Imagine this. Your bachelor party. Already somewhat toasted, your friends drag you to a remote place where there is a grave dug, a coffin readied equipped with an air hose, walkie-talkie and some other things. They force you in, screw down the lid and bury you, promising to dig you up after they have more drinks.
Terrifying?
Not as much as what happens next. The friends all die in a car crash! There is no one to save you.
It’s a fast-moving book with more than a few twists.
Okay, I’ve teased enough about this. It is the premise of Peter James’ Dead Simple (2005), his very first novel in the Detective Roy Grace series, that also became a television series Grace in the UK (and available on BritBox or Acorn TV in the US.
A handful of years back we had the pleasure of interviewing Peter James, a delightfully quirky author who is the UK No. 1 bestselling author many times over with over 21 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 35 languages.
Click below to read the interview we did.
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