Peter James Books in Order

MI5 agent Max Flynn is ordered to spy on his own side, then finds a mysterious computer stick that makes him a target. Chased from New York to London, he has to expose a mole before he is erased.

Max Flynn is pulled into Operation Angel, a terrorist plot that could turn a British nuclear power station into a weapon. With few allies and killers closing in, he must work out who is using him and why.

City stockbroker Alex Rocq risks everything on a commodities tip and loses. When powerful people offer to erase his debts in return for silence and service, greed becomes a trap with no easy exit.

This early standalone thriller follows a restless man through a world of desire, money and danger, where each new move tightens the trap around him. It is a dark Peter James story about appetite and consequence.

This adventure revisits Biggles, the daring First World War flying ace, for a new generation. Time, danger and aerial action collide as old-fashioned courage meets a more modern kind of peril.

After her son Fabian dies, Alex begins to feel his presence everywhere. A medium's fear pushes her to investigate his past, and what she finds suggests that grief may be hiding something far more dangerous.

Samantha Curtis has built a comfortable life, until childhood nightmares return and start coming true. As visions of disaster close in, she must face a killer from her past who may not be finished with her.

Charley and Tom move into Elmwood Mill hoping for a fresh start. Instead, Charley is pulled into memories that feel too real, and hypnosis opens a door to a violent past that may still want her.

Reporter Kate Hemmingway investigates a disturbing exhumation that officials want buried again. Her search leads into medicine, mediums and a horrifying question: what if death is not the end of suffering?

Archaeologist Frannie Monsanto falls for widower Oliver Halkin and his young son, but strange coincidences soon turn deadly. To survive, Frannie must understand a family motto with a chilling hidden meaning.

Scientist Joe Messenger is obsessed with defeating death through artificial intelligence and cryonics. When a brilliant researcher claims consciousness can be transferred into a computer, his dream becomes a nightmare of accidents and obsession.

Montana Bannerman believes a powerful pharmaceutical company is saving her father's work, until deaths linked to a fertility drug point to a cover-up. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy with terrifying human costs.

This technology-minded book taps into the thrill and unease of life going online. James brings his interest in computers to a moment when the digital world was starting to feel exciting, strange and risky.

John and Susan face ruin unless they can find a fortune in thirty days. A mysterious Swiss banker offers the money, but his price threatens their marriage, their future and everything they believe is true.

After his mother takes her own life, Thomas Lamark blames her psychiatrist, Michael Tennent. His need for punishment turns into a calculated obsession, and the doctor becomes the target of a terrifying lesson.

When Ross Ransome's ill wife turns to alternative medicine and a charismatic therapist, he sees betrayal where she sees hope. His cold logic curdles into control, and love becomes something frighteningly possessive.

A stag-night prank leaves groom-to-be Michael Harrison trapped and his friends dead. Roy Grace investigates a disappearance that should have been simple, until money, silence and motive make it anything but.

Tom Bryce finds a disc on a train and tries to do the right thing. Instead, he witnesses a murder and drags his family into the path of killers, while Roy Grace races to protect them.

Katie Bishop is murdered, and all signs point to her husband Brian. The problem is that Brian appears to have been miles away at the time, leaving Roy Grace with a suspect, an alibi and no certainty.

A body in a Brighton storm drain pulls Roy Grace into a case that reaches back to 9/11 and across the Atlantic. A woman is being hunted, and the past is closing in fast.

Teenage bodies are found off the Sussex coast with vital organs missing. As Roy Grace follows a trafficking trail, a desperate mother searches for a black-market liver that could save her daughter.

A New Year's Eve assault in Brighton echoes an unsolved series of crimes from years earlier. Roy Grace must decide whether a copycat is at work or a predator known as the Shoe Man has returned.

Victor and Joan Smiley's marriage has curdled into resentment, affairs and revenge. Each wants the other gone, but murder is harder to control when both partners have been making plans.

This dark seasonal short story puts a Peter James twist on Christmas, where good intentions and family feeling do not guarantee safety. It is brief, sharp and more unsettling than festive.

A fatal traffic accident in Brighton connects ordinary driver Carly Chase to a powerful New York crime family. Roy Grace has to protect her before grief, money and revenge deliver a death sentence.

After losing their son to a genetic disorder, John and Naomi seek a designer-baby solution in international waters. They want a healthy child, but the choices they make may create something beyond their control.

