You are Dead
Peter James
Macmillan - RRP $34.99, Trade Paperback
THEY WERE MARKED FOR DEATH. The last words Nick
Walton hears from his fiancée, 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?
About the author
Peter James is one of my all-time most favourite authors in the crime fiction genre. He was
educated at Charterhouse, then at film school. He lived in North America for a
number of years, working as a screenwriter and film producer before returning
to England. His novels, including the Sunday
Times number one bestselling Roy Grace series, have been translated into
thirty-six languages, with worldwide sales of sixteen million copies. Three
books have been filmed.
All his novels reflect his deep interest in the world
of the police, with whom he does in-depth research, as well as his fascination
with science, medicine and the paranormal. He has also produced numerous films,
including The Merchant of Venice,
starring Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes. He divides his time
between his homes in Notting Hill, London, and near Brighton in Sussex.
He was a guest several years ago at the Auckland Writers Festival.
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