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Meet Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on his unforgettable first major case by award winning crime author Peter James, read by Daniel Weyman. It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. But a few hours later, the groom has disappeared and his friends are dead. With only three days to the...

'One of the best British crime writers' – Lee Child Roy 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 it couldn’t be him, could it? Because two...

A long-lost masterpiece sparks deadly violence – and sets Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on the path of a caclulating killer. Discover the darkness that lurks around every corner in Picture You Dead by Peter James. Now a major ITV drama starring John Simm as Roy Grace. Harry and Freya, an...

‘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 series Discover the darkness that lurks around every corner in the latest instalment of the award-winning Grace series by Peter James, now a major ITV...

Un acosador obsesionado por Gaia anda suelto, incluso parece que ha viajado desde California a Brighton y ahí está, esperando, vigilando, acechando… Para el detective Roy Grace todo esto es una pesadilla hecha realidad.

'One of the best British crime writers' – Lee Child A shocking reveal threatens to unravel Detective Superintendent Roy Grace’s happy new life . . . Grace is newly married, having moved to a country cottage with Cleo and their baby son. But his first, long-missing wife, now found, has left...

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 operating out of Brighton. On his first day...

The discovery of a woman's body and a link to the events of 9/11 takes Detective Superintendent Roy Grace around the world in Dead Man's Footsteps. By award winning crime author Peter James, read by Daniel Weyman (Silent Witness, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power). Amid the tragic mayhem...

En el hotel Metropole de Brighton, la noche de Nochevieja una mujer es brutalmente violada cuando regresa a su habitación. Una semana más tarde alguien ataca a otra mujer. El detective Roy Grace se da cuenta enseguida de que estos casos son muy similares a otros que quedaron sin resolver en 1997 en cuya investigación él participó. Al criminal se le apodó Hombre de los zapatos y se cree que violó a cinco mujeres antes de acabar asesinando a la sexta de sus víctimas y de desvanecerse.

Carly Chase está todavía traumatizada por el accidente de tráfico que tuvo hace unos diez días y en el que resultó muerto un estudiante de la universidad de Brighton. Roy Grace de la policía de Sussex advierte a Carly de la seriedad del peligro en el que se encuentra, porque ella podría ser la siguiente. Lo que desconoce, es que el asesino se ha anticipado y la observa, espera y se prepara.

Dunja Hougaard, la collègue danoise de Fabian Risk, a disparu de la circulation. Dans l’ombre, elle mène l’enquête contre son ancien supérieur et patron de la police de Copenhague, Kim Sleizner. Maître chanteur et violeur, il s’est sali les mains pour arriver au sommet, et depuis des mois, Dunja et son équipe rassemblent des preuves contre lui. Quand un personnage haut placé des services secrets danois est retrouvé mort en compagnie d’une inconnue dans une voiture au. fond du port de Copenhague, l’heure des règlements de compte a enfin sonné. Mais qui va payer ?

The first body is found in a hamper in the woods. Her feet were tied with a leather belt. There are traces of incense on her dismembered body, candle wax on her skin, and strange crumbs on her lips. As more butchered adolescent corpses turn up - the victims of a serial killer whose signature is the communion wafer left in each one's mouth - the evidence leads NYPD lieutenant Vince Cardozo into the sacred and moneyed world of Manhattan's exclusive parishes.

Cuando el estafador Ronnie Wilson ve cómo se desmoronan las torres gemelas en Nueva York, sus pensamientos no están con los miles de víctimas, ni con la sobrecogida ciudad escenario de los atentados terroristas. En Brighton, el protagonista de esta serie de novelas, Roy Grace investiga la aparición del esqueleto de una mujer en las costas de Brighton, lo que no hace más que despertar sus propios fantasmas: la desaparición de su propia esposa nunca esclarecida. Cuando se descubre que el cadáver es el de la esposa del estafador Wilson, la investigación se complica para Grace.

Katie Bishop, esposa de un multimillonario hombre de negocios, aparece asesinada de un modo brutal en su lujosa casa de Brighton. Su marido, Brian, está en Londres por asuntos profesionales cuando se produce el crimen; sin embargo y a pesar de una coartada aparentemente sólida, poco a poco las sospechas se ciernen sobre él hasta convertirlo en el único sospechoso. Al frente de la investigación se coloca el comisario Roy Grace, cuyo instinto, desde un primer momento, le dirá que algo en la historia de los Bishop no encaja.

Almost two years ago, Faith and Grace Tiddle arrived home from their Saturday morning dance class to find both of their parents face down in pools of blood. Five days later, the twins—only nine years old at the time—were arrested for the double homicide. And now, twenty months on, the entire country awaits with bated breath as the jury is dismissed to deliberate their verdict on a case that has become a national phenomenon. But if Lead Detective Denis Quayle—the man who knows the case better than anybody else—isn’t fully convinced of the twins’ guilt, can a jury be?

It's midsummer in British Columbia, and it's hot. Murderously hot, as RCMP Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg finds when his day at the beach with his ex is cut short by the discovery of a fresh corpse. And back in Sechelt, a nuisance call from an eccentric redneck swiftly leads Alberg into a...

For 24 years, Mary Grace Dobbs has been searching for salvation. Orphaned at 11, she was forced to go live with her Bible-salesman uncle, wheelchair-bound aunt, and a cousin who tortured and killed small animals. At school, a bully made her life a nightmare. Everything changed when a newcomer to town became her only best friend and changed a second time when that friend and another classmate vanished two months later, never to be seen again. Today, Mary Grace is the first female sheriff of her rural town, a position that doesn’t sit well with some of the locals.

Katherine Yeboah's marriage to Solomon Vanderpuye is all the talk of Accra high society. But when it becomes apparent that Katherine is infertile, Solomon's extended family accuses her of being a witch, hounding her until the relationship is so soured Solomon feels compelled to order Katherine out of the house they share. Alone on her last night there, Katherine is brutally murdered by an intruder wielding a machete.

When another resident of the Rosemary House care home is found dead in her chair one Saturday evening in December, no one is very surprised - not until the results of a routine post-mortem reveal something extraordinary. Sergeant DC Smith and his team have to tread carefully as they investigate what took place, and Smith himself has to confront some difficult memories. Others, meanwhile, seem intent on getting him to leave the force altogether.

When David Perry confides the sordid details of his bitter divorce to a sympathetic stranger, he never imagines the nightmare he would unleash. Now his socialite wife is dead, brutally murdered by a man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants…Veteran San Francisco homicide detective Jane Candiotti never allows her personal feelings to interfere with the job - until Jenna Perry is found strangled in the hills of Marin County.