Peter James’ fifteenth Detective Superintendent Roy Grace novel, DEAD AT FIRST SIGHT has shot straight to the Number 1 spot in the Sunday Times paperback bestseller chart with record sales after only three days on sale, replicating the novel’s chart-topping success in hardback earlier this year. DEAD AT FIRST SIGHT’s paperback success gives James his fifteenth Number 1 on the British charts.
DEAD AT FIRST SIGHT is an eye-opening page-turner about the growing crime of romance fraud. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace exposes the dark side of the internet when he is called to investigate the suspected suicide of a woman that is clearly not what it seems. A handsome Brighton motivational speaker soon comes forward: he’s discovered his identity is being used to scam 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 realises he is looking at the tip of an iceberg of a global empire built on clever, cruel internet scams and the murder of anyone who threatens to expose them.
Peter James’ Roy Grace series has been translated into thirty-seven languages with worldwide sales of over twenty million copies. In Germany, NEED YOU DEAD (DU STIRBST FÜR MICH), just published by Fischer, is going into the Der Spiegel paperback bestseller lists at Number 19.
Earlier this month THE SECRET OF COLD HILL, the ghostly follow-up to THE HOUSE ON COLD HILL, was at Number 6 in the UK hardback charts and the paperback of ABSOLUTE PROOF was a Summer blockbuster on the Richard and Judy list. Next year readers can look forward to the sixteenth Roy Grace in the Summer and an exciting Autumn standalone, both from Pan Macmillan. In the US Canelo have also recently released ABSOLUTE PROOF, PERFECT PEOPLE, THE HOUSE ON COLD HILL and THE SECRET OF COLD HILL in ebook.
Praise for Peter James:
‘Sinister and riveting… Peter James is one of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world.’ — Lee Child
‘Peter James, Britain’s closest equivalent to Stephen King’ — Sunday Times
'Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business.' — Karin Slaughter
‘In my thirty-four years of policing, never have I come across a writer who so accurately depicts “The Job “’ —Detective Investigator Pat Lanigan, Office of the District Attorney, NYPD
About the Author:
Peter James is an international bestselling crime and thriller writer. In 2015 WHSmith customers voted him the Greatest Crime Author of All Time and in 2016 he was awarded the coveted CWA Diamond Dagger, a lifetime achievement award for sustained excellence. In 2018 he received a Specsavers Honorary Platinum Bestseller Award.
Successful nationwide tours of the stage plays of THE PERFECT MURDER (2014), DEAD SIMPLE (2015), NOT DEAD ENOUGH (2017) and THE HOUSE ON COLD HILL (2019) have played to packed theatres in dozens of British cities, and garnered magnificent reviews.
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