Peter James

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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1988
  • Latest Book:
    July 3024
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Peter James is one of the UK’s most popular crime and thriller novelists. His Roy Grace detective novels have sold more than one and a half million in the UK alone and six million worldwide in total. The series is now translated into 34 languages and his latest novel, ‘Dead Like You’, went straight into the Sunday Times bestseller lists at no 1 in both hardback and paperback. His novella, ‘The Perfect Murder,’ went to No 1 on iBooks and has spent 40 consecutive weeks in the iBooks Top 10. Peter has developed a close working relationship with the Sussex Police over many years, spending an average of one day a week with them, and his writing reveals a unique insight into the reality of modern day police work. He has carried out extensive research with police in Moscow, Munich, Paris, Melbourne, Sweden, New York and Romania, and regularly attends international police conferences to ensure he is at the cutting-edge of investigative police work.

Born and brought up in Brighton, Peter divides his time between his homes in Notting Hill, London and on the South Downs near Lewes in Sussex. An established film producer and script writer, he has produced numerous films, including The Merchant Of Venice, starring Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes. A TV adaptation of the Roy Grace series is currently in development, with Peter overseeing all aspects, including the scriptwriting. In 2009 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Brighton in recognition of his services to literature and the community.

Full Series List in Order

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace

1 - Dead Simple (Jan-2006)
2 - Looking Good Dead (Mar-2007)
3 - Not Dead Enough (Jun-2007)
4 - Dead Man's Footsteps (Jun-2008)
5 - Dead Tomorrow (Dec-2009)
6 - Dead Like You (Dec-2010)
7 - Dead Man's Grip (Nov-2011)
8 - Not Dead Yet (Dec-2012)
9 - Dead Man's Time (Oct-2013)
10 - Want You Dead (Nov-2014)
11 - You Are Dead (Oct-2015)
12 - Love You Dead (Oct-2016)
13 - Need You Dead (Jun-2017)
14 - Dead If You Don't (Jul-2018)
15 - Dead at First Sight (Aug-2019)
16 - Find Them Dead (Sep-2020)
17 - Left You Dead (May-2021)
17.5 - Wish You Were Dead (Jan-2021)
18 - Picture You Dead (Sep-2022)
19 - Stop Them Dead (Oct-2023)
19.5 - Sandy's Story ()
20 - One Of Us Is Dead (Oct-2024)

Book List in Order: 47 titles

  • Possession

    A terrifying novel of a young man who is willing to defy everything. Even death...Fabian Hightower has been killed in a car crash. At least, that is what a policeman is asking Alex, his mother to believe. But Alex knows she saw him that morning - at ...

  • Dreamer

    When waking from your dream means living your nightmare...The last time the dream came, Sam was seven years old; and that was the night her parents were to die.Twenty-five years later, Sam's nightmares are starting to come true once more. Now a succe...

  • Sweet Heart

    'This book inflicts more shocks than an electric fence.' Daily MailCharley has a strange feeling when she sees the idyllic mill house with its cluster of outbuildings, the lake and the swirling mill stream; a powerful sense of recognition, as if she ...

  • Twilight

    Three muffled thuds ring from the partially filled grave of the newly wed girl. Only the verger hears them and he dismisses the noise as his imagination. But over the next few days others also hear faint sounds.An exhumation order is granted. Reporte...

  • Prophecy

    A game that turns to a nightmare ...Non Omnis MoriarI shall not altogether dieA young boy watches his mother die. A sadistic man dies in agony. Drunk students play with a Ouija board in a damp cellar. Can bricks and mortar retain imprints of the emot...

  • Host

    How far would you go to live forever?Brilliant scientist Joe Messenger believes that people can be made to live for ever. Knowing the human body can be frozen indefinitely, Joe devises a way of downloading the human brain into a supercomputer called ...

  • Dead Simple

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 1

    Michael Harrison had it all: good looks, charm, natural leadership, a wicked sense of humor, and now Ashley, his fiancee. While out celebrating with a group of friends a few nights before the wedding, Michael suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself e...

  • Looking Good Dead

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 2

    Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking up the CD that had been left behind on the train seat next to him, and attempting to return it to its owner, he is the sole witness to a vicious murder. Then his young family ...

  • Not Dead Enough

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 3

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace thinks he’s found a serial killer, but not everything is as it seems in Not Dead Enough, by award-winning crime author Peter James. Now a major ITV series, Grace, adapted for television by screenwriter Russell Lew...



