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Roy Grace Séries

Cette série captivante suit un détective dévoué alors qu'il résout des affaires de meurtre déconcertantes dans le comté pittoresque, mais souvent sinistre, du Sussex, en Angleterre. Chaque épisode plonge les lecteurs dans des enquêtes complexes, dévoilant des secrets cachés et des drames humains complexes. La poursuite incessante de la justice par le protagoniste et son approche méthodique pour résoudre des crimes apparemment impossibles forment le cœur de cette fiction policière convaincante. C'est une lecture incontournable pour les amateurs de polars atmosphériques et centrés sur les personnages.

Dead Like You
La mort n'attend pas. Und morgen bist du tot, französische Ausgabe
Tu ne m'oublieras jamais
Not Dead Enough
La mort leur va si bien
Comme une tombe

Ordre de lecture recommandé

  1. Comme une tombe

    • 531pages
    • 19 heures de lecture

    Lorsqu'il se réveille six pieds sous terre dans un cercueil avec du whisky, une lampe de poche, une revue érotique et un sérieux mal de crâne, Michael Harrison pense à une mauvaise blague. Très vite, il se remémore la soirée arrosée de la veille avec ses copains pour son enterrement de vie de garçon. Seulement les heures passent et personne ne vient le chercher... A la surface, sa fiancée s'inquiète. A trois jours des noces, elle signale la disparition de Michael à Roy Grace, inspecteur aux méthodes peu conventionnelles, dans la ligne de mire de sa hiérarchie. Pour retrouver le futur époux il n'a qu'un seul indice : ses témoins. Mais leur camionnette est en pièces et aucun d'eux n'a survécu à l'accident...

    Comme une tombe1
    3,9

  2. La mort leur va si bien

    S'il avait eu le moindre soupçon de l'effet dévastateur qu'un CD, trouvé sur la banquette d'un train de banlieue allait avoir sur sa vie, Tom Bryce l'aurait sans doute laissé là où il était...

    La mort leur va si bien2
    4,0

  3. Not Dead Enough

    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is investigating the bizarre slaying of Katie Bishop, a member of Brighton, social elite. Her husband Brian appears to be in the clear--he was in another town at the time, sound asleep. But Grace begins to suspect the presence of a doppelganger: is someone else--almost identical to Bishop--involved in the crime?

    Not Dead Enough3
    4,1

  4. Tu ne m'oublieras jamais

    • 608pages
    • 22 heures de lecture

    11 septembre 2001, site du World Trade Center. En route pour un rendez-vous d'affaires crucial, un homme assiste, désemparé, à l'effondrement des tours jumelles. Pris en plein chaos, acculé par les dettes, il décide de se faire passer pour mort. Octobre 2007. Un squelette est retrouvé dans un collecteur d'eaux pluviales de Brighton. A mesure que l'identification avance, l'horreur étreint le commissaire Roy Grace : la description correspond en tous points à celle de son ex-compagne disparue 9 ans plus tôt... Au même moment, dans la même commune, une jeune femme traquée monte dans l'ascenseur de son nouveau logement. Le piège se referme et la cabine chute de plusieurs étages, avant de se stabiliser dans un équilibre fragile. Un bouton d'appel d'urgence hors service. Pas de réseau. Aucun voisin. Et soudain, un texto : Je sais où tu es… Trois histoires a priori sans lien...

    Tu ne m'oublieras jamais4
    4,2

  5. La mort n'attend pas. Und morgen bist du tot, französische Ausgabe

    • 679pages
    • 24 heures de lecture

    Dans "Brighton", le commissaire Roy Grace enquête sur des corps d'enfants retrouvés dans la Manche. Parallèlement, une mère cherche désespérément un donneur pour sauver sa fille de 15 ans, tandis qu'à Bucarest, une femme propose un avenir meilleur à des enfants.

    La mort n'attend pas. Und morgen bist du tot, französische Ausgabe5
    4,2

  6. Dead Like You

    • 553pages
    • 20 heures de lecture

    Don’t imagine for one moment that I’m not watching you... The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year’s Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims’ shoes are taken by the offender... Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realises that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. The perpetrator had been dubbed ‘Shoe Man’ and was believed to have raped five women before murdering his sixth victim and vanishing. Could this be a copycat, or has Shoe Man resurfaced? When more women are assaulted, Grace becomes increasingly certain that they are dealing with the same man. And that by delving back into the past - a time in which we see Grace and his missing wife Sandy still apparently happy together - he may find the key to unlocking the current mystery. Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to identify and save the life of the new sixth victim...

    Dead Like You6
    4,0

  7. Dead Man's Grip

    Carly Mallory is driving; she’s tired and just a little distracted. She doesn’t see the boy on a bike until it’s too late. She swerves and misses, but this isn’t a one-car-accident. Police discover she had one-too-many the night before, and a truck driver involved is over the limit on his legal working hours, another doesn’t even bother to hang around. Three people caught up in a violent accident, one dead body lying cold in the morgue. Now, someone is taking revenge for the boy’s death. When the other drivers are found brutally murdered, Roy Grace and his team are called in to investigate; two gruesome deaths, with Carly clearly marked as the final target. Now, Grace must guard her from a killer blinded by revenge and psychotic rage. He wants to make her sorry, to make her pay, and he wont stop until the final splash of blood in the jigsaw has been spilled.

