American mobsters face off against England's greatest detective, Roy Grace, in Peter James' #1 international bestseller Dead Man's GripCarly Chase is still traumatized ten days after being in a fatal traffic accident that kills a teenage American student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered. Now Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex Police force issues a stark and urgent warning to Carly: She could be next.                           The student had deadly connections.