Brighton's Detective Superintendent Roy Grace makes a third appearance in Peter James
Not Dead Enough, published in 2007 (there are now six titles in the series). It's a fairly long read, with multiple story lines, and three murders. I did find it bogging down by the mid-point but, around 3/4s in, and with the solution to the murders clear, the pace actually picked up as all the loose ends came together.
Brian Bishop is a succesful entrpreneur, with a flat in London and gorgeous house (and wife) in Brighton. When Katie Bishop is found by the housekeeper one morning quite dead, wearing a gas mask on her naked body, Brian's world begins to collapse. With DS Roy Grace on the case, more evidence suggests Bishop's complicity and he has an alibi: he was 60 miles away, sound asleep, when the murder of his wife occured. Or was he? As more clues emerge, the details of the Bishop's family life don't add up. And then a second murder occurs, and Bishop appears tied to that one as well.
I enjoyed much of the narrative, and the dialogue range true for most of the characters. Sometimes I found the short chapters annoying -- over 100 -- which James uses like a film-maker, cross-cutting between storylines. Grace is in almost every scene, but it grew tiresome for patches. The plotting is clever although for my taste a little over-plotted and a tad too many co-incidences. But it was a worthwhile read and, for a police procedural, relatively light on highly detailed descriptions of gorey moments.
Available
here for Amazon Kindle for under $8; not available for Kobo in Canada. The mass paperback is around $10 in Canada.