Voir les résultats écrits par "Peter James"

Ross Ransome is at the top of his profession; one of the most successful, and certainly one of the richest, plastic surgeons in the business. Such a man would expect his wife to be perfect - and why not? After all, he has spent enough hours in surgery to get her that way. But when his wife falls ill she turns her back on conventional medicine, and her arid marriage, 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 man.

A man waits at a London airport for Ingrid Ostermann, the love of his life, to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired NYPD cop waits in a bar in Florida’s Key West for his first date with the lady who is, without question, his soulmate. The two men are about to discover they’ve been scammed out of almost every penny they have in the world – and that neither women exist.

Les psychopathes ne collectionnent pas que les meurtres. Celui qui a terrorisé Brighton, en 1997, avait une passion particulière : les chaussures des femmes, talons hauts uniquement, de marque de préférence. Après chaque agression, le fétichiste emportait, en guise de trophée, une culotte et un escarpin. Mais la sixième agression s'est transformée en meurtre. Une décennie plus tard, le rituel se répète. Une décennie plus tard, le commissaire Roy Grace est toujours obsédé par l'affaire.

Un riche entrepreneur. Une femme désirable. Une maison luxueuse. Un meurtre. Pour le commissaire Roy Grace, de la police de Brighton, l'affaire est limpide : Brian Bishop a assassiné son épouse volage, empochant une coquette prime d'assurance vie. Les tests ADN ne laissent d'ailleurs aucun doute. Mais quelques détails contredisent cette version trop évidente.

Mauvaise blague : Michael se retrouve dans un cercueil six pieds sous terre avec du whisky et une revue érotique pour son enterrement de vie de garçon. Les heures passent, personne ne vient le chercher, la fiancée s'inquiète et fait appel à Roy Grace. Pour le localiser, l'inspecteur n'a qu'une seule piste : les témoins du mariage, tous morts dans un accident de voiture.

"Cher Monsieur Bryce, hier soir, vous avez accédé à un site que vous n'étiez pas autorisé à visiter. Vous avez de nouveau essayé d'y accéder ce soir. Nous n'apprécions pas les visiteurs non sollicités. Si vous parlez à la police de ce que vous avez vu, ce qui va arriver à votre ordinateur arrivera à votre femme, à votre fils et à votre fille. Vos amis de Scarab Productions." S'il avait eu le moindre soupçon de l'effet dévastateur qu'un CD, trouvé sur la banquette d'un train de banlieue, allait avoir sur sa vie, Tom Bryce l'aurait sans doute laissé là où il était.

La femme du commissaire Roy Grace, disparue neuf ans auparavant, aurait-elle enfin été retrouvée ? L'idée le terrifie. Et si les premières constatations du médecin légiste se confirment, il s'agirait bien de son cadavre dans un collecteur d'eaux de Brighton. Cette découverte macabre n'est que la première pièce d'un puzzle. Les autres vont mener Grace dans les décombres des attentats du 11 septembre et sous le soleil d'Australie, avec cette question lancinante : est-il donc si facile de disparaître ?

Caitlin a seulement 15 ans et son seul espoir de vivre est d'obtenir une greffe de foie, de toute urgence. Mais les listes d'attente sont longues, son groupe sanguin rare et le temps joue contre elle. Aujourd'hui, tout se vend, tout s'achète sur Internet, il suffit de savoir où chercher. Une mère aux abois ne recule devant rien pour sauver son enfant. Et certains le savent... Roy Grace doit agir vite : la mort n'attend pas.

Qu'est ce qui se trame vraiment dans le secret des laboratoires pharmaceutiques ? Monty Bannerman et son père, dont le laboratoire vient d'être racheté par une multinationale risque fort de l'apprendre à leurs dépens. Alertée par un journaliste au sujet de pratiques troublantes, Monty se met à poser des questions embarrassantes... Et des accidents mortels frappent soudain les membres rebelles de cette compagnie.

David Tennant, Catherine Tate and Michelle Ryan are the narrators of this exclusive collection of original audio adventures. Join the 10th Doctor on journeys in time and space in these stories: 'Pest Control', 'The Forever Trap', 'The Nemonite Invasion', 'The Rising Night', 'The Day of the Troll', 'The Last Voyage' and 'Dead Air'. Written by Peter Anghelides, Dan Abnett, David Roden, Scott Handcock, Simon Messingham and James Goss.

Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton never-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime, to disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Five years later the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman's body in a storm drain in Brighton, leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe, and into a desperate race against time to save the life of a woman being hunted down like an animal in the streets and alleys of Brighton.

It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. A few hours later Michael Harrison has disappeared, and his friends are dead. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife - is contacted by Michael's beautiful, distraught fiancée, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrison's whereabouts is saying nothing.

Carly Chase is traumatised after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered.

One single act of kindness becomes an endless reign of terror...Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking up the CD that had been left behind on the train seat next to him, and attempting to return it to its owner, he is the sole witness to a vicious murder. Then his young family are threatened with their lives if he goes to the police. But supported by his wife, Kellie, he bravely makes a statement to the murder enquiry team headed by Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a man with demons of his own to contend with.

In an evil world, everything is for sale.... The body of a missing teenager is dredged from the seabed off the Sussex coast, missing vital organs. Soon after, a further two more bodies are found.... Caitlin Beckett, a 15 year old in Brighton will die if she does not receive an urgent transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down her mother takes drastic action and goes to an online broker in black-market organs. The broker can provide what she wants, but it will come at a price.

Don't imagine for one moment that I'm not watching you.... The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year's Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims' shoes are taken by the offender.... Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realises that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997.

Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award-winning author Peter James, faces his most complex case yet in Dead If You Don't. Shortly after Kipp Brown and his teenage son, Mungo, arrive at the Amex stadium for their team's biggest-ever football game, Mungo disappears. A short while later Kipp receives a text with a ransom demand and a warning not to go to the police if he and his wife want to see their son alive again.

If you've ever had just one day where everything flowed smoothly - you felt relaxed, problems were solved effortlessly, and you focused on enjoying boundless energy and creativity - then you've had a taste of the Ideal Performance State. We know this condition can be called upon at will... and that's what this program is all about.

Appearances can be deceptive; but the truth is a dangerous thing.... On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least that's the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, who is called in to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful socialite, Katie Bishop. Roy Grace soon starts coming to the conclusion that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible feat of being in two places at once.

Be careful what you wish for.... John and Naomi are grieving the death of their four-year-old son from a rare genetic disorder. They desperately want another child, but they realize the odds of their next child contracting the same disease are high. Then they hear about geneticist Dr Leo Dettore. He has methods that can spare them the heartache of ever losing another child to any disease. At his clinic is where their nightmare begins.