[Brighton] Grace ***May Contain Spoilers***

[The Albion Roar]

It's a long time since I read the first book, so I may have got this wrong, but I don't recall Grace being assigned to a dead end job. I'm sure he's in charge of the case in fact. And in a later book, he's up for promotion and loses out to Cassian Pewe. I'm not sure how the producers of the TV show are going to manage to fix it so a high-flying officer up for a senior role is an officer under threat of dismissal.

The detective who's always being taken off the case by a superior officer is a bit of a cliche in TV detective shows and I'm not sure it's needed here.

When's Cleo coming in?

I don't recall Cleo becoming a more major character until book three or four. If she was in earlier, there was certainly no hint at luuurve. Also, if she was in the first book, given the time constraints, it is a plot device that can wait for the TV series.

My concern - assuming they film the rest of the books - is how they get the Sandy sub-plot into each 96-minute show without making the rest of the detective story seem rushed or squashed.

 

[timbha]

It is a long time since I read it as well but I thought she was in Dead Simple but obviously not as his lady friend. Must have been cut out.

2005. Don’t recall there being an autopsy in Dead Simple so no Cleo.

 

[scooter1]

My worst fear is being buried alive. I had to turn it off at that point, I simply couldn't watch it.

I suffer with claustrophobia to that extreme and struggled with the book. In the end I had to read the end of the book first, and knowing that he survived made reading the book manageable. Watching the adaptation was tough at times, even knowing the outcome...
The books are good, but you need a break in between them. I binge read a few, but had to give myself a break

 

[aolstudios]

When they were walking through the North lains they walked past the same shop about 3 times...it was selling dresses for £5.

*Laine*

 

[Grassman]

I quite enjoyed it, I have to say, though the missus fell asleep. I’m incredibly relieved to see others struggled with the buried alive in the coffin bit, because that made me very uncomfortable! People keep saying it’s one of their greatest fears, but surely that’s effing normal, isn’t it? I mean who doesn’t fear being buried alive?
For those who are squeamish and anxious about it, I sure I read somewhere that when opening old coffins many were found to have scratch marks on the inside, due they seem to think to lack of medical knowledge and actually burying people alive who were in comas. Now, that is horrific. How lucky we are to be born in the modern world.

 

[Hornblower]

There or somewhere close - I assumed it was a top floor flat in the so-called New England Quarter, maybe a little further north? You could see Theobald House as well as St Barts but also New England House.

I’ve stayed in the Jury’s penthouse suites and I didn’t recognise the one in the show, could have been nearby though as you say.

 

[Hornblower]

I’ve stayed in the Jury’s penthouse suites and I didn’t recognise the one in the show, could have been nearby though as you say.

Just to add, a couple of posters have said that Jury’s doesn’t have penthouse suites which is true. But, there are penthouse apartments above Jury’s, I stayed in one for the 2019 Labour Party conference.

 

[Grassman]

Just to add, a couple of posters have said that Jury’s doesn’t have penthouse suites which is true. But, there are penthouse apartments above Jury’s, I stayed in one for the 2019 Labour Party conference.

Bloody champagne socialists......

 

[BN9 BHA]

Just to add, a couple of posters have said that Jury’s doesn’t have penthouse suites which is true. But, there are penthouse apartments above Jury’s, I stayed in one for the 2019 Labour Party conference.

No need to blow your trumpet about it.

 

[Grassman]

No need to blow your trumpet about it.

I do believe it’s a saxophone!

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

I'm sure it's a failing in me, but I've tried to read the books and there's something about Peter James's writing that I just can't take. It's not just him - I struggle to finish even a page of Terry Pratchett, Val McDermid or Mervyn Peake. I wanted to like them, so I'm glad they're being dramatised ...

 

[Hornblower]

No need to blow your trumpet about it.

Sorry, it did read a bit pompous.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Sorry, it did read a bit pompous.

Only joking

 

[vegster]

I'm sure it's a failing in me, but I've tried to read the books and there's something about Peter James's writing that I just can't take. It's not just him - I struggle to finish even a page of Terry Pratchett, Val McDermid or Mervyn Peake. I wanted to like them, so I'm glad they're being dramatised ...

How can you not read Terry Pratchett? The guy was a genius when it came to satire. Incredibly funny and incredibly clever.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

How can you not read Terry Pratchett? The guy was a genius when it came to satire. Incredibly funny and incredibly clever.

Different people like different things. Somebody gave me a Terry Pratchett book for Christmas a couple of years ago. I’ve not yet managed to get past page 30......

Proust, on the other hand......

 

[drew]

So, thought this was going to be a new series but turns out it's a one off with another 'one off' later in the year!

 

[bhafc99]

So, thought this was going to be a new series but turns out it's a one off with another 'one off' later in the year!

I hadn’t even realised it was going to be ‘the whole story in one episode’ when I started to watch.

Had just assumed it was going to be a 2 or 3 parter or something. I know I could have checked the TV listings etc and seen it was a one-off, but that’s a bit of a faff from Dubai.

After a while it became apparent they were going to cover it all in about 95+ minutes, once you take out the ads, credits etc. Did diminish it a little in my mind, I’d rather have it seen it develop over a couple of nights than be neatly packed into a “Midsomer” one-off format.


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[Solid at the back]

Thought it was absolutely rubbish

 

[Beach Hut]

I'm sure it's a failing in me, but I've tried to read the books and there's something about Peter James's writing that I just can't take.

Same with me read one book and had a spitting image moment of the Jeffrey Archer sketch when writing his next book at a typewriter "crap, crap, crap, crap........."

It was OK as a TV drama

 

[Worthing exile]

I hadn’t even realised it was going to be ‘the whole story in one episode’ when I started to watch.

Had just assumed it was going to be a 2 or 3 parter or something. I know I could have checked the TV listings etc and seen it was a one-off, but that’s a bit of a faff from Dubai.

After a while it became apparent they were going to cover it all in about 95+ minutes, once you take out the ads, credits etc. Did diminish it a little in my mind, I’d rather have it seen it develop over a couple of nights than be neatly packed into a “Midsomer” one-off format.


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Agree when they were in the woods checking out the building site, when they pulled the corrugated stuff back that would have been a perfect cliffhanger.