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  • Dead Tomorrow

  • Roy Grace, Book 5
  • By: Peter James
  • Narrated by: David Bauckham
  • Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,799 ratings)
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Dead Tomorrow

By: Peter James
Narrated by: David Bauckham
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Summary

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is caught up in the murky world of human trafficking in Dead Tomorrow, by award winning crime writer Peter James.

The body of a missing boy is dredged from the seabed off the Sussex coast, missing vital organs. Soon after, two more bodies are found...

A teenager in Brighton will die if she does not receive an urgent transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down her mother takes drastic action and goes to an online broker in black-market organs. The broker can provide what she wants, but it will come at a price.

As Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies, he unearths a gang of child traffickers operating from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a race against time to save the life of a young street kid, while a desperate mother will stop at nothing to save her daughter's life...

Although the Roy Grace novels can be listened to in any order, Dead Tomorrow is the fifth thrilling title in the bestselling series. Enjoy more of the Brighton detective’s investigations with Dead Like You and Dead Man's Grip.

Now a major ITV series, Grace, starring John Simm.

©2009 Peter James (P)2016 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

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    5 out of 5 stars

Best one yet....

This is a GREAT audiobook. Excellent story, excellently read. I felt that Peter James had really defined each character, with a particularly well-observed depiction of young teens. Even the regulars felt more rounded and three-dimensional than ever before. It is rare that I feel bereft when a book ends - this is one of those rare times.

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    2 out of 5 stars

Good story overburdened with superfluous details

It's hard to believe that this book is by the same author as the excellent Dead Man's Grip. Dead Tomorrow's basic story of the two sides of human organ trafficking is topical and thought-provoking, but the narrative is mired in endless detail about what people are wearing, how their hair is coiffured and the furniture in the room. It's noticeable that this book is much longer than other in the Roy Grace series. There's also far too much sugary prose about Grace and his new love Chloe that verges on nauseating. Some of the other characters don't ring true, especially Lynn, whose daughter desperately needs a liver transplant, who though employed in a job that needs people-skills she peppers her speech with the F-word when, for example, speaking with member of the transplant team. Swearing has it's place but to be effective it should be used sparingly in books and plays.

Having enjoyed other books in the series I put this book down as an aberration.

The reader does a good job ploughing through all the verbiage!

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    4 out of 5 stars

do "read" this

gripping from start to finish. Topical, moving and very thought provoking. Should be used by NHS to demonstrate the need for more organ donors.

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Tomorrow Takes Just too Long to Arrive

Dead Tomorrow explores new territory for Roy Grace as he gets drawn into the murky world of human trafficking for organ transplants. It’s a nasty business and James does not shy away from any of the horrific implications. Human interest in the plot is very high, the scenes in Bucharest are quite moving and the story of the family impacted by serious liver disease will tug at your heart strings.

I definitely enjoyed this book but it isn’t perfect. It’s the longest of the Roy Grace books to date and I don’t feel the extra time is particularly well spent. At times the narrative becomes bogged down in description that adds very little. Some of the dialogue is well below the standards that we have come to expect in this series, especially between Grace and Chloe. On the other hand the detailed local knowledge and research we have come to expect features very prominently. A personal highlight for me was the inclusion of the “Arco Dee” a real dredging ship that I have photographed myself. However, I think this book really could have done with some tougher editing. Cruelty for kindness would have been no bad thing.

So, a decent enough installment in the series and with better editing it could have been a highlight. As it is it’s not the one to judge the series by and I do think I won’t be alone in having hoped the ongoing storyline of the central characters would have moved on just a touch more.

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Read it rather than listen to it.

I have had to give up on this due to the awful narration. The story itself is good, but the narrator does such an awful job with his grating voice it stopped me listening to it.
He makes every woman sound like a simpering idiot and the character of Chloe is just cringeworthy and unneccesary. All the other characters seem to have something about them but the relationship between Chloe and Roy is sickly and unreal, adults just don't talk to each other like that. Going back to the narration, Lyn despite her daughter urgently needing a new liver, speaks like she is trying to appease a three year old who won't eat his peas. The daughter is voiced as whiny and each word is drawn out with exactly the same inflection in the tone for every single sentence. The book is great, but this narrator really let the story down. I won't listen to another book narrated by him.

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    5 out of 5 stars

A Real Page Turner

This is 3rd D S Grace book that I have listened to, and in many ways is possibly the best. As commented by other reviewers Peter James' ability to flesh out his characters and make them totally believeable is uncanny, as is the amount of technical detail, not just police procedure, that fills his novels. Even as I approached the final stages of the book I could not decide what the outcome would be, and the author did not disappoint, providing a realistic outcome. Very well narrated as usual by David Bauckham, he certainly has a great style bringing each character you life in the unique voice that he uses for each. Highly recommended.

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    5 out of 5 stars

Entertaining

A multi-layered police procedural with the solving of a multi-national human trafficking ring running in parallel with a desperate mother's search for a liver donor for her dying daughter. Plenty of suspense and challenging questions of morality to keep the listener engaged and thinking.

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    2 out of 5 stars

average

not even nearly as good as the first 4..sorry !! Narrator was not great either. Good story, let down by the details

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Slow

I found this book very slow going and long winded through the first 2 downloads. The book could have been cut in half.
I found there were too many 'darlings' , they became annoying.
Would I recommend this book.... no not really.

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Far too much 'padding.'

We've had a few of this series, and whilst not tremendous mysteries, they have been entertaining enough in themselves. You'd have to say a bit 'Mid Summer Murders' esk. However, this time, the story was O.K., though a little telegraphed and more about the day to day work of the Police Force, with very little actual intrigue, I would have to say it was more 'Mills & Boon.' Very mushy descriptions of how enamoured the lead character was with the new love of his life, and whilst descriptions of clothes and settings are important, the irrelevant tiny details gone into at extreme depth was mind boggling. We may have more in the series, but not until we've listened to several more 'meaty' offerings.

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