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Peter James Books In Order

Roy Grace Books In Publication Order

  1. Dead Simple (2005)
  2. Looking Good Dead (2006)
  3. Not Dead Enough (2007)
  4. Dead Man’s Footsteps (2008)
  5. Dead Tomorrow (2009)
  6. Dead Like You (2010)
  7. Dead Man’s Grip (2011)
  8. Not Dead Yet (2012)
  9. Dead Man’s Time (2013)
  10. Want You Dead (2014)
  11. You Are Dead (2015)
  12. Love You Dead (2016)
  13. Need You Dead (2017)
  14. Dead If You Don’t (2018)
  15. Dead at First Sight (2019)
  16. Find Them Dead (2020)
  17. Left You Dead (2021)

Roy Grace Short Stories/Novellas Books In Publication Order

  1. Footloose (With: Val McDermid) (2019)
  2. Wish You Were Dead (2021)

Cold Hill Books In Publication Order

  1. The House on Cold Hill (2015)
  2. The Secret of Cold Hill (2019)

Max Flynn Books In Publication Order

  1. Dead Letter Drop (1981)
  2. Atom Bomb Angel (1983)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Billionaire (1983)
  2. Biggles The Storybook (1986)
  3. Possession (1988)
  4. Dreamer (1989)
  5. Sweet Heart (1990)
  6. Twilight (1991)
  7. Prophecy (1992)
  8. Host (1993)
  9. Alchemist (1996)
  10. Getting Wired! (1996)
  11. The Truth (1997)
  12. Denial (1998)
  13. Faith (2000)
  14. Perfect People (2011)
  15. Absolute Proof (2017)
  16. I Follow You (2020)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. A Twist of the Knife (2014)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Christmas is for the Kids (2011)
  2. In the Nick of Time (With: Ian Rankin) (2014)
  3. Footloose (With: Val McDermid) (2019)

Afraid of the Light Books In Publication Order

  1. Afraid of the Light (By:Alex North,Jo Furniss) (2020)
  2. Afraid Of The Christmas Lights (By:T E Kinsey,Harriet Tyce,Jo Furniss) (2020)
  3. Afraid of the Shadows (With: Trevor Wood,M.W. Craven,Katerina Diamond,T.M. Logan) (2021)

Inspector Rebus Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. A Good Hanging (By:Ian Rankin) (1992)
  2. Death is Not the End (By:Ian Rankin) (1998)
  3. A Good Hanging and Other Stories (By:Ian Rankin) (2003)
  4. In the Nick of Time (With: Ian Rankin) (2014)
  5. The Beat Goes On (By:Ian Rankin) (2014)
  6. Long Shadows (Play) (By:Ian Rankin) (2019)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. No Rest for the Dead (2011)
  2. The Killer Cookbook (2012)
  3. FaceOff (2014)
  4. MatchUp (2017)

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Peter James Books Overview

Dead Simple

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 enclosed in a coffin equipped only with a flashlight, a dirty magazine, a walkie talkie, and a tiny breathing tube. It’s all in good fun payback for the grief his buddies had suffered at the hands of his own penchant for tomfoolery that is, until his four buddies are killed in a drunk driving accident just moments after leaving Michael buried alive in his coffin. Detective Superintendent Grace himself dealing with the pain of losing a wife is brought on to the case when Ashley reports Michael missing. Suspicions are raised when Michael’s only friend not at the bachelor party refuses to cooperate and Ashley’s faithfulness not to mention her increasingly mysterious past are suddenly thrown into question. As Superintendent Grace soon discovers, one man’s disaster is another man’s fortune…
Dead Simple.

Looking Good Dead

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 are threatened with their lives if he goes to the police. But supported by his wife, Kellie, he bravely makes a statemenet to the murder enquiry team headed by Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a man with demons of his own to contend with. And from that moment, the killing of the Bryce family becomes a mere formality and a grisly attraction. Kellie and Tom’s deaths have already been posted on the internet; you can log on and see them on a website. They are Looking Good Dead.

Not Dead Enough

On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least, that’s the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace who is called in to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful young Brighton socialite, Katie Bishop. Soon, Grace starts coming to the conclusion that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible feat of being in two places at once. Has someone stolen his identity, or is he simply a very clever liar? As Grace digs deeper behind the facade of the Bishops’ outwardly respectable lives, it starts to become clear that all is not at all as it first seemed. And then he digs just a little too far, and suddenly the fragile stability of his own troubled, private world is facing destruction…
Praise for ‘Looking Good Dead’: ‘James is a master plotter…
this follow up to ‘Dead Simple’ cannot fail to thrill’ ‘Daily Mail’. ‘I couldn’t put it down…
even better than the first’ ‘Independent’.

Dead Man’s Footsteps

‘Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else’s perfume, and lemon scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now, too late to change her mind and get out, with the metal walls pressing in around her, they lunged sharply downwards. 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 never do well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime, to disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Five years later the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman’s body in a storm drain in Brighton, leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe, and into a desperate race against time to save the life of a woman being hunted down like an animal in the streets and alleys of Brighton. Acclaim for ‘Not Dead Enough’: ‘Another smashing thriller from the UK’s most respected crime writer’ ‘Daily Mirror’.

