Host

Like Dr Frankenstein, brilliant scientist Joe Messenger will stop at nothing in his quest for immortality. Through a combination of artificial intelligence and the freezing of bodies, Joe hopes to be able to defeat death itself. When he meets and falls for Juliet Spring, a gifted young researcher who claims to have stumbled on a…

Possession

Recently separated from her husband, she lives alone, surrounded by reminders of Fabian – a portrait, a gift of red roses sent before he died. She consults a medium, only to have the medium stop in mid-session and refuse to continue, terrified of something but unwilling to reveal what. Alex becomes desperate; she is now…

Alchemist

“ In one hundred and fifty years the pharmaceutical industry has gone from selling snake oil to controlling the future of the human race   ” Dick Bannerman’s daughter Montana has always admired international pharmaceuticals giant Bendix Schere, the very image of a modern, caring company, so when they offer her Nobel Prize-winning father the…

Denial

When Thomas Lamark’s beloved mother takes an overdose rather than face the collapse of her acting career, Thomas decides that someone must be made accountable for what has happened. Something must be wrong with the world. How could the psychiatrist his mother was seeing have let this happen? Doctor Michael Tennent has a lesson to…

Faith

But when his wife falls ill she turns her back on conventional medicine and her arid marriage to Ross and seeks help from the world of alternative medicine and a charismatic therapist who promises not just medical salvation. For Ransome this is the ultimate betrayal. It defies logic and Ross Ransome is a profoundly logical…

The Truth

John and Susan are happily married and successful professionals. John’s multimedia business is beginning to pay back handsomely on its initial investment, Susan is a respected editor at a London publishing house. It seems that life couldn’t be better. And then one day John’s new bank manager calls in their overdraft. They have thirty days…

The Perfect Murder

Also Buy the Script Victor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for nearly twenty years, but each barely recognises the person they wake up with every morning. Victor is so fed up with his job at the local egg-box factory –as well as distracted by his visits to his favourite prostitute, Kamila– that…

Perfect People

“ All they wanted was a healthy child. What they got was the perfect nightmare…   ” After the death of their four-year-old son from a rare genetic disorder, John and Naomi Klaesson learn that if they have another baby there’s a high risk the same thing will happen. Desperate to avoid going through the pain of…

A Twist of the Knife

“ Featuring the story that inspired the Roy Grace Series   ” In multi-million-copy bestselling author Peter James’ collection of short stories we first come to meet Brighton’s finest detective, Roy Grace, and read the tale that went on to inspire James’ hugely successful novel, Dead Simple. James exposes the Achilles heel of each of…

The House on Cold Hill

Moving from the heart of the city of Brighton and Hove to the Sussex countryside is a big undertaking for born townies, Ollie Harcourt, his wife, Caro, and their twelve-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…