Van Dam is ready to write this new patient off as unstable until Hunter offers an important clue-Logan’s abductor has branded the young woman’s inner thigh with the words “You Are Dead”. Hunter claims to have some important information about Logan’s whereabouts. Harrison Hunter, whose very presence unsettles Dr. Van Dam has an unusual new patient consultation with a Dr.

One of these characters is esteemed semi-retired psychiatrist Jacob Van Dam, Logan’s uncle. Logan’s abduction remains the central event throughout the plot, and James introduces a number of secondary characters with interesting backstories-and enough of a history with Logan to make it seem as though any one of them could be the culprit. The pressure is on-Grace and his team must find Logan and discover the killer’s identity while keeping the town’s residents (particularly the young women) safe and the panic levels low. After a series of related events, Grace determines that the town of Brighton now has a serial killer among them. Could there be a connection? It’s up to Grace and his team to find out.Īuthors have to constantly stay one step ahead of the reader because of a reading public that gets more and more sophisticated and savvy, and James does this beautifully in You Are Dead. In the meantime, another young woman is abducted. As Grace and his team dig deeper, they find more than a few similarities between the two incidents. The remains are determined to be approximately 30 years old. Soon after Logan is abducted, the remains of a young woman determined to be in her early twenties are unearthed at a construction site. Logan, a beautiful young woman with long brown hair, has a bright future ahead of her-a fledgling but steadily growing chiropractic practice, a loving family, Jamie… Or does she? As James reveals more of the Logan/Jamie dynamic, the young man’s intentions become murkier. Hours after the young woman is reported missing, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace and his Major Crime Team are called to the scene. Logan is the latest in a series of young women to be stalked and abducted in the normally peaceful, quiet town of Brighton, UK. That’s a lot of action which raises a lot of questions in a short time, but author Peter James manages to grab the reader from the first few pages in his latest thriller, You Are Dead. Jamie Ball gets a terrified phone call from his fiancée, Logan Somerville, and suddenly he hears a horrible scream before the line goes dead.

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