Stop Them Dead

‘Peter James is one of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world’ – LEE CHILD, author of the Jack Reacher series

Discover the darkness that lurks around every corner in the latest instalment of the award-winning Grace books, now a major ITV series.

A ruthless crime. A race against time.

When a young farmer confronts intruders in the middle of the night, he has no idea that just minutes later he will be left dying in a pool of blood. What’s more chilling is what the perpetrators were willing to kill for.

At the scene of the crime, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realizes this is no isolated robbery gone wrong, but the tip of the iceberg of a nationwide crime wave in which ruthless organized gangs are making more money from the illegal trade in dogs than they do in drugs. It’s a trade that pits him against some ruthless people who will kill anyone who gets in their way, because where there is greed, there is murder.

‘The master of the craft’ – DAILY EXPRESS

Author Biography

Known for his fast-paced and gripping stories that thrust regular people into extraordinary situations, Peter James has proven himself to be one of the world’s most successful writers, delivering number one bestsellers time and time again. His Superintendent Roy Grace books have been translated into thirty-seven languages with worldwide sales of over twenty-one million copies. He has enjoyed seventeen Sunday Times number one bestsellers, and Find Them Dead spent seven weeks at number one in 2020. The first five novels in the Roy Grace series have been adapted for television by Endeavour’s Russell Lewis and the first episode aired in March 2021.