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Roy Grace Séries

Cette série captivante suit un détective dévoué alors qu'il résout des affaires de meurtre déconcertantes dans le comté pittoresque, mais souvent sinistre, du Sussex, en Angleterre. Chaque épisode plonge les lecteurs dans des enquêtes complexes, dévoilant des secrets cachés et des drames humains complexes. La poursuite incessante de la justice par le protagoniste et son approche méthodique pour résoudre des crimes apparemment impossibles forment le cœur de cette fiction policière convaincante. C'est une lecture incontournable pour les amateurs de polars atmosphériques et centrés sur les personnages.

Dead Like You
Dead Tomorrow
Tu ne m'oublieras jamais
Not Dead Enough
La mort leur va si bien
Comme une tombe

Ordre de lecture recommandé

  1. Comme une tombe

    • 531pages
    • 19 heures de lecture

    Comme une tombe s'ouvre sur un enterrement de vie de garçon. Celui de Michael Harrison, jeune golden boy qui, avec Mark Warren, a monté une société immobilière fructueuse. Michael doit se marier trois jours plus tard. Pour fêter dignement l'événement et se venger de ce farceur invétéré, quatre de ses amis lui ont préparé une nuit très spéciale : pendant qu'ils font la tournée des pubs, ils l'enferment dans un cercueil, au milieu de nulle part, où il doit attendre plusieurs heures. Malheureusement, la blague tourne mal : les quatre amis meurent dans un accident de voiture et Michael se retrouve piégé dans le cercueil. Roy Grace, commissaire divisionnaire, un homme hanté par la disparition de sa femme, est contacté par la superbe fiancée de Michael, Ashley Harper, folle d'angoisse. Il se lance alors dans une course contre la montre, pour essayer par tous les moyens de retrouver Michael...

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  2. La mort leur va si bien

    S'il avait eu le moindre soupçon de l'effet dévastateur qu'un CD, trouvé sur la banquette d'un train de banlieue allait avoir sur sa vie, Tom Bryce l'aurait sans doute laissé là où il était...

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  3. Not Dead Enough

    • 640pages
    • 23 heures de lecture

    Not Dead Enough is the third book by number one bestselling crime and thriller writer Peter James, part of the multi-million-copy series featuring the definitive Brighton detective, Roy Grace.

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  4. Tu ne m'oublieras jamais

    • 608pages
    • 22 heures de lecture

    11 septembre 2001, site du World Trade Center. En route pour un rendez-vous d'affaires crucial, un homme assiste, désemparé, à l'effondrement des tours jumelles. Pris en plein chaos, acculé par les dettes, il décide de se faire passer pour mort. Octobre 2007. Un squelette est retrouvé dans un collecteur d'eaux pluviales de Brighton. A mesure que l'identification avance, l'horreur étreint le commissaire Roy Grace : la description correspond en tous points à celle de son ex-compagne disparue 9 ans plus tôt... Au même moment, dans la même commune, une jeune femme traquée monte dans l'ascenseur de son nouveau logement. Le piège se referme et la cabine chute de plusieurs étages, avant de se stabiliser dans un équilibre fragile. Un bouton d'appel d'urgence hors service. Pas de réseau. Aucun voisin. Et soudain, un texto : Je sais où tu es… Trois histoires a priori sans lien...

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    4,2

  6. Dead Like You

    • 648pages
    • 23 heures de lecture

    The brutal rapes of two women in Brighton bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes from 1997. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is forced to delve into his shattered past to find the key to unlocking the current mystery

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  7. Dead Man's Grip

    • 406pages
    • 15 heures de lecture

    "Roy Grace sets his sights on America in this next crime novel by the #1 international bestselling author" Carly Chase is still traumatized ten days after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered. Now Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex Police force issues a stark and urgent warning to Carly: She could be next. The student had deadly connections. Connections that stretch across the Atlantic to America and an organized crime group. Someone has sworn revenge and won't rest until the final person involved in that fateful accident is dead. The police advise Carly her only option is to go into hiding and change her identity. The terrified woman disagrees. She knows these people have ways of hunting you down anywhere. If the police are unable to stop them, she has to find a way to do it herself. But already the killer is one step ahead of her, watching, waiting, and ready.

