Looking Good Dead by Peter James

Mind your own business would have been good words of advice for Tom Bryce. Coming home from London on the train, Tom finds a cd-rom that another passenger has left behind. He decides to take it home and try and find out whose it is. When he opens it that evening, he sees what appears to be a woman being murdered. Tom then gets a message telling him not to contact the authorities. However, after discussing it with his wife, Kellie, he goes to the police. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is assigned to the case. Soon, it becomes clear that the killer meant business when he threatened the Bryce family. Will Grace be able to protect Tom's family and solve the murder? Dead Simple was the first book in the Roy Grace series and in Looking Good Dead, James gives us another suspenseful police procedural with details of Grace's personal life along with descriptions of Brighton. Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series set in Yorkshire is a lot like these mysteries.