A Hollywood film brings superstar Gaia to Brighton, along with a stalker who may already be waiting. Roy Grace must guard a celebrity target while the city's biggest publicity coup turns dangerous.

A brutal burglary leaves an elderly woman dying and a priceless watch missing. Roy Grace follows the trail from Brighton's antiques world to New York, where old promises and old crimes still matter.

This short story collection shows Peter James working in compact, nasty turns of fate. It includes the story that helped spark *Dead Simple*, along with dark little shocks built around ordinary weakness.

In this short, high pressure case, a weary officer finds that a routine inquiry is hiding a much darker crime. As the clock runs down, split second choices decide who walks away and who does not.

Red Westwood thinks she has escaped manipulative Bryce Laurent, but his obsession is only beginning. Under police protection, she discovers that he plans to destroy everyone she loves before coming for her.

Ollie Harcourt moves his family into a crumbling Sussex mansion, hoping for a country dream. Cold Hill House has other residents, and one impossible room holds the key to its dark history.

Logan Somerville vanishes from an underground car park during a terrified phone call. When older remains surface elsewhere in Brighton, Roy Grace suspects the city may be facing a serial killer.

Written with former senior police officer Graham Bartlett, this nonfiction book explores the real policing behind Roy Grace's Brighton. It blends casework, procedure and the research that helps James build his crime novels.

Jodie Bentley wants beauty, wealth and freedom from inconvenient husbands. As Roy Grace hunts a possible Black Widow in Brighton, he realizes her charm may hide a far deadlier talent.

Investigative journalist Ross Hunter receives a call from a man claiming to have proof of God's existence. The search sends him across the world, chased by people who would kill to control the truth.

Lorna Belling wants out of a brutal marriage and thinks a new lover might save her. When a woman is found dead in a Brighton bath, Roy Grace faces a case full of plausible suspects.

This illustrated nonfiction guide surveys famous crimes, criminals, investigations and ideas in criminology. Peter James brings a crime writer's perspective to a broad, accessible look at how crime is studied and solved.

Businessman Kipp Brown takes his teenage son to a football match, then loses him in the crowd. A kidnap demand follows, and Roy Grace enters a criminal world where nothing is straightforward.

A Brighton woman's death leads Roy Grace into the world of online romance scams. When a motivational speaker discovers his identity has been stolen, the case points to a global fraud network willing to murder.

In this crossover short story, detectives Carol Jordan and Roy Grace compare notes when a woman’s body is found without its feet and a separate pair of feet turns up elsewhere. With Tony Hill’s help, they hunt a predator with a grisly fixation.

Cold Hill House is gone, replaced by sleek new homes, but the land has not forgotten. As the first families move in, old fears return in modern rooms with nowhere safe to hide.

This nonfiction account follows the long fight for justice after the murders of two young girls in Brighton. It traces the failed first prosecution, the family's persistence and the investigation that finally convicted Russell Bishop.

Juror Meg Magellan is selected for the trial of a ruthless Brighton drug lord, then receives a threat involving her daughter abroad. Roy Grace must uncover the pressure before justice is bought by fear.

Doctor Marcus Valentine seems to have the perfect life, until a near miss with a female jogger awakens an old obsession. What begins as fascination becomes stalking, and his respectable world starts to crack.

Eden Paternoster vanishes after a routine stop at a supermarket, leaving her husband Niall waiting in the car park. With no body and no trace, Roy Grace must decide whether there is even a crime.

Roy Grace takes his family to France for a holiday, but the rental is nothing like promised. When an old enemy tracks them down, a break from work becomes a fight to survive.

Harry and Freya Kipling buy a cheap portrait and may have found a lost masterpiece beneath it. Roy Grace enters the fine-art world, where greed, fraud and violence hide behind polished manners.

A young farmer is murdered during a night-time break-in, and Roy Grace soon sees more than a robbery. The case exposes a ruthless dog-trafficking network where greed is worth killing for.

At a funeral, James Taylor sees a man he believes died two years earlier. While Roy Grace investigates suspicious deaths across Brighton, the impossible sighting points toward a dead man who may still be dangerous.

Sandy Grace finally gets her own story, revealing what happened after she vanished from Roy's life. Her disappearance becomes a tale of fear, reinvention and the secrets she could not bring home.

A royal train derailment and a sniper's bullet pull Roy Grace into a case touching Buckingham Palace. Grace doubts the obvious target, but a second murder raises the stakes and leaves little room for failure.