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  8. Not Dead Yet

    Deadly obsession is only the beginning... For LA producer Larry Brooker, this is the movie that could bring the fortune that has so long eluded him... For rock superstar, Gaia, desperate to be taken seriously as an actor, this is the role that could get her an Oscar nomination... For the City of Brighton and Hove, the publicity value of a major Hollywood movie being filmed on location, about the city's greatest love story - between King George IVth and Maria Fitzherbert - is incalculable. For Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of Sussex CID, it is a nightmare unfolding in front of his eyes. An obsessed stalker is after Gaia. One attempt on her life is made days before she leaves her Bel Air home to fly to Brighton. Now, he has been warned, the stalker may be at large in his city, waiting, watching, planning.

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  9. Que sonne l'heure

    • 552pages
    • 20 heures de lecture

    In the latest thriller from international bestselling author Peter James, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace faces a formidable opponent—a man fueled by rage and desperation. The story begins in New York, 1922, where five-year-old Gavin Daly and his sister, Aileen, are escaping to Dublin after their mother is murdered and their mobster father is kidnapped. A mysterious messenger gives Gavin a note with four names and eleven numbers, along with his father's pocket watch, setting him on a lifelong quest to find his father. Fast forward to Brighton in 2012, where Grace is investigating a brutal burglary that results in the murder of an elderly woman and the theft of £10 million worth of antiques, including a rare watch. Surprisingly, the family is less concerned about the antiques than recovering the watch. As Grace delves deeper, he uncovers a web of old and new animosities, all linked to Gavin Daly, the deceased woman's ninety-five-year-old brother. With a vendetta to fulfill and a promise to keep, Gavin's quest intertwines with the dark underbelly of Brighton's antiques scene, the criminal world of Marbella, and the shadows of New York. Grace must race against time to prevent further bloodshed, confronting his most dangerous adversary yet.

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  10. Want You Dead

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    Virtual romance becomes a terrifying obsession in Want You Dead... Single girl, 29, smouldering redhead, love life that's crashed and burned. Seeks new flame to rekindle her fire. Fun, friendship and -- who knows -- maybe more? When Red Westwood meets handsome, charming and rich Bryce Laurent through an online dating agency, there is an instant attraction. But as their love blossoms, the truth about his past, and his dark side, begins to emerge. Everything he has told Red about himself turns out to be a tissue of lies, and her infatuation with him gradually turns to terror. Within a year, and under police protection, she evicts him from her flat and her life. But Red's nightmare is only just beginning. For Bryce is obsessed with her, and he intends to destroy everything and everyone she has ever known and loved - and then her too...

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  11. You are dead

    • 512pages
    • 18 heures de lecture

    You are Dead is the 11th thrilling crime novel in Peter James' Roy Grace series. They were marked for death. The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fianc�e, 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 20s, 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 more than 80 years?

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  12. Love You Dead

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two dreams in life - to be beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the second. Her philosophy on money is simple: you can either earn it or marry it. Marrying is easy, it's getting rid of the husband afterwards that's harder, that takes real skill. But hey, practice makes perfect ...Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is feeling the pressure from his superiors, his previous case is still giving him sleepless nights, there have been major developments with his missing wife Sandy, and an old adversary is back. But worse than all of this, he now believes a Black Widow is operating in his city. One with a venomous mind ...and venomous skills. Soon Grace comes to the frightening realization that he may have underestimated just how dangerous this lady is. Love You Dead is the gripping twelfth book in Peter James' Roy Grace series.

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  14. Dead If You Don't

    The fourteenth novel in the highly acclaimed Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series, from international bestselling author Peter James.A parent's worst nightmare is Grace's deadliest case.Shortly after Kipp Brown, a seemingly wealthy businessman, and his teenage son, Mungo, arrive at the Amex stadium for their team's biggest-ever football game, Mungo disappears. Assuming that Mungo has gone to the loo before kick-off, Kipp calmly takes his seat. But when there's an emergency security announcement telling everyone to exvacute the stadium, Kipp begins desperately searching for his son.In the panic that follows, Kipp receives a text with a ransom demand and a terrifying warning: We have your son. If you wish to see him alive again you will not contact the police and you will follow our instructions very carefully.But as a massive, covert manhunt for the boy and his kidnappers begins, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace realizes that nothing is what it seems.

