Esta apasionante serie sigue a un dedicado detective mientras se enfrenta a desconcertantes casos de asesinato en el pintoresco, pero a menudo siniestro, condado de Sussex, Inglaterra. Cada entrega sumerge a los lectores en intrincadas investigaciones, desenterrando secretos ocultos y complejas tramas humanas. La incesante búsqueda de justicia del protagonista y su metódico enfoque para resolver crímenes aparentemente imposibles forman el núcleo de esta convincente ficción criminal. Es una lectura obligada para los aficionados a los procedimentalismos policiales atmosféricos y centrados en los personajes.
Cuatro cuerpos, un sospechoso, ninguna pista. El primer caso del detective Roy Grace. Se suponía que sería una broma inofensiva, pero algo ocurrió. Michael Harrison ha desaparecido y cuatro de sus amigos han muerto. Faltaban tres días para su boda y Ashley Harper, su prometida, contacta al detective Grace, un hombre atormentado por el recuerdo de su mujer desaparrecida, para pedirle ayuda. Pronto, Grace descubrirá que la única persona que conoce el paradero de Michael no tiene intención de hablar... al menos de momento.
Tom Byrce is the sole witness to a vivious murder but, when his family are threatened he should go to the police. But, supported by his wife Kellie, he bravely makes a statement to the murder team. From that moment on, the killing of the Bryce family becomes a mere formality and a grisly attraction.
Not Dead Enough is the third book by number one bestselling crime and thriller
writer Peter James, part of the multi-million-copy series featuring the
definitive Brighton detective, Roy Grace.
Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed. Abby was about to realize she had just made the worst mistake of her life ... Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton businessman and ne'er-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime, to shed his debts, disappear and reinvent himself in another country.
La vida de Lynn Barrett se convierte en una pesadilla cuando a su hija Caitlin se le diagnostica un cáncer de hígado terminal. La escasez de órganos hace que la desesperada Lynn recurra a un traficante de órganos, quien casi enseguida le confirma que ha encontrado a una donante perfecta. Entretanto, Roy Grace está trabajando en un caso en que a los restos de tres jóvenes que han aparecido en las profundidades de la costa de Brighton les faltan los órganos vitales? La pista llevará a Grace al este de Europa, donde operan las mafias de traficantes de órganos.
En el hotel Metropole de Brighton, la noche de Nochevieja una mujer es brutalmente violada cuando regresa a su habitacion. Una semana mas tarde alguien ataca a otra mujer. el violador se lleva los zapatos de las dos... el detective Roy Grace se da cuenta
"Roy Grace sets his sights on America in this next crime novel by the #1 international bestselling author" Carly Chase is still traumatized ten days after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered. Now Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex Police force issues a stark and urgent warning to Carly: She could be next. The student had deadly connections. Connections that stretch across the Atlantic to America and an organized crime group. Someone has sworn revenge and won't rest until the final person involved in that fateful accident is dead. The police advise Carly her only option is to go into hiding and change her identity. The terrified woman disagrees. She knows these people have ways of hunting you down anywhere. If the police are unable to stop them, she has to find a way to do it herself. But already the killer is one step ahead of her, watching, waiting, and ready.
Una obsesión mortal solo es el principio? Para el productor de Los Angeles Larry Brooker, esta es la película que podría traerle la suerte que durante tanto tiempo le ha estado esquivando. Para la estrella mundial, Gaia, desesperada porque se la tomen en serio como actriz, este es el papel que podría darle una nominación a los Oscars. Para la ciudad de Brighton, los ingresos y la publicidad puede llegar a traer una súper producción de Hollywood sobre la mayor historia de amor ?la del el rey Jorge IV y Maria Fitzherbet? de la que la ciudad fue escenario, son incalculables. Pero para el detective Roy Grace todo esto es una pesadilla hecha realidad. Un acosador obsesionado por Gaia anda suelto, incluso parece que ha viajado desde California a Brighton y ahí está, esperando, vigilando, acechando? «La tensión del siniestro argumento, bien entrelazada con un fino sentido del humor, de esta historia sobre gente de Hollywood que se enfrenta a un fragmento de la historia inglesa, revela que James está en perfecta forma.» The Times
In Dead Man's Time , the latest from international bestselling author Peter James, Roy Grace finds himself up against that most dangerous of all adversaries—a man with fury in his heart who has nothing to lose. New York, 1922. Five-year-old Gavin Daly and his seven-year-old sister, Aileen, are boarding the SS Mauretania to Dublin—and safety. Their mother has been shot and their Irish mobster father abducted. Suddenly, a messenger hands Gavin a piece of paper on which are written four names and eleven numbers, a cryptic message that will haunt him all his life, and his father's pocket watch. As the ship sails, Gavin watches Manhattan fade into the dusk and makes a promise, that one day he will return and find his father. Brighton, 2012. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates a savage burglary in Brighton, in which an old lady is murdered and £10m of antiques have been taken, including a rare vintage watch. To Grace's surprise, the antiques are unimportant to her family—it is the watch they want back. As his investigation probes deeper, he realizes he has kicked over a hornets nest of new and ancient hatreds. At its heart is one man, Gavin Daly, the dead woman's ninety-five-year-old brother. He has a score to settle and a promise to keep—both of which lead to a murderous trail linking the antiques world of Brighton, the crime fraternity of Spain's Marbella, and New York. Roy Grace, in a race against the clock to stop another killing, has met his most dangerous adversary yet.
