Love You Dead

''One of the best British crime writers'' â" Lee Child
A shocking reveal threatens to unravel Detective Superintendent Roy Graceâs happy new life . . .

Grace is newly married, having moved to a country cottage with Cleo and their baby son. But his first, long-missing wife, now found, has left Grace a surprise greater than he could have imagined.

Yet the police need Grace at work: an escaped murderer who left a bullet in him is back and a Black Widow is leaving an international trail of corpses after â" in every sense â" bleeding them dry. Now, sheâs come to Brighton for her next rich target . . .

Love You Dead is a race-against-time instalment of the award-winning Grace series by Peter James, now a major ITV show starting John Simm. Don''t miss the latest pulse-pounding instalment, One Of Us Is Dead.

*****

23 million books sold.

Creator of Her Majesty Queen Camillaâs favourite fictional detective.

''Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business'' â" Karin Slaughter, author of the Will Trent series

''Peter James is one of the best British crime writers and therefore one of the best in the world'' â" Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series

''One of the worldâs most popular detective series'' â" The Guardian

''An easy 5* book'' â" Reader review

''Excellent as always!'' â" Reader review

''A brilliant addition to this excellent series'' â" Reader review

_{^{*They Thought I was Dead was an instant no.1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 13/05/2024}}