Roy Grace · Book 19

Picture You Dead

Published
15 September 2022
Pages
464
ISBN-13
9781529004380
Type
novel
Cover of Picture You Dead

About this book

Picture You Dead is the 18th book in the Roy Grace series, written by Peter James, published in September 2022. It follows Wish You Were Dead: Quick Reads and precedes Stop Them Dead in the reading order.

Key facts about Picture You Dead

Picture You Dead is a novel by Peter James. Readers have had it since 15 September 2022. It runs to 464 pages.

Our list holds 2 editions of Picture You Dead. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781529004380 to find the main one.

Picture You Dead is book 19 of 24 in the Roy Grace series. The series has 24 published books. However, the series starts with Dead Simple (2005). Dead in Three Two One is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 22 October 2026.

That series sits on our police procedural shelf. Meanwhile, Dead in Three Two One is the latest published Peter James book on file, from 22 October 2026.

About Peter James

Peter James is a British crime novelist best known for the Roy Grace series, following a Brighton-based detective superintendent whose cases are complicated by his own long-running personal mystery — the unexplained disappearance of his first wife years before the series begins. See every Peter James book in order.

Its place in Roy Grace

Picture You Dead is book 19 in the Roy Grace series. It follows Wish You Were Dead: Quick Reads. It is followed by Stop Them Dead. See the full Roy Grace reading order.

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace runs Major Crime for Sussex Police out of Brighton, a city Peter James renders with the same obsessive, insider detail he brings to procedure itself — James spent years riding along with real CID officers, and it shows in the forensic accuracy of every investigation. Each novel (all titled with some variant of the word "Dead") is a self-contained case, but Grace's personal life runs as a serialised thread underneath: the unexplained 1997 disappearance of his first wife, Sandy…

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