Roy Grace · Book 21

They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story

Published
1 May 2024
Pages
440
ISBN-13
9781529031447
Type
novella
Cover of They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story

About this book

They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story is a companion novella in the Roy Grace series, written by Peter James and published in May 2024. It's placed in this catalogue's publication order after Stop Them Dead and before One of Us Is Dead. It's a Quick Reads-style companion piece outside the series' numbered main sequence.

Key facts about They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story

Peter James wrote They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story, a novella on our list. It has been out since May 2024. The book has 440 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novella. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781529031447 to find the main one.

They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story is book 21 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

They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story is book 21 in the Roy Grace series. It follows Stop Them Dead. It is followed by One of Us Is 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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