Stop Them Dead
- Published
- 14 September 2023
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN-13
- 9781529089981
- Type
- novel
About this book
Stop Them Dead is the 19th book in the Roy Grace series, written by Peter James, published in September 2023. It follows Picture You Dead and precedes They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story in the reading order.
Key facts about Stop Them Dead
Stop Them Dead is a novel by Peter James. Readers have had it since 14 September 2023. It runs to 512 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Stop Them Dead. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781529089981 to find the main one.
Stop Them Dead is book 20 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
Stop Them Dead is book 20 in the Roy Grace series. It follows Picture You Dead. It is followed by They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781529089981