Peter James

Una obsesión mortal solo es el principio... Para el productor de Los Ángeles Larry Brooker, esta es la película que podría traerle la suerte que durante tanto tiempo le ha estado esquivando.Para la estrella mundial, Gaia, desesperada por que la tomen en serio como actriz, este es el papel que podria darle una nominacion a los Oscars.Para la ciudad de Brighton, los ingresos y la publicidad que puede llegar a traer una superproduccion de Hollywood sobre la mayor historia de amor la del rey Jorge IV y Maria Fitzherbert de la que la ciudad fue escenario, son incalculables.Pero para el detective Roy Grace todo esto es una pesadilla hecha realidad. Un acosador obsesionado por Gaia anda suelto, incluso parece que ha viajado desde California a Brighton y ahi esta, esperando, vigilando, acechando...---Los amantes de la novela negra que todavia no hayan descubierto a Peter James deberian rectificar esta situacion inmediatamente - Birmingham Evening Mail Uno de los creadores de novela criminal mas endemoniadamente inteligentes que existen. - Daily Mail James es cada vez mejor y se mereces sin lugar a dudas todos los exitos que esta teniendo con esta serie de primera. - Independent on Sunday La segunda novela de la serie ambientada en Brighton confirma el talento de Peter James para crear una trama de gran calidad y un suspense que atrapa desde el primer momento - The Guardian Un magnifico relato de codicia, seduccion y traicion. - Daily Telegraph La mejor novela de suspense de Peter James. Apasionante, angustiosa. Un complejo rompecabezas. - The Times

Ein cleverer page-turner! The TimesSie haben nur einen Wunsch: Sie wollen ein gesundes Kind. Doch dann fordern sie das Schicksal heraus.Der vierjahrige Sohn von Naomi und John Klaesson ist tot. Er starb an einer seltenen Genkrankheit. Die letzte Hoffnung der verzweifelten Eltern ist Dr. Leo Dettore. Er soll eine Kapazitat auf dem Gebiet der Genforschung sein. Und ihnen zu einem gesunden Kind verhelfen. Einem Kind mit besonderen Fahigkeiten.Doch als Naomi schwanger wird, ist nichts mehr so, wie es einmal war. Und Leo Dettore ist verschwunden. Ein wahrer Alptraum beginnt.Dieser fesselnde Roman ist super-spooky und total spannend Closer MagazinePeter James ist ein meisterlicher Erzahler seine Fahigkeit, beim Leser ein Gefuhl fur echten Horror in einer realen Welt zu erzeugen, ist unubertroffen. The MirrorHier geht es um die Kostbarkeit des Lebens, die Zufalligkeit des Uberlebens und, letztlich, um Menschlichkeit. The Mirror

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 about 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 is, he now believes, a Black Widow is operating in his city. One with a venomous mind ...and venomous skills. And he comes to the frightening realization he may have underestimated just how dangerous this lady is ...Love You Dead is the gripping twelfth book in Peter James' Roy Grace serie

Young children just love things that go, and here is a book they will spend hours pushing along the floor as well as reading! When you open the book to read, the clever wheel mechanism at the top of the page lets you choose the right driver for the vehicle on each spread. Then close the book and push it along on its four moving wheels just like a toy!

All they wanted was a healthy child...What they got was the perfect nightmare. I Can Eradicate All Diseases...John and Naomi Klaesson are devastated after the death of their child from a rare genetic disorder. More than anything they want another, but the chances of their next child being born with the same defect are high. I Can Give You the Child You Have Always Wanted...Then they hear about Doctor Leo Dettore. He has methods that can spare them the heartache of ever losing another child to any disease, and so begins their journey. I Can Make Perfect People...They should have known something was wrong when they saw the list. Choose the eye colour, hair, great sporting ability. They can design their child. Now it's too late to turn back. Naomi is pregnant, and already something is wrong...

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.

Carly Chase está todavía traumatizada por el accidente de tráfico que tuvo hace unos diez días y en el que resultó muerto un estudiante de la universidad de Brighton. Es entonces cuando recibe una noticia que pondra del reves toda su existencia: los conductores de los otros vehiculos involucrados en el accidente han sido encontrados torturados y asesinados. Roy Grace de la policia de Sussex advierte a Carly de la seriedad del peligro en el que se encuentra, porque ella podria ser la siguiente. La mujer, aterrorizada, no sigue el consejo de la policia de esconder su identidad y ponerse a salvo y decide que si nadie puede ayudarla, es ella misma la que tiene que protegerse. Lo que desconoce, es que el asesino se ha anticipado y la observa, espera y se prepara?

