Peter James

La vida de Lynn Barrett se convierte en una pesadilla cuando a su hija Caitlin se le diagnostica un cáncer de hígado terminal. La escasez de órganos hace que incluso candidatos idóneos para un transplante fallezcan mientras esperan que se les pueda realizar la operación. Desesperada, Lynn recurre a un traficante de órganos que encuentra en Internet quien, curiosamente, enseguida le confirma que ha encontrado a una donante perfecta. Entretanto, Roy Grace está trabajando en un caso en que a los restos de tres jóvenes que han aparecido en las profundidades de la costa de Brighton les faltan los órganos vitales... La pista llevará a Grace Rumanía donde operan las mafias de traficantes de órganos de los que el detective sospecha.

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace returns...I want them to suffer, and I want them dead...Carly Chase is traumatised 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 Superintendant 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. Someone has sworn revenge and won't rest until the final person involved in that fatal accident is dead. The police advise Carly her only option is to go into hiding and change 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...

Don't imagine for one moment that I'm not watching you...The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year's Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims' shoes are taken by the offender...Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realises that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. The perpetrator had been dubbed 'Shoe Man' and was believed to have raped five women before murdering his sixth victim and vanishing. Could this be a copycat, or has Shoe Man resurfaced? When more women are assaulted, Grace becomes increasingly certain that they are dealing with the same man. And that by delving back into the past - a time in which we see Grace and his missing wife Sandy still apparently happy together - he may find the key to unlocking the current mystery. Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to identify and save the life of the new sixth victim...

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.

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?

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...

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

Moving to the countryside is a big undertaking for born townies Ollie and Caro Harcourt and their 12-year-old daughter, Jade. But when they view Cold Hill House a huge, dilapidated, Georgian mansion they are filled with excitement. Despite the financial strain of the move, Ollie has dreamed of living in the country since he was a childt. Caro is less certain, and Jade is grumpy about being removed from all her friends. But within days of moving in, it becomes apparent that they aren't the house's only residents. At first a friend of Jade, talking to her on Facetimesees a spectral woman behind her. Then there are more sightings, and two weeks after moving in, Caro, out in the garden, is startled to see faces staring out of an upstairs window from a room which does not appear to exist."

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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 . . .

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

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?

From Peter James, the award-winning author of the Roy Grace series, comes Billionaire, an exhilarating financial thriller. City stockbroker Alex Rocq leads a comfortable life - with a luxury flat in London, a country cottage, a very expensive car, and a lucrative job that still leaves time for leisure. But all this isn't enough. After receiving a tip-off, Alex decides to play the commodities market for himself. He soon learns the hard way that fortune doesn't always favour the brave, and his luck comes to an abrupt end. When he is offered the chance to write off his debts - in exchange for special services and silence - Rocq can't believe his luck. But how far will a desperate man go to harness the power players around him?

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.

Un hecho cotidiano hace que una familia caiga en las redes de una peligrosa organización. Un nuevo caso investigado por Roy Grace.Cuando Tom Bryce encuentra un CD que alguien ha olvidado en el asiento contiguo del tren en el que viaja, hace lo que cualquier persona decente haria: 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 disco: un estremecedor asesinato. A partir de ese momento, su vida y la de su familia comienzan a correr peligro; solo el peculiar detective Roy Grace, especialista en casos sin resolver y conocedor de tecnicas"poco ortodoxas"de adivinacion, parece capaz de ayudarles.

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,

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