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  15. Dead at First Sight

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, exposes the dark side of the internet in Dead at First Sight.You don't know me, but I thought I knew you . . . A man waits at a London airport for Ingrid Ostermann, the love of his life, to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired NYPD cop waits in a bar in Florida's Key West for his first date with the lady who is, without question, his soulmate. The two men are about to discover they've been scammed out of almost every penny they have in the world - and that neither women exist. Meanwhile, a wealthy divorcée plunges, in suspicious circumstances, from an apartment block in Munich. In the same week, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to investigate the suicide of a woman in Brighton, that is clearly not what it seems. As his investigations continue, a handsome Brighton motivational speaker comes forward. He's discovered his identity is being used to scam eleven different 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 realizes he is looking at the tip of an iceberg. A global empire built on clever, cruel internet scams and the murder of anyone who threatens to expose them.

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  16. Find Them Dead

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    The sixteenth Detective Superintendent Roy Grace novel from the highly acclaimed number one bestselling author, Peter James.

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    Mit seinen Romanen begeistert David Baldacci ein Millionenpublikum. Auch diese Anthologie ist ein Buch der Superlative. als Herausgeber versammelt Baldacci die Crème de la Crème der weltbesten Spannungsautoren zu einem nie dagewesenen Wettstreit: Jeweils zwei große Autoren schreiben zusammen eine Kriminalgeschichte, in der ihre bekannten Ermittlerfiguren aufeinandertreffen. So etwa führt ein Mordgeständnis Ian Rankins John Rebus in den englischen Süden zu Peter James’ Roy Grace, Lee Childs Jack Reacher trifft in einer Bostoner Bar auf Joseph Finders Nick Heller, und Dennis Lehanes Patrick Kenzie bringt ein alter Fall ins pulsierende Los Angeles zu Michael Connellys Harry Bosch.

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  • Face Off

    • 384pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    In this unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world's favourite crime writers bring you original, co-written short stories featuring their much-loved series characters. FACE OFF includes the first meeting of Ian Rankin's Rebus and Peter James' Roy Grace; a case for Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie and Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, as well as a page-turning mystery starring Lee Child's Jack Reacher and Joseph Finder's Nick Heller. Edited by international bestseller David Baldacci, this exclusive page-turning collection is one of a kind. Read on to discover the full list of author and character pairings: Lee Child's Jack Reacher + Joseph Finder's Nick Heller Ian Rankin's John Rebus + Peter James' Roy Grace Michael Connelly's Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch + Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme + John Sanford's Lucas Davenport Linwood Barclay's Glen Garber + Raymond Khoury's Sean Reilly Linda Fairstein's Alexandra Cooper + Steve Martini's Paul Madriani Steve Berry's Cotton Malone + James Rollins' Gray Pierce Lisa Gardner's D.D. Warren + MJ Rose's Malachai Samuels T. Jefferson Parker's Joe Trona and John Lescroart's Wyatt Hunt Heather Graham's Michael Quinn + F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child's Aloysius Pendergast + R.L. Stine's Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy

    Face Off
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  • A Twist of the Knife

    A Twist of the Knife is Peter James's gripping first full-length collection of short stories now containing the novellas The Perfect Murder, Footloose written with Val McDermid and In The Nick of Time written with Ian Rankin. With each twist of the knife, a chilling new journey begins . . . From a woman intent on bizarre revenge to a restaurant critic with a morbid fear of the number thirteen, and from a man arranging a life-changing assignation to a couple heading for a disaster-filled vacation . . . In multimillion-copy bestselling author Peter James's collection of short stories we first come to meet Brighton's finest detective, Roy Grace, in his first case as a young constable and read the tale that went on to inspire James's hugely successful novel, Dead Simple. Each tale carries a twist that will haunt readers for days after they turn the final page . . . Combining every twisted tale from the eBook bestsellers Short Shockers: Collection One and Short Shockers: Collection Two, A Twist of the Knife shows Peter James as the undisputed grand master of storytellers with this sometimes funny, often haunting, but always shocking collection. 'Peter will send chills up your spine and make you jump at all those bumps in the night. Easily digestible and each one as fantastically goose bump-inducing as the last . . . Brilliant stuff' - Heat

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