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.

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Comme une tombe
Peter James
531pages
19 heures de lecture
3,9(695)Évaluer
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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La mort leur va si bien
Peter James
4,0(462)Évaluer
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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Not Dead Enough
Peter James
640pages
23 heures de lecture
4,1(322)Évaluer
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.
4
Tu ne m'oublieras jamais
Peter James
608pages
22 heures de lecture
4,2(7162)Évaluer
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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Dead tomorrow
Peter James
661pages
24 heures de lecture
4,2(6294)Évaluer
Lynn gripped the armchair, battling her inner terror. "I can't believe I'm thinking this, Ross. I'm not a violent person; I never even liked killing flies. Now I'm willing a stranger to die." A teenager's body is found off the Sussex coast, missing vital organs. Soon, two more bodies are discovered. Caitlin Beckett, a fifteen-year-old in Brighton, urgently needs a liver transplant. When the health system fails her, Lynn, her mother, turns to the internet and finds a broker for a black-market organ—at a steep price. Desperate, Lynn scrambles to raise the money. As Caitlin's condition worsens, the broker offers hope with a perfect match. Meanwhile, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, buoyed by his promotion and his girlfriend Cleo, is haunted by this new case, more than any before. Following the clues from the bodies leads him to a gang of child traffickers from Eastern Europe. Grace and his team must race against time to save a young street kid, while Lynn is determined to do anything to save her daughter’s life.
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Dead Like You
Peter James
648pages
23 heures de lecture
4,0(332)Évaluer
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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Dead Man's Grip
Peter James
406pages
15 heures de lecture
4,0(325)Évaluer
"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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Not Dead Yet
Peter James
4,0(240)Évaluer
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 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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Dead Man's Time
Peter James
512pages
18 heures de lecture
4,4(87)Évaluer
In Dead Man's Time , the latest from international bestselling author Peter James, Roy Grace finds himself up against that most dangerous of all adversaries—a man with fury in his heart who has nothing to lose. New York, 1922. Five-year-old Gavin Daly and his seven-year-old sister, Aileen, are boarding the SS Mauretania to Dublin—and safety. Their mother has been shot and their Irish mobster father abducted. Suddenly, a messenger hands Gavin a piece of paper on which are written four names and eleven numbers, a cryptic message that will haunt him all his life, and his father's pocket watch. As the ship sails, Gavin watches Manhattan fade into the dusk and makes a promise, that one day he will return and find his father. Brighton, 2012. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates a savage burglary in Brighton, in which an old lady is murdered and £10m of antiques have been taken, including a rare vintage watch. To Grace's surprise, the antiques are unimportant to her family—it is the watch they want back. As his investigation probes deeper, he realizes he has kicked over a hornets nest of new and ancient hatreds. At its heart is one man, Gavin Daly, the dead woman's ninety-five-year-old brother. He has a score to settle and a promise to keep—both of which lead to a murderous trail linking the antiques world of Brighton, the crime fraternity of Spain's Marbella, and New York. Roy Grace, in a race against the clock to stop another killing, has met his most dangerous adversary yet.
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Dead Man´s Time
James Peterson
409pages
15 heures de lecture
3,9(90)Évaluer
Some will wait a lifetime to take their revenge...A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant dying. And millions of pounds' worth of valuables have been taken. But, as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, heading the enquiry, rapidly learns, there is one priceless item of sentimental value that the old woman's powerful family cherish above all else. And they are fully prepared to take the law into their own hands, and will do anything, absolutely anything, to get it back. Within days, Grace is racing against the clock, following a murderous trail that leads him from the shady antiques world of Brighton, across Europe, and all the way back to the New York waterfront gang struggles of 1922, chasing a killer driven by the force of one man's greed and another man's fury.
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Want You Dead
Peter James
400pages
14 heures de lecture
4,1(4382)Évaluer
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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You are dead
Peter James
512pages
18 heures de lecture
4,2(420)Évaluer
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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Love You Dead
Peter James
400pages
14 heures de lecture
4,3(291)Évaluer
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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La mort de Lorna Belling
Peter James
4,2(294)Évaluer
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Dead If You Don't
Peter James
400pages
14 heures de lecture
4,2(272)Évaluer
Shortly after Kipp Brown and his teenage son, Mungo, arrive at the stadium for their team's biggest-ever football game, Mungo disappears. A short while later Kipp receives a text with a ransom demand and a warning not to go to the police if he and his wife want to see their son alive again. But as a massive, covert manhunt for the boy and his kidnappers begins, D.S. Roy Grace starts to realize that not all is what it seems.
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Dead at First Sight
Peter James
400pages
14 heures de lecture
4,0(3466)Évaluer
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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Find Them Dead
Peter James
400pages
14 heures de lecture
3,9(245)Évaluer
A Brighton gangster is on trial for conspiracy to murder, following the death of a rival crime family boss. As the jury file into Lewes Crown Court, 12 anonymous people selected randomly from 50, there is one person sitting in the public gallery observing them with keen interest, and secretly filming them. Later, a group of the accused's henchmen sit around a table with the full personal details of each of the 12 jurors in front of them. They need to influence two of them--a jury can convict if directed on a 10-2 majority verdict but no less. But which two? When Roy Grace is called in to investigate a murder that has links to the accused and the trial, and the suspicion that an attempt has been made to intimidate jurors, he finds the reach and power of the accused's tentacles go higher than he had ever imagined.
FaceOff: Doppeltes Spiel
David Baldacci
3,5(2)Évaluer
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.
Face Off
David Baldacci
384pages
14 heures de lecture
3,8(63)Évaluer
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
A Twist of the Knife
Peter James
3,8(88)Évaluer
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