You spend a lot of time with the Brighton police force, and see an aspect of life most of never do. Does anything about Brighton and its 'seedier underbelly', to use a PR phrase, surprise you anymore? Filming commences on highly anticipated new crime drama, Grace, starring John Simm, 14 September 2020". ITV . Retrieved 7 March 2021.

The book is the latest in the Roy Grace series after the previous release of Picture You Dead which launched in October. Metropole, Μπράιτον. Ύστερα από ένα πρωτοχρονιάτικο πάρτι, μια γυναίκα ζει έναν βάναυσο βιασμό καθώς επιστρέφει στο δωμάτιό της. Μια εβδομάδα αργότερα, μια άλλη γυναίκα δέχεται επίθεση. Ο δράστης παίρνει τα παπούτσια και των δύο θυμάτων. Ο αστυνομικός διευθυντής Ρόι Γκρέις συνειδητοποιεί ότι αυτές οι νέες υποθέσεις έχουν πολλές ομοιότητες με μια ανεξιχνίαστη σειρά εγκλημάτων που είχε συγκλονίσει την πόλη πριν από πολλά χρόνια. Ο τότε δράστης είχε ονομαστεί «Παπουτσάς» και ήταν ύποπτος για τον βιασμό πέντε γυναικών προτού δολοφονήσει το έκτο θύμα του και εξαφανιστεί. Τον αντιγράφει κάποιος ή ο «Παπουτσάς» επέστρεψε; Όταν περισσότερες γυναίκες δέχονται επίθεση, ο Γκρέις πιστεύει ότι έχουν να κάνουν με τον ίδιο άντρα. Και ότι ανατρέχοντας στο παρελθόν –μια εποχή που εκείνος και η εξαφανισμένη πλέον σύζυγός του , η Σάντι, ζούσαν ευτυχισμένοι μαζί– ίσως θα μπορέσει να βρει το κλειδί για να λύσει το μυστήριο. Σύντομα ο Γκρέις και η ομάδα του θα βρεθούν σε έναν απελπισμένο αγώνα ενάντια στον χρόνο για να εντοπίσουν και να σώσουν τη ζωή του νέου έ��του θύματος…" (Περίληψη οπισθοφύλλου) Over the years you've covered subject as diverse as transplants, 9/11, surrogacy, genetics, pharmaceuticals and artificial intelligence. Is there a particular subject you've been waiting to use, but haven't yet, and if so, what? Grace star John Simm wants to adapt all of the Roy Grace books for TV, 24 February 2021". Radio Times . Retrieved 7 March 2021. In May 2021, Grace was commissioned for a second series. Filming began in September 2021 in the West Sussex town of Burgess Hill. The second series adapts the next three novels in the Grace series, Not Dead Enough, Dead Man's Footsteps and Dead Tomorrow. Broadcasting of the second series commenced in the UK on 24 April 2022, with Looking Good Dead as the opening episode. [13]A chilling event at the Royal Edward Hotel on the night of ACC Vosper's leaving party forces Grace into a difficult position. In my experience the vast majority of police officers do genuinely love their work, despite the often crazy hours of the job, the bureaucracy, the horrific sights they see and the internal politics. The police look at the world in a different way to the rest of us. I don’t just mean physically, but culturally too. Last year, I was driving through Sussex on a sunny July day with a Detective Inspector, on our way to a crime scene. I asked him if he felt that as a police officer he viewed the world differently to other people. He smiled and said, “You’re looking through the windscreen at a beautiful summer day. I’m looking at a man who is standing in the wrong place.”

The discovery of skeletal remains in a Brighton storm drain and a young girl being hunted by an armed hitman appear to be unconnected, until the two cases unexpectedly collide in the most unimaginable way. Meanwhile, a former colleague of Grace's from the Met, Cassian Pewe ( James D'Arcy) has been sent down to assist the team, and immediately sets about re-opening the investigation into the disappearance of Grace's wife. As the two come to loggerheads, it soon becomes a battle of wills as old enemies must unite to save Abby Morton (Katie Clarkson-Hill) and her elderly mother from those desperate to recover a sheet of priceless stamps. When I was asked about nine years ago to create a new detective, by my publishers Pan Macmillan, I wanted to make Roy Grace different to other fictional detectives. I thought really hard about what it is that detectives actually do, and I realized that first and foremost what they do is to solve puzzles! Every major crime, whether a murder, a rape, a big robbery or a fraud, is a puzzle, to be solved in steady, painstaking steps. I thought it would be intriguing to create a detective who had a personal puzzle of his own that he could not solve, and I came up with the idea that Roy Grace has a missing wife. Almost 9 years before we meet him, we learn that he came home on his 30 th birthday to find his wife, Sandy, who he loved and adored, had vanished.Poor old Roy Grace; he's been through the grinder, privately and professionally. Should we feel sorry for him, or is the old adage that a policeman's lot is not a happy one just grist for your mill? Your books are full of threat wrapped up in otherwise ordinary, sometimes mundanesituations. Do you consciously consider what kind of threat will play most on peoples' fears as the basis for the book, or does that come later?