Host was also adapted to a TV movie titled Virtual Obsession in 1998. Peter James has worked also on over 25 other movies and films, being either a producer or writer. Some of the actors playing in these movies were Sharon Stone, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Michael Cane, among others. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is brought on to the case and grows suspicious when the one friend who wasn’t out celebrating refuses to collaborate on the case. All of a sudden, a motive surfaces, and Michael’s near accident may not be so accidental after all. In Looking Good Dead, published in 2006, Tom Bryce finds an apparently lost cd and decides to try to return it to its owner. But when his mission to return the cd leads to him witnessing a ghastly homicide, his family is threatened if he decides to go to the police. Meanwhile, Roy Grace is still haunted by his missing wife. It’s been nearly ten years since she disappeared. The second season, which aired in 2022 with four episodes, includes four Roy Grace books: Looking Good Dead, Not Dead Enough, Dead Man’s Footsteps, and Dead Tomorrow. A Twist of the Knife (2014) (short story collection) – With each twist of the knife, a chilling new journey begins . . . From a woman intent on bizarre revenge, to a restaurant critic with a morbid fear of the number thirteen; and from a man arranging a life-changing assignation to a couple heading for a disaster-filled vacation . . . This online fraud and scam 5seem to be just that until Roy discovers that the culprits can murder people if their identity is on the line.

The story starts without delay, and readers are sent into an exciting plot. A car accident results in the death of an American student living in Brighton.

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But she did not stop there. She wanted it all for herself. So all she wants to do is get rid of her husband. Dead Man’s Grip is an excellent psychological thriller that will make the readers sweat with anxiety and fear while simultaneously becoming excited about learning what happens next. James explained that, in his experience, a majority of policemen and policewomen enjoy their work, even though they have to work insane hours, deal with the bureaucracy, and face horrible tragedies, as well as the internal politics of the system. But he also explains that those experiences are the reason that police workers look at the world differently than everyone else. In his twenties, he wrote and published two spy thrillers, but they didn’t really sell. He began writing earnestly in the early 1980s, but he had his first major breakthrough with Possession in 1988, followed by Dreamer in 1989. Not just the producer, but the actress, Gaia, has a lot at stake in this movie. This movie could get her the coveted Oscar nomination and cement her as a prominent movie star who is taken seriously.

Roy Grace is also different in that he will use anything and everything available to him to solve a case. He will use basics like pathology analysis and forensics, to mediums as far off the beaten path as the paranormal, getting input from mediums and clairvoyants about his work. Grace has his own belief system in ghosts and things that go bump in the night, and he brings that into his cases. James has got the gift for turning mind-stretching subjects into novels that are irresistibly readable as well as utterly believable (Robert Goddard)The story then unfolds into something far more profound and dangerous as Grace finds connections to mobsters, criminal families, and personal vendettas spanning decades and multiple countries. In the UK, the first two seasons aired on ITV. In the US, they found a home on BritBox. As of mid-2022, we know that a third season has been commissioned, with a likely (though unconfirmed) air date in early 2023. With the help of the police, she's able to remove him from her life – but he's obsessed and determined to destroy her and everything she ever loved. The first season, which premiered in 2021, was made based on the author’s first book in the series, Dead Simple. As previously mentioned, Dead Letter Drop was Peter James’s debut novel. The year following its publication he wrote a sequel once again following undercover agent Max Flynn in a race against time. Both books were originally published in the 1980s, and then reissued in the mid-2010s.