Adam Woodyatt starts the story as a smartly dressed businessman, and slowly his story becomes one of despair, you witness the constant arguments with his wife who seems far too accustomed to spend vast amounts of money on pointless ‘things’. Photo Credit : Alastair MuirĪs the story unfolds you learn more about the family, including their older son who is on a gap year in South America and their financial problems. What they then witness on screen was to change their pathway forever….

The start of the performance begins in the Bryce’s living room, with Tom Bryce (Adam Woodyatt) returning from work, his wife Kellie (Gaynor Faye) ferociously cleaning the kitchen and their teenage son Max (Luke Ward-Wilkinson) lounging on the sofa with his headphones on and playing on an electronic device – certainly similar to the teens in my house! Tom recounts a story of a very loud man on the train that everyone could hear his conversation (we’ve all been there!) and that he had dropped a usb stick, so instead of handing it in to lost property, he decides to play detective himself and try to locate the owner.Īs soon as he put the usb in the laptop and it was password encrypted, you know he should have stopped, but no he calls on his son Max to help him crack the passcode with some dodgy password cracking software! The action takes place in the present day at the Bryce Household and the surrounding areas of Brighton. When Detective Superintendent Roy Grace becomes involved, he has his own demons to contend with while he tries to crack the case in time to save the Bryce family’s lives. Reporting the crime to the police has disastrous consequences, placing him and his family in grave danger. hours after picking up a USB memory stick, left behind on a train seat, Tom Bryce inadvertently becomes a witness to a vicious murder. I had not read the book (sometimes it’s nice to not know the story or the outcome!) And all we knew was… Last Night Neva and I were invited along to Norwich Theatre Royal to review Looking Good Dead, another of Peter James’ novels brought to life on the stage.

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