GRaham Bartlett
Agent: Isobel Dixon
Assistant: Sian Ellis-Martin
Please note that Graham is represented for fiction by David H Headley of D H H Literary Agency.
Biography: Graham Bartlett is the author of the Sunday Times Top Ten Best Seller DEATH COMES KNOCKING: Policing Roy Grace’s Brighton which he wrote with internationally acclaimed crime writer Peter James. He is also a police procedural advisor to best selling crime fiction writers and TV drama makers.
Graham was a police officer for thirty years working through the ranks at Brighton and Hove to become the city's Police Commander. En route he investigated numerous murders, rapes and other serious crimes, became a homicide senior investigating officer as well as commanding countless firearms and public order operations. He now balances his writing and advising with being a leadership and safeguarding consultant.
BABES IN THE WOOD
Non-Fiction, 352 pages
Pan Macmillan, February 2020
On 9 October 1986, nine-year-olds Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway went out to play on their Brighton estate. They would never return home; their bodies discovered the next day concealed in a local park. This devastating crime rocked the country.
With unique access to the officers charged with catching the killer, former senior detective Graham Bartlett and bestselling author Peter James tell the compelling inside story of the investigation as the net tightens around local man Russell Bishop. The trial that follows is one of the most infamous in the history of Brighton policing – a shock result sees Bishop walk free.
Three years later, Graham is working in Brighton CID when a seven-year-old girl is abducted and left to die. She survives… and Bishop’s name comes up as a suspect. Is history repeating itself? Can the police put him away this time, and will he ever be made to answer for his past horrendous crimes? Both gripping police procedural and an insight into the motivations of a truly evil man, BABES IN THE WOOD by Graham Bartlett with Peter James is a fascinating account of what became a thirty-two year fight for justice.
DEATH COMES KNOCKING: Policing Roy Grace's Brighton
Non-fiction, 320 pages
Pan Macmillan, 2016
Peter James' bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels is made all the more compelling by his in-depth research into the work of Brighton and Hove police, and he sets them in a world every bit as gritty as the real thing. Now, he and Graham Bartlett, a long-serving detective and Commander of the city for four years, have written a gripping account of Brighton’s most challenging modern cases, many of which Bartlett helped solve.