DEATH COMES KNOCKING

Research is a huge part of Peter's prep-work before writing a new novel: this non-fiction project is an exciting insider view on what it is really like to police Roy Grace's Brighton. Anyone who is interested in true crime will enjoy DEATH COMES KNOCKING – POLICING ROY GRACE'S BRIGHTON, and those who know and have enjoyed Peter's Roy Grace novels will see how real events, people and procedures have influenced some of his storylines.

Fans of Peter James and his bestselling Roy Grace crime novels know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of both Brighton and Hove's police force and the city's villains, and that they are set in a world every bit as gritty as the real thing. His friend Graham Bartlett was a long-serving high-ranking detective in the city once described as Britain's 'crime capital'. Together, in DEATH COMES KNOCKING, they have written a gripping account of the city's most challenging cases, taking the reader from crime scenes and incident rooms to the morgue, and introducing some of the real-life detectives who inspired Peter James's characters.

Whether it's the murder of a dodgy nightclub owner and his family in Sussex's worst non-terrorist mass murder or the race to find the abductor of a young girl; tracking down the antique trade's most notorious 'knocker boys' or nailing an audacious ring of forgers; hunting for a cold-blooded killer who executed a surfer or catching a pair of criminals who kidnapped a businessman, leaving him, severely beaten, to die on a hillside, the authors skilfully evoke the dangerous inside story of policing, the personal toll it takes and the dedication of those who risk their lives to keep the public safe.