  • Dead Man's Footsteps

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 4

    The discovery of a woman’s body and a link to the events of 9/11 take Detective Superintendent Roy Grace around the world in Dead Man’s Footsteps, by award-winning crime author Peter James. Now a major ITV series, Grace, adapted for television by...

  • Dead Tomorrow

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 5

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is caught up in the murky world of human trafficking in Dead Tomorrow, by award-winning crime writer Peter James. Now a major ITV series, Grace, adapted for television by screenwriter Russell Lewis and starring John...

  • The Perfect Murder

    The Perfect Murder is a suspenseful and gripping novella from Peter James, the bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Roy Grace series.How do you commit the perfect murder?Victor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for nearly twenty...

  • Alchemist

    What doesn't kill you makes you stronger...Monty Bannerman's father is a leading genetic scientist, and Nobel Prize winner, whose company has just been taken over by what will soon be the world's biggest pharmaceutical giant. He had some misgivings a...

  • Denial

    Introducing policeman Glenn Branson...When actress Gloria Lamark takes her own life, her devoted son, Thomas, is heart-broken. Something must be wrong with a world in which such a tragedy is allowed to happen. How could her high-profile, media-star p...

  • Faith

    How perfect is too perfect?Ross Ransome is at the top of his profession; one of the most successful, and certainly one of the richest, plastic surgeons in the business. Such a man would expect his wife to be perfect - and why not? After all, he ha...

  • The Truth

    20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHORA thrilling tale of suspense from the bestselling author of the Roy Grace series.'Britain's answer to Stephen King and Michael Crichton.' Sunday TelegraphSusan and John Carter are crazy ...

  • Dead Like You

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 6

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is forever haunted by the unexplained disappearance of his wife, Sandy, nearly ten years ago. Ever since she went missing, hes been consumed with finding out what happened to her. Finally, he may be moving on. He ha...

  • Dead Man's Grip

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 7

    Carly Chase is still traumatized ten days after being in a fatal traffic accident that kills a teenage American student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two...

  • Perfect People

    In Peter James' "Perfect People," when a young couple learn they are both carriers of a gene likely to give their children a rare genetic disease, they visit a secret clinic for a 'designer baby.' But it does not all work out as planned... After t...



  • Christmas is for the Kids

    It was Christmas Eve when Kate saw the young boy, struggling to hold the groceries in the supermarket. When she offers to give him a lift, it isn't long before his sadness hints at a deeper tragedy. What happened that Christmas at the Hogarth plac...

  • Guilty Until Proven Innocent

    This is the story of how a number of lives came together on a fateful evening, and of how some ended together. The ensuing conspiracy within the legal system to justify an impossible scenario is hard to believe. It is a true story of life and death, ...

  • Dead Man Laughing

    Deadly obsession is only the beginning...For LA producer Larry Brooker, this is the movie that could bring the fortune that has so long eluded him...For rock superstar, Gaia, desperate to be taken seriously as an actor, this is the role that could ge...

  • Not Dead Yet

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 8

    Roy Grace tracks a stalker obsessed with a Hollywood starlet in Not Dead Yet, the latest from #1 international bestselling author Peter James Days before one of Hollywood’s hottest stars, Gaia Lafayette, leaves her Bel Air home for a movie role ...

  • Dead Man's Time

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 9

    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 Gavi...

  • Dead Letter Drop

    Now reissued with a brand new introduction by Peter James, Dead Letter Drop is Peter James'' first ever novel, originally published in 1981. Max Flynn, undercover agent, has the unenviable job of spying on his own side. When to kill, who to kill, whe...

  • A Twist of the Knife

    Combining stories from ebook story collections Short Shockers One and Short Shockers Two, and with never-before-seen new material, this is a story collection you won't forget. From a woman intent on revenge, to a restaurant critic with a fear of ...

  • Want You Dead

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 10

    Single girl, 29, redhead and smouldering, love life that's crashed and burned. Seeks new flame to rekindle her fire. Fun, friendship and--who knows--more maybe? Red Cameron meets handsome, charming and rich thirty-five year old Bryce Laurent throu...

  • Atom Bomb Angel

    Atom Bomb Angel is a reissued early thriller from multi-million-copy bestselling author, Peter James. Terrorists are threatening to sabotage Britain's nuclear power plants. One nuclear explosive smuggled inside a reactor would turn the entire cor...

