Dead Simple
Dead Simple has been a bestseller in the UK, France and Germany. See below for more information.

[Für alle deutschen Leser von Peter: Sie finden viele Informationen zu Peters neuestem Buch "Stirb schön" auf einer eigenen, deutschsprachigen Website unter www.stirbschoen.de sowie auf der Website von Peter's deutschem Verlagshaus Fischer]

"Peter James's superior thriller... gripping...nail-biting...a satisfyingly complex puzzle" The Times

"Ingenious plotting, high suspense and tight writing should guarantee instant lift-off for this new series" Daily Mail

"A terrific tale of greed, seduction and betrayal." Daily Telegraph

"This is the first in a new crime series which promises to be both fascinating and destined for the bestsellers." Independent On Sunday

"Achingly well plotted, with suspense that has no letup." Booklist,USA

"An addictive investigation" Woman and Home

"Peter James knows how to write! He knows how to keep me - a very experienced crime reader - awake!" Blick, Switzerland's biggest selling daily newspaper [see full article]

"Mystery novels make very special Christmas presents... Especially when they are so well crafted, good and surprising as Stirb Ewig by Peter James." Brigitte magazine, Germany

WH Smith Travel bookshops' "Read Of The Week" for the week commencing Jan 27th 2006

Four bodies, one suspect, no trace. The first case for detective superintendent Roy Grace.

It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Grace - a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife - is contacted by Michael's beautiful, distraught fiancée, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrison's whereabouts is saying nothing. But then he has a lot to gain - more than anyone realizes. For one man's disaster is another man's fortune...Dead simple...

The stunning first novel in a gripping new mystery series, Dead Simple marks the triumphant return of one of Britain's most ingenious crime writers.

Peter explains why he created Detective Superintendent Roy Grace:
"Roy Grace is a new, and very different detective, based in Brighton, in England - a city that is the favoured place to live in the UK for first divison criminals (I was told this by a former Chief Constable). Grace's own experience and personal loss - his wife, Sandy, has been missing for nine years - leaves him open-minded to all methods of police work in order to find the truth about the cases he investigates - and to try to find out what happened to his wife. He uses everything available, from high tech to old fashioned police slog, from forensics and pathology analysis, and because of his own interest in the paranormal, is open to input from mediums and clairvoyants. I'm deeply fascinated by the many facets of police work, and particularly how it is changing with the times, and my research for the Grace novels takes me through almost all of it."

:: Read the first chapter of Dead Simple online!

:: Read Peter's article about working with the Brighton Police

:: Watch a short video of Peter talking about Dead Simple on MeetTheAuthor.co.uk

:: The Times review of Dead Simple

:: Daily Mail review of Dead Simple

:: Crimespree review of Dead Simple

:: The Bookseller review of Dead Simple

:: The Independent on Sunday review of Dead Simple

:: The Australian review of Dead Simple

:: The Daily Telegraph review of Dead Simple

:: The Evening Argus review of Dead Simple

:: 24Fun (Romania) review of Dead Simple

:: Sherbrooke Record review of Dead Simple

Find out more about Dead Simple's paperback and hardback editions at the Panmacmillan website.


:: Dead Simple: international award winner

Dead Simple. Krimi-Blitz winner, 2005. Peter James has been voted
Best Crime Writer of the year in Germany.

Comme Une Tombe (French translation of Dead Simple) - WINNER for France's 2006 Le Prix Polar International award, 2006

Comme Une Tombe - shortlisted for Le Prix Coeur Noir literary prize at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines festival, 2006

:: Dead Simple: international bestseller
Dead Simple has been a bestseller in the UK, France and Germany. It has spent two months on the UK paperback bestseller lists, reaching No 2 on Amazon, No 4 in WH Smith Travel shops, No 4 in Asda, No 7 in Tesco and No 10 on the Nielsen Bookscan Sunday Times bestseller list. It reached no 7 in Germany and No 9 on the Le Parisien list in France.

When the novel was first released in May 2006 it spent several weeks in the UK hardback Top 20 bestseller list. Dead Simple was published in Germany under the title "Stirb Ewig" in August 2005 where it reached Number 7 on the German hardback bestseller lists and was a top ten hardback thriller on Amazon.de.

Peter James has been selected by Publishers Weekly in 2005 as one of the five crime writers tipped to become a new brand name in the USA. [Read the Publishers Weekly excerpt about Peter]

Stirb Ewig [Dead Simple] German hardback edition, published August 2005

Dead Simple USA hardback edition, published Jan 2006

Dead Simple Audiobook
Dead Simple is being released as an Audiobook in June 2006. The book is read by the accomplished actor William Gaminara, who plays Professor Leo Dalton in the television series Silent Witness and was also known as the voice of Dr. Richard Locke in The Archers.

Forthcoming international editions of Dead Simple include:

USA: Carroll & Graf
Brazil: Readers Digest
Bulgaria: Prozorets
China: Jiuzhou Press
Czech Republic: Brana
Denmark: Cicero
Finland: Readers Digest condensed books
France: Editions du Panama, hardback, Editions Pocket, paperback.
[Browse French reviews of Dead Simple, published as Comme Une Tombe]
Germany: Scherz, Weltbild, Audiobuch
Greece: Modern Times
Holland: de Fontein
Italy: Kowalski
Latvia: Kontinents
Lithuania: Jotema
Norway: Schibsteds
Poland: Media Lazar
Portugal: Gotica
Romania: Nemira
Russia: Centrepolygraph
Serbia: Laguna
Spain: Roca Editorial
Sweden: Damm Förlag
Taiwan: Spring International
Thailand: WeLearn

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