Death Comes Knocking

Notes

Death Comes Knocking by Graham Bartlett, and Peter James unearths the seamier side of Brighton.

Retired police officer Graham Bartlett is one of Peter James’s advisors. Here, with James’s help, he writes about real crimes committed in Brighton and links them to James’s fictional events. This book is for you if you are interested in true crime and are a fan of the Roy Grace series.

Publisher’s Synopsis

Fans of Peter James and his bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of Brighton and Hove police and are set in a world every bit as gritty as the real thing. His friend Graham Bartlett was a long-serving detective in the city once described as Britain’s ‘crime capital’. Together, in Death Comes Knocking, they have written a gripping account of the city’s most challenging cases, taking the reader from crime scenes and incident rooms to the morgue, and introducing some of the real-life detectives who inspired Peter James’s characters.

Whether it’s the murder of a dodgy nightclub owner and his family in Sussex’s worst non-terrorist mass murder or the race to find the abductor of a young girl, tracking down the antique trade’s most notorious ‘knocker boys’ or nailing an audacious ring of forgers, hunting for a cold-blooded killer who executed a surfer or catching a pair who kidnapped a businessman, leaving him severely beaten, to die on a hillside, the authors skilfully evoke the dangerous inside story of policing, the personal toll it takes and the dedication of those who risk their lives to keep the public safe.

Read a full review of Death Comes Knocking by Graham Bartlett and Peter James at Write to Inspire.