Christmas Quizzes

Every year Ken Owen, who had chosen my Roy Grace novels as his specialist subject on Mastermind, creates a Christmas Quiz for my readers. It is notoriously challenging, so this year to open it up to more of you who perhaps don’t have the time or the inclination to burrow through my books and the…

My Old Haunt (The Sunday Times)

Living in a house with several ghosts inspired my latest novel, says the crime writer Peter James My latest novel, The House on Cold Hill, was inspired by my experience of living in a haunted house; a beautiful Georgian manor on the edge of a hamlet in Sussex. There had been a monastery on the…

How to make a killing: Hannibal Lecter or Tom Ripley? Britain’s top crime writers pick their favourite villain (Daily Mail)

Moriarty or Corleone? Christie or Chandler? Who IS the ultimate villain? And who’s the master of murder fiction? As the world’s biggest crime-writing festival opens in Yorkshire, Event hauls in eight top thriller writers for a grilling… Click here to read: How to make a killing: Hannibal Lecter or Tom Ripley? Britain’s top crime writers…

Peter James’s top 10 books about Brighton (The Guardian)

Published Wednesday 13 May 2015 12.13 BST From Julie Burchill to Jane Austen, the crime novelist picks his favourite fiction featuring a city ‘perpetually helping police with their inquiries’Noël Coward once described Brighton thus: “Ah, dear Brighton, piers, queers and racketeers.” And Keith Waterhouse said: “Brighton has the air of a town that is perpetually…