talk about roy grace.le, he is 39, just coming up to his 39th birthday and his wife, sandy, who he loved and adored, has vanished from the face of the earth. he literally comes home and she's gone. and for ten years, that was when he was 30 and for ten years he's been looking for her, doesn't know if she's been abducted, kidnapped, run off with a lover, and he functions as a very successful homicide detective but all the time he's wondering, is she going to suddenly turn up? and during the roy grace series, which is obviously ongoing, i seed a bit more about what happened and speculations. and i chose that route to go because what really good detectives do is solve puzzles and i thought, rather than having a detective with a drink problem and a broken marriage i thought it would be more interesting, because today a detective with a drink problem wouldn't last 24 hours in the british police. much more interesting to have a detective with a private puzzle he couldn't solve. if i was ever unlucky enough to ha