Thankyou to Macmillan Australia for providing me with a copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review. James is back to his imperious best in Left You Dead, with a plot that will keep you on your toes, plus a decent balance of the other ingredients that have made this series one of the strongest and most reliable police procedurals around. A few days later Niall is arrested on suspicion of her murder despite vigorously protesting his innocence. Certainly not one of the best in this series which I feel is gradually drifting down to the ordinary.

One of the storylines that seemed to be irrelevant might have been because it was a major point in a previous book? There's quite a lot going on in the book and Roy and Cleo are going through some tuff personal stuff.From the outset the reader knows that Niall couldn't have possibly have done it but the amount of evidence against him soon piles up - not helped that there was already cat litter in the family home along with a plethora of true crime DVDs and books.

Overall, Left You Dead is addictive, crafty, slightly emotional, and unbelievably already the seventeenth novel in the Roy Grace series and even though this one is a little meatier at just over 500 pages, I still have yet to read a book by James that didn’t captivate, satisfy, and highly entertain me and I’m happy to say this latest one is also no exception. This book sees Grace investigating the disappearance of Eden Paternoster, who drops in to Tesco for kitty litter while her husband Niall waits outside. And on the personal front there is a punch in the gut moment part way through that has left me not being able to decide whether it’s a genius bit of drama or a dirty great cop-out!I really did enjoy the mystery, even if it was a little predictable and, at times, far fetched, I was just left a bit confused at the irrelevant storylines, that meandered off on a tangent for no reason. He drives home hoping to find her there but all is quiet in the house, he rings family and friends but still no luck. There is a second plot that explores the deep and emotional theme of organ donation and how vital it is. So after a very dissapointing last book in the series, I was giving this one a go, perhaps out of having loved the series up to then.