Ten of the world’s best crime writers are competing to have a state-of-the-art morgue named after them – and you can vote for me! The morgue is going to be a centre for scientific research and training, helping the next generation of scientists, doctors and dentists to become better at saving lives and at developing…
Joan Collins picked PERFECT PEOPLE for her ‘Book of the Year’ in this week’s Mail on Sunday. “Peter James is acknowledged as being one of the top thriller writers in the UK, and his series of crime novels featuring DI Roy Grace are the best of the current genre. But in his new novel PERFECT…
Ken Owen, who chose my Roy Grace novels as his Specialist Subject on Mastermind (the show will screen early in spring, 2012) has kindly prepared a fun Xmas quiz based around my Roy Grace novels for you. Some questions are straightforward, and some will require sleuthing work worthy of Roy Grace’s detective skills !!! First…
Hello again, The past weeks have been very hectic. I was at a wedding in the wonderful Franchoek district of South Africa, then doing book promotion in Cape Town. I flew from there to Sharjah in the Emirates, as a guest of the Sharjah Book Fair. It is a beautiful place with lovely people, but…
Win a magnum of Champagne in my 2011 HALL OF FAME photo competition, which launches today! Deadline Jan 5th, 2012: To enter, email a photograph to me (scary@pavilion.co.uk) showing one or more of my books in a fun situation, or of you reading one in an amusing pose or unusual or interesting location. The prize…
If you are in Canada, my lovely Canadian publishers are giving away signed copies of Dead Man’s Grip. Here is the link: https://apps.odylfarm.com/harpercollinscanada/Giveaways/
Hello again, Well, I have had quite a result this past week. Much to my amazement I won the TV3 People’s Bestseller Dagger Award!!! I beat Lee Child, David Baldacci, Mark Billingham and Peter Robinson, and I could not be more thrilled. I owe all of you who voted - and who so enthusiastically got…
Here’s a bit of sadistic Halloween fun for you! A Halloween interview and a quiz I did for Winebox TV: Winebox TV Halloween Special II – with guest Peter James
I’m delighted to announce the winning title chosen from over 5,000 entries is: “NOT DEAD YET” As several of you suggested this title, we decided to put the winning entries into a hat and give the first three that came out a magnum of Champagne each. The names are: … Lee Kelly, Kate Turney and…
This is the first review in of Perfect People, and I’m thrilled to bits with it. I am really excited about this book, and hope very much that all of you who read it will find it both an exciting read, but that it will give you much to think about, as this review says:…