Dead Tomorrow

Lynn gripped the sides of the armchair, trying to put aside her own inner terror. ‘I can’t believe I’m thinking this, Ross. I’m not a violent person, even before Caitlin’s influence, I never even liked killing flies in my kitchen. Now I’m sitting here actually willing some stranger to die’. The body of a teenager dredged from the seabed off the coast of Sussex is found to be missing its vital organs. Soon two more young bodies are found. Caitlin Beckett, a fifteen year old in Brighton, will die if she does not receive an urgent liver transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down, Lynn, her mother, turns in panic to the internet and discovers a broker who can provide her with a black market organ but at a price. As Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies, he unearths the trail of a gang of child traffickers operating from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a race against time to save the life of a young street kid, while a desperate mother will stop at nothing to save her daughter’s life. ‘One of the most fiendishly clever crime fiction plotters’ ‘Daily Mail’.

Dead Like You

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is forever haunted by the unexplained disappearance of his wife, Sandy, nearly ten years ago. Ever since she went missing, he’s been consumed with finding out what happened to her. Finally, he may be moving on. He has fallen in love and is going to marry his girlfriend, Cleo, who is pregnant with their child. But his life is put on hold when, after a wild New Year s Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her hotel room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims shoes are taken by their attacker. Grace soon realizes that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. The perpetrator had been dubbed Shoe Man and was believed to have raped four women before murdering his fifth victim and vanishing. Could this be a copycat, or has Shoe Man resurfaced? When more women are assaulted, Grace becomes increasingly certain that they are dealing with the same man. By delving back into the past a time when Sandy was still in his life he may find the key to unlocking the current mystery. Soon Grace and his team find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to identify and save the life of the new sixth victim, as he struggles with a chapter in his life he thought he had put behind him at last.

Twilight

When strange sounds begin coming from his wife’s grave, a distraught widower petitions to have the body exhumed, and journalist Kate Hemingway is on hand to witness the horrific proceedings.

Alchemist

Monty Bannerman’s father is a leading genetic scientist who has just been seduced into joining what will shortly be the world’s biggest pharmaceuticals giant, despite some misgivings about their company ethics. He needs their money, they need his mind. But when Monty stumbles upon a fertility drug trial that is killing women and producing terribly deformed babies it looks like they have unwittingly sold themselves to the devil.

A Good Hanging (By:Ian Rankin)

Twelve remarkable, gritty stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it: not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It’s a city like any other, a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accidents, and long hidden jealousy, and a city in which criminal minds find it all too easy to fade into the shadows. As dedicated readers of the series well know, nobody is better equipped to delve into Edinburgh’s back alleys and smoky pubs than Rebus, and no one better able to illuminate his world than Ian Rankin.

Death is Not the End (By:Ian Rankin)

For readers unfamiliar with the blistering plots and language of Ian Rankin’s longer works, this special edition novella is the perfect opportunity to get to know Rankin and his unforgettable creation, Inspector John Rebus. For longtime Rebus fans, it is an opportunity to follow him as he explores a subplot from his most recent outing, Dead Souls. When his high school sweetheart calls him out of the blue, Rebus agrees to track down her missing son, who was last seen at a bar owned by some shady mob linked gangsters. His pursuit takes him through an Edinburgh beyond the tartan tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, a modern city boasting a variety of criminals and their victims. As Rebus contemplates the lurking immortality of his own city, Rankin offers readers page turning suspense and astonishing literary grace.

A Good Hanging and Other Stories (By:Ian Rankin)

Twelve remarkable, gritty stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it: not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It’s a city like any other, a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accidents, and long hidden jealousy, and a city in which criminal minds find it all too easy to fade into the shadows. As dedicated readers of the series well know, nobody is better equipped to delve into Edinburgh’s back alleys and smoky pubs than Rebus, and no one better able to illuminate his world than Ian Rankin.

No Rest for the Dead

More than twenty New York Times bestselling authors team up to create a first rate serial novel a collaboration that combines the skills of America’s greatest storytellers to produce a gripping, spellbinding mystery. Alexander McCall Smith. Sandra Brown. Faye Kellerman. J.A. Jance. Jeffery Deaver. Kathy Reichs. Lisa Scottoline. Jeff Lindsay. These are only a handful of the names that make up the all star lineup of authors behind No Rest for the Dead, a tale of vengeance, greed, and love that flows seamlessly, in the words of David Baldacci, as it pas*ses from one creator s mind to the next. When Christopher Thomas, a ruthless curator at San Francisco s McFall Art Museum, is murdered and his decaying body is found in an iron maiden in a Berlin museum, his wife, Rosemary, is the primary suspect, and she is tried, convicted, and executed. Ten years later, Jon Nunn, the detective who cracked the case, is convinced that the wrong person was put to death. In the years since the case was closed, he’s discovered a web of deceit and betrayal surrounding the Thomases that could implicate any number of people in the crime. Solving this case may be Nunn s last chance for redemption but the shadowy forces behind Christopher s death will stop at nothing to silence the past forever. In this innovative storytelling approach, each of these twenty six bestselling writers brings their distinctive voice to a chapter of the narrative, building the tension to a shocking, explosive finale. No Rest for the Dead is a thrilling accomplishment that only America s very best authors could achieve.

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