PUMP-it-out author Peter James either has a hankering to return to his screenwriting days or fancies turning his talents to a TV detective series. His plot for Not Dead Yet is teetering somewhere in the middle, in a rather uncomfortable balancing act.The dialogue and some larger than life characters are pure movie script material, but the threads woven in from previous novels and loose ends left hanging at the end feel more like a TV saga than a neat stand-along novel.Sadly the loose ends aren’t left hanging as in the term cliff-hanger, because this novel isn’t that big. It’s a hill hanger, perhaps. Or a bump-in-the-road hanger. Certainly not a novel that made me want to rush out and read all the previous books involving Detective Roy Grace, nor put my name on the list for the next unexciting instalment.DetailsTITLE: Not Dead YetAUTHOR: Peter JamesPUBLISHER: MacmillanDespite all the wonderful reviews James attracts and no matter how many bestseller lists it tops, Not Dead Yet is a p...
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