Crime writer Peter James talks to ME & MY MONEY
His books are set in Brighton, where James grew up, and have been turned into the hit ITV drama series, Grace, starring John Simm.
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His books are set in Brighton, where James grew up, and have been turned into the hit ITV drama series, Grace, starring John Simm.
His books are set in Brighton, where James grew up, and have been turned into the hit ITV drama series, Grace, starring John Simm.
EXCLUSIVE: As our veteran columnist retires from the Daily Express, Roy Grace creator Peter James pays tribute to the game-changing nature of books like The Day Of The Jackal and The Dogs Of War and reveals how they inspired a generation of thriller writers.
INTERNATIONAL best-selling Sussex crime author Peter James is, by anyone's standards, having a very successful 2021. The first of his famous Roy Grace novels aired as an ITV drama last month - with many more in the pipeline - and his next novel is just months away. On top of this, a tour of a Roy Grace stage play is set to start in June and the invented detective's ever-hectic schedule continues later this year when he will star in a novella as part of a government programme to encourage people into reading. But the 72-year-old's path to crime-writing royalty was not a straightforward...