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Thus we have the basis for the latest Peter James Roy Grace crime thriller. Tim Ruddle and his wife became fed up living in London and bought a farm in Sussex.<\/p>\n
The Ruddles begin breeding dogs but one night a gang arrive in the middle of the night to steal their new litter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tim Ruddle is woken by the noise of vehicles in his yard and when he goes down to investigate he is crushed to death by two vehicles.<\/p>\n
Grace and the team become involved in investigating the murder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Grace and his second wife Cleo are interested in getting another dog and take their young son Noah to see a puppy. However, alarm bells ring when the Graces go to see a new potential pup.<\/p>\n
A few books back, I was convinced that Roy’s German son Bruno was going to kill Humphrey, the Graces’ black lab.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Bruno was killed, I was happy that Humphrey would be safe.<\/p>\n
Some time after Bruno’s death, Peter James told me that one thing his readers would not accept was cruelty to animals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Peter James does have a talent for creating grotesque characters and in this book, it is Gecko who likes to place live spiders in his mouth to shock and scare people.<\/p>\n
Gecko works for Terry Jim, a thug who owns a farm, and is the head of a crime family.<\/p>\n
He sells puppies that he has illegally imported from Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n
His stepdaughter is a kennel maid along with two other young girls. The three are suspicious of Jim’s behaviour and one, a Ukrainian, disappears.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The third, Lindsay Cheetham, decides to contact the police but does Jim know of her plan?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
To add to the drama, Bluebell Fairfax, the young daughter of a local lawyer pesters her parents for a puppy and they buy one from a man in a pub car park.<\/p>\n
As she admires the dogs, one of them nips her on the nose but it is only a scratch – isn’t it?<\/p>\n
While Roy tries to find out who killed Tim Ruddle, crime strikes the Graces closer to home and can Bluebell survive a disease that hasn’t been seen in Britain for more than a hundred years?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Peter James writes big books – this one has 447 pages – but the story zips by and Stop Them Dead<\/em> is no exception.<\/p>\n In the story arc, Sandy Grace, Roy’s first wife, vanishes before the story begins but now we can find out what happened to her in the next book Sandy’s Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n I am looking forward to seeing if my latest theory will pan out. I got Humphrey wrong so, please, no one put any money on it but I reckon Roy wasn’t Bruno’s father but the boy was sired by Roy’s bitter enemy Cassian Pewe.<\/p>\n We know he had an affair with Sandy and when she vanished, he ordered the Graces’ garden to be dug up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Thus we have the basis for the latest Peter James Roy Grace crime thriller. Tim Ruddle and his wife became fed up living in London and bought a farm in Sussex. The Ruddles begin breeding dogs but one night a gang arrive in the middle of the night to steal their new litter.\u00a0 Tim …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1023],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}