convinced that a murder has been committed, but there’s no body to be found. There is a second plot that explores the deep and emotional theme of organ donation and how vital it is. I loved Roy and Cleo’s moments together, and Roy’s friendship with Branson is exactly how best friends should be! Thankyou to Macmillan Australia for providing me with a copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review.I'm all for organ donation, but as long as a person is alive, their dignity and rights are inalienable and they should never be downgraded to the status of a resource to be wheeled off and mined.