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Roy Grace Series

This gripping series follows a dedicated detective as he tackles perplexing murder cases in the scenic, yet often sinister, county of Sussex, England. Each installment plunges readers into intricate investigations, uncovering hidden secrets and complex human dramas. The protagonist's relentless pursuit of justice and his methodical approach to solving seemingly impossible crimes form the core of this compelling crime fiction. It's a must-read for fans of atmospheric and character-driven police procedurals.

Dead Like You
Roy Grace Novel: Dead Tomorrow
Dead man´s footsteps
Not Dead Enough
Looking Good Dead
Dead Simple

Recommended Reading Order

  1. Dead Simple

    • 480 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. A few hours later Michael Harrison has disappeared and his friends are dead. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife - is contacted by Michael's beautiful, distraught fiancâee, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrison's whereabouts is saying nothing. But then he has a lot more to gain than anyone realizes, For one man's disaster is another man's fortune... Dead Simple is the stunning first novel in the number one bestselling Roy Grace series from award-winning author, Peter James.

    Dead Simple1
    3.9

  2. Looking Good Dead

    • 544 pages
    • 20 hours of reading

    Looking Good Dead is the second 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.

    Looking Good Dead2
    4.0

  3. Not Dead Enough

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is investigating the bizarre slaying of Katie Bishop, a member of Brighton, social elite. Her husband Brian appears to be in the clear--he was in another town at the time, sound asleep. But Grace begins to suspect the presence of a doppelganger: is someone else--almost identical to Bishop--involved in the crime?

    Not Dead Enough3
    4.1

  4. Dead man´s footsteps

    • 592 pages
    • 21 hours of reading

    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 lifeline: to shed his debts, disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Six 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.

    Dead man´s footsteps4
    4.2

  5. Roy Grace Novel: Dead Tomorrow

    • 536 pages
    • 19 hours of reading

    *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...

    Roy Grace Novel: Dead Tomorrow5
    4.2

  6. Dead Like You

    • 648 pages
    • 23 hours of reading

    The brutal rapes of two women in Brighton bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes from 1997. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is forced to delve into his shattered past to find the key to unlocking the current mystery

    Dead Like You6
    4.0

  7. Dead Man's Grip

    • 544 pages
    • 20 hours of reading

    "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"--Provided by publisher.

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    4.0

  8. Not Dead Yet

    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 get her an Oscar nomination...For the City of Brighton and Hove, the publicity value of a major Hollywood movie being filmed on location, about the city's greatest love story - between King George 1Vth and Maria Fitzherbert - is incalculable. For Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of Sussex CID, it is a nightmare unfolding in front of his eyes. An obsessed stalker is after Gaia. One attempt on her life is made days before she leaves her Bel Air home to fly to Brighton. Now, he has been warned, the stalker may be at large in his city, waiting, watching, planning.

    Not Dead Yet8
    4.0

  9. Dead Man's Time

    • 512 pages
    • 18 hours of reading

    In the latest thriller from bestselling author Peter James, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace faces a formidable foe—an enraged man with everything to lose. The story begins in New York, 1922, where five-year-old Gavin Daly and his sister, Aileen, are escaping to Dublin after their mother is murdered and their father, an Irish mobster, is abducted. Just before boarding the SS Mauretania, Gavin receives a mysterious note with four names and eleven numbers, along with his father's pocket watch. As the ship departs, he vows to return and find his father one day. Fast forward to Brighton, 2012, where Grace investigates a brutal burglary that leaves an elderly woman dead and £10 million worth of antiques stolen, including a rare vintage watch. Surprisingly, the family is less concerned about the antiques than recovering the watch. As Grace delves deeper into the case, he uncovers a web of old and new animosities, all leading back to Gavin Daly, now a ninety-five-year-old man with a vendetta and a promise to fulfill. This quest intertwines the antique world of Brighton with the crime underbelly of Marbella, Spain, and New York, putting Grace in a race against time to prevent further bloodshed against his most dangerous adversary yet.

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    4.0

  10. Want You Dead

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    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...

    Want You Dead10
    4.1

  11. You Are Dead

    • 512 pages
    • 18 hours of reading

    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?

    You Are Dead11
    4.2

  12. Love You Dead

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    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.

    Love You Dead12
    4.3

  13. Need You Dead

    The thirteenth Detective Superintendent Roy Grace novel from the highly acclaimed number one bestselling author, Peter James.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.

    Need You Dead13
    4.2

  14. Dead If You Don't

    • 512 pages
    • 18 hours of reading

    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.

    Dead If You Don't14
    4.2

  15. Dead at First Sight

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    The fifteenth Detective Superintendent Roy Grace novel from the highly acclaimed number one bestselling author, Peter James.

    Dead at First Sight15
    4.0

  16. Find Them Dead

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    The sixteenth Detective Superintendent Roy Grace novel from the highly acclaimed number one bestselling author, Peter James.

    Find Them Dead16
    3.9

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