Roy Grace · Book 23
The Hawk Is Dead
- Published
- 21 October 2025
- Pages
- 543
- ISBN-13
- 9781529090086
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Hawk Is Dead is the 21st book in the Roy Grace series, written by Peter James, published in October 2025. It follows One of Us Is Dead and precedes Dead in Three Two One in the reading order.
Its place in Roy Grace
The Hawk Is Dead is book 23 in the Roy Grace series. It follows One of Us Is Dead. It is followed by Dead in Three Two One. 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 9781529090086