My love affair with Munich just got even more passionate this week, after the launch of the German edition Not Dead Enough (Nicht Tot Genug), part of which is set in Munich. To my delight, Nicht Tot Genug went straight into the Spiegel bestseller list at No 21 joining the paperback of Looking Good Dead…
Back to reality with a bump from the Far East — but fortunately not such a big a bump as the BA 777 from Beijing that touched down at Heathrow just after us…. A salutory reminder for any nervous flier that air travel has plenty of dangers. I’m always intrigued by travel statistics: on Boeing’s…
I am thrilled to be able to tell you that Roy Grace is ending 2007 on a high. Not Dead Enough has been No 1 in WH Smith and Tesco, and is currently in its fifth consecutive week at No 2 on the official Nielsen UK paperback fiction bestseller list – all thanks to you.…
So who says there is no humour inside mortuaries? This is the Brighton and Hove City Mortuary Xmas card and if you look closely you will spot the real life Cleo Morey (Elsie Sweetman), Darren (Sean Didcott) and the wonderful Victor Sinden. Two weeks ago I attended the Mortuary’s annual Xmas dinner at the excellent…
I was interviewed recently on the Simon Mayo book show on Radio 5, alongside James Lee Burke. We each had to read the other’s latest book in advance of the show, so we could comment. He read “Not Dead Enough” and I read his marvellous “The Tin Roof Blowdown” which resonated with me incredibly, because…
I’ve just had my first taste of being in prison today. I have visited various prisons in the UK on several occasions in the past, giving talks, but afterwards they have always let me leave. But not today! My incarceration took place at Lewes Prison, near Brighton in Sussex. Its inmates range from lifers to…
I’m thrilled to say that in its first week of paperback publication in the UK, Not Dead Enough has gone straight to No 2 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List and to No 1 in WHSmith. Thank you so much for all of you who support my writing so enthusiastically. All best wishes for the…
Some of you are really hot!!!! 🙂 However the question you have got to answer is not just what it is, but WHERE it is. Here is your first clue!
I clearly made my last competition too easy, as several of you bright sparks got the answer quite quickly. I hope you will find this a little tougher. But there will be clues in my next blog post if you are all stuck… So to win my festive bottle of bubbly all you have to…
I’ve just been on a book tour in Holland and Antwerp with my wonderful Dutch publishers, De Fontein. I had bad memories of Amsterdam from a previous visit 25 years ago. I sailed with my then wife, Georgina, in a dinky-sized yacht with two friends, from Orford Ness (a pretty Suffolk coastal resort with a…