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"Crime Among The Coffee Cups"

posted by Peter James @ 7:16 AM   0 Comments

Peter James, along with fellow crime writers Simon Brett and Peter Lovesey, will be appearing at Ottakar's Haywards Heath on Monday 17th July at 7pm. Please do come and say hello if you can! It is a ticketed event - please contact Ottakars Haywards Heath for details - tel. 01444 453411, fax. 01444 451932, email: haywardsheath@ottakars.co.uk

Bodies In The Bookshop - Booking Signing Event

posted by Peter James @ 9:45 AM   1 Comments

Here's some more info on the book signing event I'll be attending at Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge - looks like I'll be in good company!

Bodies in the Bookshop - an evening free from speeches and readings.
Tuesday, July 18th at 6 to 8.30pm.

Make murder your business and book an evening to die for, with a body of the best crime writers in the business including:

Carla Banks, Ray Banks, Victoria Blake, Stephen Booth, Maureen Carter, Kate Charles, Barbara Cleverly, Chris Collett, Natasha Cooper, Charles Cumming, Judith Cutler, Penny Deacon, Ruth Downie, Nick Drake, Ron Ellis, Jane Finnis, Frances Fyfield, Seth Garner, David Gibbins, Philip Gooden, Jason Goodwin, Susanna Gregory, Allan Guthrie, Peter Guttridge, June Hampson, Veronica Heley, Lesley Horton, Peter James, Michael Jecks, Jim Kelly, Deryn Lake, Simon Levack, Peter Lovesey, Adrian Magson, Edward Marston, Andrew Martin, Priscilla Masters, Margaret Murphy, Stuart Pawson, Andrew Pepper, Ann Purser, Sheila Quigley, Justin Richards, Liz Rigbey, Mike Ripley, David Roberts, Rosemary Rowe, C. J. Sansom, Zoe Sharp, Chris Simms, Michelle Spring, Nick Stone, Andrew Taylor, D. J. Taylor, Frank Tallis, Edwin Thomas, James Twining, Martyn Waites, John Wilcox & Laura Wilson (confirmed so far)

who will be signing their books at Heffers Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge. This is a ticketed event ONLY. Tickets, cost £5.00, (£3.00 redeemable against any purchase on the evening) can be obtained from the Ground Floor Cash Desk at 20 Trinity Street or by contacting Richard Reynolds on 01223 568532/email: literature@heffers.co.uk

Looking Good Dead Launch Party

posted by Peter James @ 3:48 AM   2 Comments

Just had a great launch party for Looking Good Dead at Borders in Churchill Square, Brighton on Wednesday, June 7th, with nearly two hundred people attending. I was particularly honoured to have my dear and very close friend, writer James Herbert, come along, as well as several other writer mates, including Vicky Sinha, wife of Indra Sinha, Mitch Symons (who among many achievements compiled the original set of questions for the pilot of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire), Fiona Cane, who's wonderful debut novel, Killing Fame, has just been published and Russell Ash (The Top Ten Of Everything) who sent me the picture of his lovely and highly talented wife Caroline reading the book the next day. He tells me nude reading is quite the thing in Lewes...


Looking Good Alive!


It was also fabulous to have the entire staff of Brighton and Hove Mortuary - Elsie Sweetman, who is my real life Cleo Morey, and Victor and Sean. Elsie started heckling me during my speech - I guess in her line of work she is not used to people talking back to her!!!!

We were graced by several of the wonderful team at Macmillan, including David North, the MD, Geoff Duffield, the Group Sales and Marketing Director and Anna Stockbridge, Sales Director and my incredible, amazing, wonderful editor, Stef Bierworth. And my tireless agent, Carole Blake, in yet another awesome pair of shoes...


The Macmillan team and James Herbert (next to Peter)


Most important of all was the presence of David Gaylor, whose career and work Roy Grace's is modelled on. When I first met Dave he was a Detective Inspector with Sussex CID, then rose to Detective Superintendent, then to Chief Superintendent. We also had several other key members of Sussex Police, including Chief Superintendent Peter Coll, Ray Packham of the High-Tech Crime Unit, and a surprise visit from PC Paul Grzegorzek of the Local Support Unit - the heavy squad who, among other activities, execute arrest warrants. Paul is helping me on my current novel, Not Dead Enough, and was originally not able to come to the launch. Then he found himself chasing a car thief over the rooftops of Churchill Square, right by the scene of the launch party and decided to drop in - quite literally. But then the vicious brute arrested the wrong guy...


Peter James arrested at his own party!



Peter James Book Signings

posted by Peter James @ 10:58 AM   2 Comments

To celebrate the publication of Looking Good Dead, I'll be signing copies of my books at Waterstones, Notting Hill Gate, London at 2pm on Saturday, June 17th.

I'll also be appearing at:
Ottakers, Worthing, Thursday June 22nd at 7pm and
Heffers, Cambridge, Tuesday, July 18th at 6 to 8.30pm.

Please do come along and say hello! It's always a pleasure to meet with my readers face to face.

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