Left You Dead

If you have never read Peter James’ crime thriller series about the Sussex detective, Roy Grace, I would highly recommend you give it a try!

~ Her Majesty Queen Camilla

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Featured in: Season 4

Publish Date: 2021

The eighteen books of this series see Brighton-based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigate mysterious and puzzling crimes. A man haunted by his demons and by the disappearance of his own wife, Roy Grace “is a new, and very different detective…open-minded to all methods of police work in order to find the truth.”

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