Peter James

En la cuarta novela protagonizada por el inspector Roy Grace, Peter James nos lleva de Brighton a Nueva York, de Inglaterra a Australia, a la búsqueda de un estafador que tal vez sea un peligroso asesino...Cuando el estafador Ronnie Wilson ve como se desmoronan las torres gemelas en Nueva York, sus pensamientos no estan con los miles de victimas, ni con la sobrecogida ciudad escenario de los atentados terroristas. En lugar de eso, el se encuentra con la oportunidad de su vida: librarse de sus deudas, desaparecer y reinventarse a si mismo en otro pais.En Brighton, el protagonista de esta serie de novelas, Roy Grace investiga la aparicion del esqueleto de una mujer en las costas de Brighton, lo que no hace mas que despertar sus propios fantasmas: la desaparicion de su propia esposa nunca esclarecida.Cuando se descubre que el cadaver es el de la esposa del estafador Wilson, la investigacion se complica para Grace...

Novela de ficción en inglés

THEY WERE MARKED FOR DEATH. The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancee, 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 twenties, 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 over eighty years?

Roy Grace, creation of the 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 divorcee 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.

Le journaliste d investigation Ross Hunter a failli ne pas répondre á l appel qui allait changer sa vie, et l avenir de l humanité pour toujours. Au bout du fil, un certain Harry F. Cook lui annonce qu il a decouvert la preuve irrefutable de l existence de Dieu. Cependant, pour la reveler publiquement, il a besoin de la caution de Ross afin de ne pas ªtre decredibilise. Malgre ses doutes le journaliste accepte la mission, mais decouvre peu apres le corps sans vie du chercheur, assassine dans son appartement, ainsi que trois mysterieuses coordonnees geographiques. Decide a honorer la derniere volonte de Cook, Ross se lance alors dans la quªte de cette preuve ultime, au risque d ªtre elimine avant d atteindre son but.Car menacer les grandes religions n est pas sans danger,

Le journaliste d'investigation Ross Hunter a failli ne pas répondre à l'appel qui allait changer sa vie, et l'avenir de l'humanité pour toujours. Au bout du fil, un certain Harry F. C

Roy Grace, creation of the award-winning author Peter James, unearths a powerful criminal network in Find Them Dead.Ending his secondment to London's Met Police, Roy Grace gets a tip-off about a county lines drugs mastermind operating out of Brighton. On his first day back in his old job in Sussex, he is called to a seemingly senseless murder.Separately, Meg Magellan finally has her life back together, five years after the car crash that killed her husband and their son. Her daughter, Laura, now 18, is on her gap year travelling in South America with a friend, and Meg misses her badly. Laura is all she has in the world.In between jobs, Meg receives a summons for jury service. She's excited - it might be interesting and will help distract her from constantly worrying about Laura. But when she is selected for the trial of a major Brighton drugs overlord, everything changes.Gradually, Grace's investigation draws him increasingly into the sinister sphere of influence of the drug dealer on trial. A man utterly ruthless and evil, prepared to order the death of anyone it takes to enable him to walk free.

Le déménagement dans ce manoir charmant, en haut de la colline, devait être le point de départ pour une nouvelle vie. Après des années passées dans la banlieue de Brighton, Ollie Harcourt ne pouvait

Ein cleverer page-turner! The TimesSie haben nur einen Wunsch: Sie wollen ein gesundes Kind. Doch dann fordern sie das Schicksal heraus.Der vierjahrige Sohn von Naomi und John Klaesson ist tot. Er starb an einer seltenen Genkrankheit. Die letzte Hoffnung der verzweifelten Eltern ist Dr. Leo Dettore. Er soll eine Kapazitat auf dem Gebiet der Genforschung sein. Und ihnen zu einem gesunden Kind verhelfen. Einem Kind mit besonderen Fahigkeiten.Doch als Naomi schwanger wird, ist nichts mehr so, wie es einmal war. Und Leo Dettore ist verschwunden. Ein wahrer Alptraum beginnt.Dieser fesselnde Roman ist super-spooky und total spannend Closer MagazinePeter James ist ein meisterlicher Erzahler seine Fahigkeit, beim Leser ein Gefuhl fur echten Horror in einer realen Welt zu erzeugen, ist unubertroffen. The MirrorHier geht es um die Kostbarkeit des Lebens, die Zufalligkeit des Uberlebens und, letztlich, um Menschlichkeit. The Mirror

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 estr

This is the series everyone is reading. From the No. 1 chart-topper Peter James, comes the ninth novel in the multi-million copy bestselling Roy Grace series...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.

IF HE CAN'T HAVE HER, THEN NOBODY CAN . . .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 . . .

Cuatro cuerpos, un sospechoso, ninguna pista. El primer caso deldetective 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 dias 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 descubrira que la unica persona que conoce el paradero de Michael no tiene intencion de hablar... al menos de momento."Un magnifico relato de codicia, seduccion y traicion."Daily Telegraph

Un hecho cotidiano hace que una familia caiga en las redes de una peligrosa organización. Un nuevo caso investigado por Roy Grace.Cuando Tom Bryce encuentra un CD que alguien ha olvidado en el asiento contiguo del tren en el que viaja, hace lo que cualquier persona decente haria: lo recoge y, cuando llega a casa, intenta averiguar a quien pertenece para poder devolverselo. Sin embargo, su buena fe topara con el escalofriante contenido del disco: un estremecedor asesinato. A partir de ese momento, su vida y la de su familia comienzan a correr peligro; solo el peculiar detective Roy Grace, especialista en casos sin resolver y conocedor de tecnicas"poco ortodoxas"de adivinacion, parece capaz de ayudarles.

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 perfum, 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 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.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. 'One of the most fiendishly clever crime fiction plotters' - "Daily Mail".

Lorsqu'il se réveille six pieds sous terre dans un cercueil avec du whisky, une lampe de poche, une revue érotique et un sérieux mal de crâne, Michael Harrison pense à une mauvaise blague.Très vi