Looking Good Dead: Volume 2 (Roy Grace)

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Grace must prove that a wealthy Brighton businessman has brutally murdered his wife. 2. Not Dead Enough An inquiry into skeletal remains takes Grace down a labyrinthine trail through the past. 3. Dead Man's Footsteps There is an attempt to build a mood of gallows humour, although the comment about a pornographer wanting to move upmarket by graduating to ‘snuff’ movies featuring actual murders may not have been intended to sound funny. Online includes Barnes’ People, The Haunting of Alice Bowles (Original Theatre); 15 Heroines (Digital Theatre).

Opera includes Miranda (Opéra Comique, Paris); Scraww (Trebah Gardens); Vixen (Vaults/International Tour); Carmen: Remastered (ROH/Barbican). The family life created on stage felt very authentic, with the constant squabbles and jokes. Tom Bryce (Adam Woodyatt) was a caring father figure and realistic argument maker, probably thanks to Adam’s many years in Eastenders. Kellie Bryce (Haynor Faye) was relaxed, fun and feisty and her son Max (Luke Ward-Wilkinson) the typical tech obsessed teen. Daily Express James dreams up a horrific intersection of extreme perversion and Internet technology in his frightening, expertly constructed second Det. Supt. Roy Grace novel . . . the rapid-fire suspense builds to a terrifying, graphic conclusion that leaves tantalizing room for future installments in the seriesWhile Looking Good Dead most definitely doesn’t fall into category three of my case for the prosecution of Crimes Against Crime Writing and isn’t quite a photofit for category two either, the jury’s out on whether or not it quite deserves the ‘Get Out Of Jail Free’ card awarded for skill, flair and aplomb . I started acting when I was about nine years old, at first in commercials and then in Oliver! as one of Fagin’s Gang at the Albery Theatre (now Noel Coward). My next role was ‘Ragamuffin” in Tom Stoppard’s On the Razzle at the National Theatre and also on tour in Edinburgh and Bristol.

Elsewhere in the city, when Tom Bryce finds a disc left on a train, he simply tries to do the right thing – return it to its owner. But this attempted act of kindness makes him the sole witness to that same vicious murder. Mylo recently graduated from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is thrilled to be making his professional stage debut in Looking Good Dead. Peter James happens to be my second favourite author, after the queen that is Val McDermid of course. So I was ecstatic to learn his second novel in the Roy Grace series has been adapted into a stage play.Four of Peter James’s stories have previously been adapted into highly successful stage plays:, The Perfect Murder, Dead Simple, Not Dead Enough and The House On Cold Hill – and now Looking Good Dead! Luke has been working as an actor from a young age, starting on The Secret of Eel Island aged 10 and going on to play Evan in the first four series of ITV’s Wild at Heart and the lead Simon Doonan on BBC’s Beautiful People playing Olivia Colman’s son. DEAD SIMPLE, the first in the series, was one to read with the lights on, and LOOKING GOOD DEAD has a selection of very creepy villains. And James is particularly strong in those scenes with Tom’s family where it looks like his on the surface perfect life is collapsing around him. TV and film include The Crooked Man, Like Father Like Son, Great West End Theatres, three series of Heartbeat, Doctors and in development, Agent 160 and Oscar’s Boys. Grace, the adaptation of the Roy Grace novels, premiered on ITV in March 2021 to widespread critical acclaim, and with 8.8m viewers making it instantly one of the most successful TV dramas of 2021. A second series commissioned, which will broadcast in 2022. The series stars John Simm as Roy Grace and Richie Campbell as Glenn Branson. Peter is an executive producer on the series.

Top left: Gaynor Faye as Kellie Bryce, Luke Ward-Wilkinson as Max Bryce, Leon Stewart as Branson and Adam Woodyatt as Tom Bryce; top right: Adam Woodyatt as Tom Bryce and Gaynor Faye as Kellie Bryce Film includes Daniel in Limit of the Land, Danny in Love Does Grow on Trees, Robert in Cheerful Weather for the Wedding. Peter pursues many interests in his relaxation time, including his extensive charity work. A self-confessed “petrol head”, Peter races classic cars at circuits around the country and has been a regular at the Goodwood Revival for several years. His enthusiasm remains undimmed after a surviving a horrendous high speed crash at Brands Hatch in 2013, although his publishers and his fans might prefer he took up a somewhat safer past-time – bowls, perhaps?Overall, Looking Good Dead feels a little more lighthearted than I’m guessing James intended it to be, and a bit more school-play than you’d want from a serious thriller. When the serious thrills within the tale are allowed to come to the fore, they look good indeed; elsewhere, though, the production tends to overdo the Scooby-Doo in terms of inspiration for breathing theatrical life into this menacing drama. The series, based on the bestselling novels by novelist Peter James, [2] was adapted by acclaimed screenwriter Russell Lewis, with a pair of films, comprising the novels Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead, filmed in 2020 for broadcast in 2021. [3] Dead Simple, broadcast in March 2021, attracted an estimated 7.2m viewers, which made it the fifth-most-watched programme for the week of 8–14 March, according to BARB. [4] Television includes Vera (ITV), Endeavour (ITV), Victoria (ITV), Little Miss Jocelyn (BBC), Proof (RTE), The Bill (ITV), The Colour Of Justice (BBC). East 8 became EastEnders and now over 36 years later I have enjoyed many wonderful and different storylines. When a young woman’s body is found butchered in Brighton, Roy Grace cannot help but think of his own missing wife and her unsolved fate.