Some will wait a lifetime to take their revenge...A vicious robbery at a
secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant dying. And millions of
pounds' worth of valuables have been taken. But, as Detective Superintendent
Roy Grace, heading the enquiry, rapidly learns, there is one priceless item of
sentimental value that the old woman's powerful family cherish above all else.
And they are fully prepared to take the law into their own hands, and will do
anything, absolutely anything, to get it back. Within days, Grace is racing
against the clock, following a murderous trail that leads him from the shady
antiques world of Brighton, across Europe, and all the way back to the New
York waterfront gang struggles of 1922, chasing a killer driven by the force
of one man's greed and another man's fury.
Virtual romance becomes a terrifying obsession in Want You Dead... Single girl, 29, smouldering redhead, love life that's crashed and burned. Seeks new flame to rekindle her fire. Fun, friendship and -- who knows -- maybe more? When Red Westwood meets handsome, charming and rich Bryce Laurent through an online dating agency, there is an instant attraction. But as their love blossoms, the truth about his past, and his dark side, begins to emerge. Everything he has told Red about himself turns out to be a tissue of lies, and her infatuation with him gradually turns to terror. Within a year, and under police protection, she evicts him from her flat and her life. But Red's nightmare is only just beginning. For Bryce is obsessed with her, and he intends to destroy everything and everyone she has ever known and loved - and then her too...
You are Dead is the 11th thrilling crime novel in Peter James' Roy Grace series. They were marked for death. The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fianc�e, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the block of flats where they live in Brighton. Then she screams and the phone goes dead. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vanished, leaving behind her neatly parked car and mobile phone. That same afternoon, workmen digging up a park in another part of the city, unearth the remains of a woman in her early 20s, who has been dead for 30 years. At first, to Roy Grace and his team, these two events seem totally unconnected. But then another young woman in Brighton goes missing--and yet another body from the past surfaces. Meanwhile, an eminent London psychiatrist meets with a man who claims to know information about Logan. And Roy Grace has the chilling realization that this information holds the key to both the past and present crimes . . . Does Brighton have its first serial killer in more than 80 years?
An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two dreams in life - to be
beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a
plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the second. Her philosophy on
money is simple: you can either earn it or marry it. Marrying is easy, it's
getting rid of the husband afterwards that's harder, that takes real skill.
But hey, practice makes perfect ...Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is
feeling the pressure from his superiors, his previous case is still giving him
sleepless nights, there have been major developments with his missing wife
Sandy, and an old adversary is back. But worse than all of this, he now
believes a Black Widow is operating in his city. One with a venomous mind
...and venomous skills. Soon Grace comes to the frightening realization that
he may have underestimated just how dangerous this lady is. Love You Dead is
the gripping twelfth book in Peter James' Roy Grace series.
Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, faces his most mysterious case yet in Need You Dead. Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage from hell, falls for the charms of another man who promises her the earth. But, as Lorna finds, life seldom follows the plans you've made. A chance photograph on a client's mobile phone changes everything for her. When the body of a woman is found in a bath in Brighton, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to the scene. At first it looks an open and shut case with a clear prime suspect. Then other scenarios begin to present themselves, each of them tantalizingly plausible, until, in a sudden turn of events, and to his utter disbelief, the case turns more sinister than Grace could ever have imagined.
The fourteenth novel in the highly acclaimed Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series, from international bestselling author Peter James.A parent's worst nightmare is Grace's deadliest case.Shortly after Kipp Brown, a seemingly wealthy businessman, and his teenage son, Mungo, arrive at the Amex stadium for their team's biggest-ever football game, Mungo disappears. Assuming that Mungo has gone to the loo before kick-off, Kipp calmly takes his seat. But when there's an emergency security announcement telling everyone to exvacute the stadium, Kipp begins desperately searching for his son.In the panic that follows, Kipp receives a text with a ransom demand and a terrifying warning: We have your son. If you wish to see him alive again you will not contact the police and you will follow our instructions very carefully.But as a massive, covert manhunt for the boy and his kidnappers begins, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace realizes that nothing is what it seems.
Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, exposes the dark side of the internet in Dead at First Sight.You don't know me, but I thought I knew you . . . A man waits at a London airport for Ingrid Ostermann, the love of his life, to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired NYPD cop waits in a bar in Florida's Key West for his first date with the lady who is, without question, his soulmate. The two men are about to discover they've been scammed out of almost every penny they have in the world - and that neither women exist. Meanwhile, a wealthy divorcée plunges, in suspicious circumstances, from an apartment block in Munich. In the same week, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to investigate the suicide of a woman in Brighton, that is clearly not what it seems. As his investigations continue, a handsome Brighton motivational speaker comes forward. He's discovered his identity is being used to scam eleven different women, online. The first he knew of it was a phone call from one of them, out of the blue, saying, 'You don't know me, but I thought I knew you'. That woman is now dead. Roy Grace realizes he is looking at the tip of an iceberg. A global empire built on clever, cruel internet scams and the murder of anyone who threatens to expose them.
A Brighton gangster is on trial for conspiracy to murder, following the death of a rival crime family boss. As the jury file into Lewes Crown Court, 12 anonymous people selected randomly from 50, there is one person sitting in the public gallery observing them with keen interest, and secretly filming them. Later, a group of the accused's henchmen sit around a table with the full personal details of each of the 12 jurors in front of them. They need to influence two of them--a jury can convict if directed on a 10-2 majority verdict but no less. But which two? When Roy Grace is called in to investigate a murder that has links to the accused and the trial, and the suspicion that an attempt has been made to intimidate jurors, he finds the reach and power of the accused's tentacles go higher than he had ever imagined.
Mit seinen Romanen begeistert David Baldacci ein Millionenpublikum. Auch diese Anthologie ist ein Buch der Superlative. als Herausgeber versammelt Baldacci die Crème de la Crème der weltbesten Spannungsautoren zu einem nie dagewesenen Wettstreit: Jeweils zwei große Autoren schreiben zusammen eine Kriminalgeschichte, in der ihre bekannten Ermittlerfiguren aufeinandertreffen. So etwa führt ein Mordgeständnis Ian Rankins John Rebus in den englischen Süden zu Peter James’ Roy Grace, Lee Childs Jack Reacher trifft in einer Bostoner Bar auf Joseph Finders Nick Heller, und Dennis Lehanes Patrick Kenzie bringt ein alter Fall ins pulsierende Los Angeles zu Michael Connellys Harry Bosch.
In this unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world's favourite crime writers bring you original, co-written short stories featuring their much-loved series characters. FACE OFF includes the first meeting of Ian Rankin's Rebus and Peter James' Roy Grace; a case for Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie and Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, as well as a page-turning mystery starring Lee Child's Jack Reacher and Joseph Finder's Nick Heller. Edited by international bestseller David Baldacci, this exclusive page-turning collection is one of a kind. Read on to discover the full list of author and character pairings: Lee Child's Jack Reacher + Joseph Finder's Nick Heller Ian Rankin's John Rebus + Peter James' Roy Grace Michael Connelly's Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch + Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme + John Sanford's Lucas Davenport Linwood Barclay's Glen Garber + Raymond Khoury's Sean Reilly Linda Fairstein's Alexandra Cooper + Steve Martini's Paul Madriani Steve Berry's Cotton Malone + James Rollins' Gray Pierce Lisa Gardner's D.D. Warren + MJ Rose's Malachai Samuels T. Jefferson Parker's Joe Trona and John Lescroart's Wyatt Hunt Heather Graham's Michael Quinn + F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child's Aloysius Pendergast + R.L. Stine's Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy
A Twist of the Knife is Peter James's gripping first full-length collection of short stories now containing the novellas The Perfect Murder, Footloose written with Val McDermid and In The Nick of Time written with Ian Rankin. With each twist of the knife, a chilling new journey begins . . . From a woman intent on bizarre revenge to a restaurant critic with a morbid fear of the number thirteen, and from a man arranging a life-changing assignation to a couple heading for a disaster-filled vacation . . . In multimillion-copy bestselling author Peter James's collection of short stories we first come to meet Brighton's finest detective, Roy Grace, in his first case as a young constable and read the tale that went on to inspire James's hugely successful novel, Dead Simple. Each tale carries a twist that will haunt readers for days after they turn the final page . . . Combining every twisted tale from the eBook bestsellers Short Shockers: Collection One and Short Shockers: Collection Two, A Twist of the Knife shows Peter James as the undisputed grand master of storytellers with this sometimes funny, often haunting, but always shocking collection. 'Peter will send chills up your spine and make you jump at all those bumps in the night. Easily digestible and each one as fantastically goose bump-inducing as the last . . . Brilliant stuff' - Heat