    Dead Man's Grip7
    4,0

  8. Not Dead Yet

    Deadly obsession is only the beginning...For LA producer Larry Brooker, this is the movie that could bring the fortune that has so long eluded him...For rock superstar, Gaia, desperate to be taken seriously as an actor, this is the role that could get her an Oscar nomination...For the City of Brighton and Hove, the publicity value of a major Hollywood movie being filmed on location, about the city's greatest love story - between King George 1Vth and Maria Fitzherbert - is incalculable. For Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of Sussex CID, it is a nightmare unfolding in front of his eyes. An obsessed stalker is after Gaia. One attempt on her life is made days before she leaves her Bel Air home to fly to Brighton. Now, he has been warned, the stalker may be at large in his city, waiting, watching, planning.

    Not Dead Yet8
    4,0

  9. Que sonne l'heure

    • 552pages
    • 20 heures de lecture

    In the latest thriller from international bestselling author Peter James, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace faces a formidable opponent—a man fueled by rage and desperation. The story begins in New York, 1922, where five-year-old Gavin Daly and his sister, Aileen, are escaping to Dublin after their mother is murdered and their mobster father is kidnapped. A mysterious messenger gives Gavin a note with four names and eleven numbers, along with his father's pocket watch, setting him on a lifelong quest to find his father. Fast forward to Brighton in 2012, where Grace is investigating a brutal burglary that results in the murder of an elderly woman and the theft of £10 million worth of antiques, including a rare watch. Surprisingly, the family is less concerned about the antiques than recovering the watch. As Grace delves deeper, he uncovers a web of old and new animosities, all linked to Gavin Daly, the deceased woman's ninety-five-year-old brother. With a vendetta to fulfill and a promise to keep, Gavin's quest intertwines with the dark underbelly of Brighton's antiques scene, the criminal world of Marbella, and the shadows of New York. Grace must race against time to prevent further bloodshed, confronting his most dangerous adversary yet.

    Que sonne l'heure9
    4,0

  10. Want You Dead

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    Virtual romance becomes a terrifying obsession in Want You Dead... Single girl, 29, smouldering redhead, love life that's crashed and burned. Seeks new flame to rekindle her fire. Fun, friendship and -- who knows -- maybe more? When Red Westwood meets handsome, charming and rich Bryce Laurent through an online dating agency, there is an instant attraction. But as their love blossoms, the truth about his past, and his dark side, begins to emerge. Everything he has told Red about himself turns out to be a tissue of lies, and her infatuation with him gradually turns to terror. Within a year, and under police protection, she evicts him from her flat and her life. But Red's nightmare is only just beginning. For Bryce is obsessed with her, and he intends to destroy everything and everyone she has ever known and loved - and then her too...

    Want You Dead10
    4,1

  11. You Are Dead

    • 512pages
    • 18 heures de lecture

    Roy Grace makes the chilling realization that Brighton has its first ever serial killer.

    You Are Dead11
    4,2

  12. Love You Dead

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two dreams in life - to be beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the second. Her philosophy on money is simple: you can either earn it or marry it. Marrying is easy, it's getting rid of the husband afterwards that's harder, that takes real skill. But hey, practice makes perfect ...Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is feeling the pressure from his superiors, his previous case is still giving him sleepless nights, there have been major developments with his missing wife Sandy, and an old adversary is back. But worse than all of this, he now believes a Black Widow is operating in his city. One with a venomous mind ...and venomous skills. Soon Grace comes to the frightening realization that he may have underestimated just how dangerous this lady is. Love You Dead is the gripping twelfth book in Peter James' Roy Grace series.

    Love You Dead12
    4,3

  13. La mort de Lorna Belling

    • 528pages
    • 19 heures de lecture

    Le treizième roman du Superintendant de police Roy Grace, créé par l'auteur acclamé Peter James, confronte Grace à son affaire la plus mystérieuse à ce jour. Lorna Belling, désespérée de fuir un mariage infernal, tombe sous le charme d'un autre homme qui lui promet monts et merveilles. Cependant, Lorna découvre que la vie ne suit que rarement les plans que l'on a établis. Une photographie prise par le téléphone d'un client change tout pour elle. Lorsque le corps d'une femme est retrouvé dans une baignoire à Brighton, le Superintendant Roy Grace est appelé sur les lieux. Au départ, l'affaire semble simple avec un suspect principal évident. Puis d'autres scénarios commencent à se dessiner, chacun d'eux étant délicieusement plausible, jusqu'à ce qu'un retournement de situation, à sa grande surprise, rende l'affaire plus sinistre que Grace n'aurait jamais pu l'imaginer.

    La mort de Lorna Belling13
    4,2

  14. Dead If You Don't

    • 512pages
    • 18 heures de lecture

    The fourteenth novel in the highly acclaimed Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series, from international bestselling author Peter James.A parent's worst nightmare is Grace's deadliest case.Shortly after Kipp Brown, a seemingly wealthy businessman, and his teenage son, Mungo, arrive at the Amex stadium for their team's biggest-ever football game, Mungo disappears. Assuming that Mungo has gone to the loo before kick-off, Kipp calmly takes his seat. But when there's an emergency security announcement telling everyone to exvacute the stadium, Kipp begins desperately searching for his son.In the panic that follows, Kipp receives a text with a ransom demand and a terrifying warning: We have your son. If you wish to see him alive again you will not contact the police and you will follow our instructions very carefully.But as a massive, covert manhunt for the boy and his kidnappers begins, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace realizes that nothing is what it seems.

    Dead If You Don't14
    4,2

  15. Dead at First Sight

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    The fifteenth Detective Superintendent Roy Grace novel from the highly acclaimed number one bestselling author, Peter James.

    Dead at First Sight15
    4,0

  16. Find Them Dead

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    The sixteenth Detective Superintendent Roy Grace novel from the highly acclaimed number one bestselling author, Peter James.

    Find Them Dead16
    3,9

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    FaceOff: Doppeltes Spiel
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    • 14 heures de lecture

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    Face Off
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    • 592pages
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    A Twist of the Knife
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