Synonymous with plot-twisting page-turners, Peter has garnered an army of loyal fans throughout his storytelling career – which also included stints writing for TV and producing films. 1s under his belt, he has achieved global book sales of over 20 million copies to date and has been translated into 37 languages. I’m deeply fascinated by the many facets of police work, and particularly how it is changing with the times, and my research for the Grace novels takes me through almost all of it.Peter James is a global bestselling author, best known for writing crime and thriller novels, and the creator of the much-loved Detective Superintendent Roy Grace.
He uses everything available, from high tech to old fashioned police slog, from forensics and pathology analysis, and because of his own interest in the paranormal, is open to input from mediums and clairvoyants. Grace’s own experience and personal loss – his wife, Sandy, has been missing for nine years – leaves him open-minded to all methods of police work in order to find the truth about the cases he investigates – and to try to find out what happened to his wife. “Roy Grace is a new, and very different detective, based in Brighton, in England – a city that is the favoured place to live in the UK for first divison criminals (I was told this by a former Chief Constable). Peter explains why he created Detective Superintendent Roy Grace: The stunning first novel in a gripping new mystery series, Dead Simple marks the triumphant return of one of Britain’s most ingenious crime writers.
For one man’s disaster is another man’s fortune…Dead simple… But then he has a lot to gain – more than anyone realizes. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrison’s whereabouts is saying nothing. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Grace – a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife – is contacted by Michael’s beautiful, distraught fiancée, Ashley Harper. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead and Michael Harrison has disappeared. It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank.
The first case for Detective Superintendent Roy Grace.
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