Wish You Were Dead: Quick Reads
- Published
- 27 May 2021
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN-13
- 9781529041002
- Type
- novella
About this book
Wish You Were Dead: Quick Reads is a short standalone novella that sits alongside the numbered Roy Grace novels, written by Peter James and published in May 2021, running 128 pages. It's placed in this catalogue's publication order after Left You Dead and before Picture You Dead. It's a Quick Reads-style companion piece outside the series' numbered main sequence.
Key facts about Wish You Were Dead: Quick Reads
Wish You Were Dead: Quick Reads is a novella by Peter James. Readers have had it since 27 May 2021. It runs to 128 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Wish You Were Dead: Quick Reads. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781529041002 to find the main one.
Wish You Were Dead: Quick Reads is book 18 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
Wish You Were Dead: Quick Reads is book 18 in the Roy Grace series. It follows Left You Dead. It is followed by Picture You 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781529041002