Vergiss nie, dass ich dir ganz nah bin Der sechste Fall für Detective Superintendent Roy Grace Das Metropol Hotel in Brighton: Nach einem ausgelassenen Silvesterfest wird eine junge Frau brutal vergewaltigt, als sie auf ihr Zimmer geht. Eine Woche später wird eine andere Frau angegriffen. Der Täter stiehlt beiden Opfern die teuren Designer-Schuhe. Das erinnert Roy Grace sehr an einen nie gelösten Fall aus dem Jahr 1997, als der, den sie damals den »Schuh-Dieb« nannten, fünf Frauen vergewaltigte und eine sechste tötete. Danach verschwand er spurlos. Ist der »Schuh-Dieb« wieder da? In seinem sechsten Fall muss Detective Superintendent Roy Grace weit in die Vergangenheit gehen, um eine neuerliche Serie von Vergewaltigungen aufzuklären.

Una obsesión mortal solo es el principio…Para el productor de Los Angeles Larry Brooker, esta es la película que podría traerle la suerte que durante tanto tiempo le ha estado esquivando.Para la estr

This is the series everyone is reading. From the No. 1 chart-topper Peter James, comes the ninth novel in the multi-million copy bestselling Roy Grace series...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.

Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else's perfum, and lemon-scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now, too late to change her mind and get out, with the metal walls pressing in around her, they lunged sharply downwards. Abby was about to realize she had just made the worst mistake of her life ...Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton businessman and ne'er-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime, to shed his debts, disappear and reinvent himself in another country.Six years later, the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman's body in a storm drain in Brighton, leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe, and into a desperate race against time to save the life of a woman being hunted down like an animal in the streets and alleys of Brighton. 'One of the most fiendishly clever crime fiction plotters' - "Daily Mail".

Katie Bishop aparece asesinada de un modo brutal en su lujosa casa de Brighton. Su marido, Brian, está en Londres por asuntos profesionales cuando se produce el crimen; sin embargo, y a pesar de una coartada aparentemente solida, todo lleva a el como unico sospechoso. Poco despues, otro terrible asesinato golpea su entorno, y de nuevo parece ser el culpable. Pero ¿es posible que un hombre este en dos sitios a la vez? Al frente de la investigacion se coloca el comisario Roy Grace, cuyo instinto le dira que algo en la historia de los Bishop no encaja. Todas las pruebas señalan que Brian es el asesino, pero los metodos de Grace llegan mas alla de las apariencias. Por otra parte, la investigacion se ve alterada cuando el comisario recibe una llamada desde Munich. En ella le informan de que acaban de ver a su mujer -desaparecida en extrañas circunstancias hace diez años- paseando por esa ciudad alemana. Entre dos aguas, Roy Grace tendra que decidir si aparcar sus sentimientos y centrarse en el caso de Katie Bishop o si viajar a un pasado, que casi no le pertenece, para perseguir el fantasma de su esposa.

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"Como una especie de Ian Rankin del sur, James se hace con las delicias de la que se podría denominar la ciudad más relajante de Inglaterra y las vuelve del reves". Independent on SundayCarly Chase esta todavia traumatizada por el accidente de trafico que tuvo hace unos diez dias y en el que resulto muerto un estudiante de la universidad de Brighton. Es entonces cuando recibe una noticia que pondra del reves toda su existencia: los conductores de los otros vehiculos involucrados en el accidente han sido encontrados torturados y asesinados. Roy Grace de la policia de Sussex advierte a Carly de la seriedad del peligro en el que se encuentra, porque ella podria ser la siguiente. La mujer, aterrorizada, no sigue el consejo de la policia de esconder su identidad y ponerse a salvo y decide que si nadie puede ayudarla, es ella misma la que tiene que protegerse. Lo que desconoce, es que el asesino se ha anticipado y la observa, espera y se prepara?

Be careful what you wish for...John and Naomi Klaesson are grieving the death of their four- year- old son from a rare genetic disorder. They desperately want another child, but when they find out they are both carriers of a rogue gene, they realize the odds of their next child contracting the same disease are high. Then they hear about geneticist, Doctor Leo Dettore. He has methods that can spare them the heartache of ever losing another child to any disease - even if his methods are more than they can afford. At his clinic is where their nightmare begins. They should have realized something was wrong when they saw the list. Choices of eye colour, hair, sporting abilities. They can literally design their child. Now it''s too late to turn back. Naomi is pregnant, and already something is badly wrong...

IF HE CAN''T HAVE HER, THEN NOBODY CAN . . .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 . . .