Looking Good Dead (2006)

Peter James's second Roy Grace novel begins with a disc left on a train and leads the Brighton detective to a snuff-film ring run by the obese, pigtailed Carl Venner. The climax on a car-park roof leaves Grace holding the villain's watch. (Open Library)

Watches

Breitling (unidentified model): Grace and Nick Nicholl hold Venner by the wrists as his helicopter hangs over the edge of a multi-storey car park, the metal strap of Venner's watch cutting into Grace's hand. After the helicopter falls, Grace finds the blue-faced Breitling on its broken bracelet in his own bloodied hand, and Norman Potting names the brand. No model is given.

Source text: He looked down and saw a blue-faced Breitling watch on a broken metal bracelet. It was covered in blood. His own blood. (Peter James, Looking Good Dead, scan cataloged as Pan Books, 2006, pp. 400, 401; Internet Archive scan OCR)