Review by Booklist Review
In Brighton, England, a horrific three-way collision takes a young American college student's life, setting in motion a series of events that will leave many more dead. The victim, Tony Revere, is a member of a prominent New York Mafia family, and when news reaches the States that one of their own has been killed, the Mob hatches a deadly plan of revenge on all parties involved. There's widowed fortysomething attorney Carly Chase, overworked truck driver Stuart Ferguson, and weasel-faced lowlife Ewan Preece. In truth, Preece bears sole responsibility for the accident; the other two were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. But the Reveres couldn't care less. They want everyone dead. In the seventh entry in James' thoroughly engaging Roy Grace series, Detective Grace and his crew of colorful colleagues are put to the test as they contend with criminal elements on both sides of the pond. Once you pick this one up, good luck putting it down. It's a brisk, smart, nerve-rattling read.--Block, Allison Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
British author James's seventh crime novel featuring Det. Supt. Roy Grace (after 2010's Dead Like You) opens with a fatal road accident in the center of Brighton involving a truck, a car, a van, and an unfortunate American cyclist, Tony Revere, who's the grandson of Mafia boss Sal Giordano. While the initial focus is on the van driver, lowlife Ewan Preece, who raced away from the accident, it becomes apparent that there's a more ominous force at work. Revere's family hires a chillingly rational killer called Tooth to eliminate every person present at the accident-even though no one actually directly caused Revere's death. Grace works the case with sidekick Det. Sgt. Glenn Branson and the rest of his team of well-sketched members, each bringing his or her individual talent to the investigation. The grim creativity of the victims' deaths and the ease of movement of the action are two of the many compelling reasons to stick with this series. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by Library Journal Review
Rule of thumb: don't mess with a mobster's kid. One frantic morning, three stressed-out drivers are involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident. The dead bicyclist, an American graduate student studying in Brighton, is the son of an American Mafia family. Not content to let Det. Roy Grace and his colleagues find the sole driver who fled the accident scene, the boy's vengeful parents hire the very best hit man to kill all three drivers in a "creative" manner. He is quite thorough and cruel, and Grace needs to stop this guy before more innocent folks die. VERDICT This seventh entry in James's Roy Grace series (after Dead Like You) can be read as a stand-alone. Dollars to doughnuts your readers will come back begging for more after this exciting one. For fans of Lee Child and Jeffery Deaver-and perhaps Nelson DeMille. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Dead Like You, 2010, etc.), clears her of causing the accident and releases her, for by then a much more serious threat has surfaced. Tony's controlling mother Fernanda, whose jailed father is "the New York Godfather" and whose husband Lou is the Mob's chief banker, flies in from Long Island to wail, gnash her teeth and offer a $100,000 reward for the identification (not, be it noted, the capture and conviction) of her son's killer. Meanwhile, convinced that all three drivers are at fault, Fernanda privately offers a killer named Tooth $1 million to eliminate them all, preferably in baroque and painful ways. It's almost too easy for Tooth to dispose of the first two unfortunates, but as he closes in on Carly, she hatches a desperate scheme to save herself. It doesn't exactly go as expected, and she's left much worse off than before with still many pages to go. As usual, James spins a kitchen-sink thriller that goes on forever, and very enjoyably, though it certainly could have been cut down to a single night's reading.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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