My Old Haunt (The Sunday Times)

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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)

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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)

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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…

More funerals and a wedding (The Argus)

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First published Friday 20 February 2015 by Duncan Hall Duncan Hall speaks to Sussex-based author Peter James about the stage adaptation of his novel Dead Simple. A STAG night prank gone wrong announced Brighton’s most famous detective to the wider world, and launched a series of books which has now sold in excess of 14…