Roy Grace · Book 10

Want You Dead

Published
1 January 2014
Pages
405
ISBN-13
9781427267337
Type
novel
Cover of Want You Dead

About this book

Want You Dead is the 10th book in the Roy Grace series, written by Peter James, published in 2014 at 405 pages. In the reading order it follows Dead Man's Time and precedes You Are Dead.

Key facts about Want You Dead

Peter James wrote Want You Dead, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2014. The book has 405 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781427267337 to find the main one.

Want You Dead is book 10 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

Want You Dead is book 10 in the Roy Grace series. It follows Dead Man's Time. It is followed by You Are 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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