Picture You Dead - Roy Grace (Hardback)
Peter James (author)Published: 29/09/2022
The latest intensely gripping instalment in James' award-winning series finds Detective Superintendent Roy Grace plunged into the mystifying and exclusive world of fine art, when a priceless painting turns up in a car boot sale.
Discover the darkness that lurks around every corner in the latest instalment of Peter James's award-winning detective series, which is now a major ITV programme starring John Simm as Roy Grace.
Harry and Freya, an ordinary couple, dreamed for years of finding something priceless buried amongst the tat in a car boot sale.
It was a dream they knew in their hearts would never come true - until the day it did...
They buy the drab portrait for a few pounds, for its beautiful frame, planning to cut the painting out. Then studying it back at home there seems to be another picture beneath, of a stunning landscape. Could it be a long-lost masterpiece from 1770? If genuine, it could be worth millions.
One collector is certain it is genuine. Someone who uses any method he can to get want he wants and will stop at nothing.
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace finds himself plunged into an unfamiliar and rarefied world of fine art. Outwardly it appears respectable, gentlemanly, above reproach. But beneath the veneer, he rapidly finds that greed, deception and violence walk hand-in-hand. And Harry and Freya Kipling are about to discover that their dream is turning into their worst nightmare...
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781529004366
Number of pages: 464
Weight: 695 g
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 37 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Sinister and riveting… Peter James is one of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world. - Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels
Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business - Karin Slaughter
A typically clever and convoluted central mystery - Daily Mirror on Left You Dead
Left You Dead is a real page-turner. - Express on Left You Dead
As ever, the pages become blurred as you race to discover the verdict. The plot also leaves you hungry for the next episode in DS Grace’s personal drama - i newspaper on Find Them Dead
Reading your books after reading another author is like coming home. - John Simm, from the Left You Dead launch event
Peter James creates a world we can smell, touch and feel for his Brighton detective Inspector Roy Grace - The Times on Not Dead Enough
One of the world’s most popular detective series - The Guardian
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