  • The House on Cold Hill

    From a New York Times"bestselling author, “a superbly creepy modern horror story” about a family who discovers their home is inhabited by an evil spirit(Sunday Mirror).   Ollie and Caro Harcourt are moving into a new house with their twelv...



  • You Are Dead

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 11

    In Peter James' You Are Dead, the last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somervile, are in a terrified mobile phone call from her. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the apartment block where they live in Brighton...

  • Billionaire

    A reissue of this early thriller by Peter James.City stockbroker Alex Rocq leads a comfortable life - with a luxury flat in London, a country cottage, a very expensive car and a lucrative job that still leaves time for leisure. But all this isn''t en...

  • Love You Dead

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 12

    A shocking reveal threatens to unravel Detective Superintendent Roy Grace’s happy new life in Love You Dead, by award winning crime author Peter James.Grace is newly married, having moved to a country cottage with Cleo and their baby son. But his f...

  • Need You Dead

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 13

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace faces his most mysterious case yet in the gripping crime novel Need You Dead, by award winning author Peter James.Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage from hell, falls for the charms of a man who promises...

  • Dead If You Don't

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 14

    A PARENT'S WORST NIGHTMARE IS GRACE'S DEADLIEST CASE . . . Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, faces his most complex case yet in Dead If You Don't. Kipp Brown, successful businessman and compulsive g...

  • Absolute Proof

    What would it take to prove the existence of God? This question and the consequences of its answer lies at the heart of Absolute Proof, the new international thriller from bestselling author Peter James. To provide absolute proof of a divine existenc...

  • Dead at First Sight

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 15

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace exposes the dark side of internet dating in the intriguing crime novel Dead at First Sight, by award winning author Peter James.A man waits at a London airport for the love of his life to arrive. Across the Atlantic...

  • The Secret of Cold Hill

    From a New York Times bestseller, the site where a haunted house once stood still holds the ghosts of its former residents in this horror novel sequel. The terrifying sequel to the bestselling The House on Cold Hill, from a master of spine-chilling h...

  • Find Them Dead

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 16

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace unearths a powerful criminal network in the sinister crime novel Find Them Dead, by award winning author Peter James.Ending his secondment to London’s Met Police, Roy Grace gets a tip-off about a drugs mastermind ...

  • I Follow You

    A spine-tingling thriller of obsession from bestselling author Peter James.To the outside world, suave, charming and confident doctor Marcus Valentine has it all. A loving wife, three kids, a great job. But there''s something missing, there always ha...



  • Wish You Were Dead

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 17.5

    Wish You Were Dead is a Quick Read short story from bestselling author Peter James.Roy Grace and his family have left Sussex behind for a week’s holiday in France. The website promised a grand house, but when they arrive the place is very different...

  • Left You Dead

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 17

    NO BODY. NO TRACE. NO CRIME? Niall and Eden Paternoster start their Sunday the same way they always do -- with a long drive, a visit to a country house and a quick stop at the local supermarket on the way home. But this Sunday ends different...

  • Picture You Dead

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 18

    ‘Peter James is one of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world’ " Lee Child, author of The Jack Reacher seriesA long-lost masterpiece sparks deadly violence " and sets Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on t...

  • A Stamp Of A Criminal

  • Stop Them Dead

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 19

    ‘Peter James is one of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world’ - LEE CHILD, author of the Jack Reacher seriesDiscover the darkness that lurks around every corner in the latest instalment of the award-winning Gr...

  • They Thought I Was Dead

    Creator of Her Majesty Queen Camilla’s favourite fictional detective.23 million books sold.'One of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world' - Lee ChildPeter James, the number one, multi-million copy bestselling au...

  • One Of Us Is Dead

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 20

    'One of the best British crime writers' " Lee ChildRoy Grace is about to find out just how dangerous a dead man can be . . . Arriving late for a funeral, James Taylor spots a familiar face in the church " his old schoolfriend Rufus Rorke.Except i...

  • Sandy's Story

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    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - 19.5

    Peter James, the number one multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Grace series, returns with a thrilling new novel: a Roy Grace story told from a different perspective.Some will know how it begins . . .My name is Sandy.My husband is Detecti...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter James has published 47 books.

The next book by Peter James, Sandy's Story, will be published in July 3024.

The first book by Peter James, Possession, was published in November 1988.

Yes. Peter James has 1 series.
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