Peter James

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

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.

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?

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.

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Some killers are closer man you think... Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage from hell, falls for the charms of a man who promises her the earth. But, as Lorna soon finds, life seldom follows the plans you've made. A chance photograph on a client's mobile phone changes everything for her. When the body of a woman is found in a bath in Brighton, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to the scene. At first it looks an open-and-shut case with a clear prime suspect. Then other scenarios begin to present themselves, each of them tantalizingly plausible, until, in a sudden turn of events, the case becomes more twisted and dangerous than Grace could ever have imagined.

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...

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!

Carly Chase is still traumatised after being in a traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that the drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex Police force issues a warning to Carly: She could be next.

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...

En el hotel Metropole de Brighton, la noche de Nochevieja una mujer es brutalmente violada cuando regresa a su habitación. Una semana más tarde alguien ataca a otra mujer. El violador se lleva los zapatos de las dos... El detective Roy Grace se da cuenta enseguida de que estos casos son muy similares a otros que quedaron sin resolver en 1997 en cuya investigacion el participo. Al criminal se le apodo Hombre de los zapatos y se cree que violo a cinco mujeres antes de acabar asesinando a la sexta de sus victimas y de desvanecerse. Ahora, Grace no sabe si se trata de alguien imitando los ataques originales o del propio Hombre de los zapatos que ha reaparecido, pero cuando las violaciones se suceden, Grace acaba por convencerse de que se trata del mismo hombre. Y de que escarbando en el pasado ?una epoca en que Roy Grace todavia era feliz junto a su esposa Sandy, ahora desaparecida?puede encontrar la clave para resolver la investigacion. Pero tiene que ser una carrera contra reloj, porque la policia se teme que vuelva a repetirse la historia despues cuando llegue a la sexta victima.

Lorsqu'il se réveille six pieds sous terre dans un cercueil avec du whisky, une lampe de poche, une revue érotique et un sérieux mal de crâne, Michael Harrison pense à une mauvaise blague.Très vite,

Cuando encuentra un CD de ordenador que alguien ha olvidado en el asiento contiguo del tren en el que viaja, Tom Bryce hace lo que cualquier persona decente haría: lo recoge y cuando llega a casa intenta averiguar a quien pertenece para poder devolverselo. Sin embargo, su buena fe topara con el escalofriante contenido del disquete: un terrible asesinato. A partir de ese momento, su vida y la de su familia comienzan a correr peligro, acosados por un juego macabro; solo el peculiar detective Roy Grace parece capaz de ayudarlo.

Cuatro cuerpos, un sospechoso, ninguna pista. El primer caso deldetective Roy Grace.Se suponía que sería una broma inofensiva, pero algo ocurrió. Michael Harrison ha desaparecido y cuatro de sus amigos han muerto. Faltaban tres dias para su boda y Ashley Harper, su prometida, contacta al detective Grace, un hombre atormentado por el recuerdo de su mujer desaparrecida, para pedirle ayuda. Pronto, Grace descubrira que la unica persona que conoce el paradero de Michael no tiene intencion de hablar... al menos de momento."Un magnifico relato de codicia, seduccion y traicion."Daily Telegraph

THEY WERE MARKED FOR DEATH. The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancee, 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?

Décimo primera entrega de la serie Roy Grace, escrito por el aclamado Peter James, autor bestseller de novela negra.