Imagined crossover · Police detectives
What if Tom Thorne met Roy Grace?
The London cop and the Brighton cop. Two dedicated detectives who never give up on a victim.
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The pair
Chemistry8/10
Friction5/10
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Where and when
Brighton and London
The 2000s and 2010s
The story
- How they might meet
- A killer moving between London and Brighton brings Thorne down the A23 and into Roy Grace’s incident room.
- Why they would work
- Two dedicated detectives who never give up on a victim.
- What each brings
- Thorne has dark experience and an instinct for killers. Grace is thorough, methodical and an innovator in police methods.
- Where they would clash
- Thorne breaks rules; Grace bends them only as far as his superintendent will allow.
Strengths compared
Tom Thorne Roy Grace
Our own ratings out of 10, for fun.
On the page together
The years in which each character's books were published.
Read your way in
Start with each character's first appearance.
- SleepyheadMark Billingham · 2001 · Tom Thorne's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
- Dead SimplePeter James · 2005 · Roy Grace's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
