The Perfect Murder – My New Novella

As you might have already seen elsewhere on this website, my novella, The Perfect Murder, is going to be published very soon. Although the book is not officially on sale until March 4th, it is not embargoed to a specific date, like the Roy Grace novels, and a number of retailers, including Amazon, are already…

The Peter James Scholarships

Peter James Scholarships As a token of thanks to Brighton University for awarding me an Honorary Doctorate last year, my publishers, Pan Macmillan, decided it would be a nice gesture to fund two annual scholarships for English at the University. Recently, Geoff Duffield, Group Sales and Marketing Director of Pan Macmillan, and I, attended a…

My New Career As A Photo Journalist!

I accompanied 40 Police officers last Friday on a raid on three flats in central Brighton where the occupants were suspected of drug dealing on a large scale. It was a real adrenaline rush!  It started with a 7am briefing at Hove Police Station.  Then we were all shipped in vans, instructed to switch our…

PJ Tops Brighton Library Loans!

I was delighted to learn that I was the most borrowed author in Brighton and Hove this past year, with Not Dead Enough hitting No 1 and Dead Man’s Footsteps at No 5.  Let’s hope they all get returned! I had an email from a reader to say she had brought one of my earlier, out…

Dead Tomorrow Competition

The excellent Shots crime magazine is currently running a competition where they’re giving away 3 signed copies of Dead Tomorrow – all you have to do is answer a simple Roy Grace related question to be in with a chance of winning your own copy!  Please see the Shots Magazine Peter James competition page for…

HAPPY 2010 TO ALL MY READERS

A big thank you for all your wonderful support and enthusiasm for my writing during this past year.  Thank you for your blog comments, your emails and your tweets! I wish you all a wonderful New Year and New Decade!  And so does Roy, Glenn, Norman, Bella, Nick, E-J and all the rest of the…