WINTER GHOSTS
International best-selling author of the Roy Grace crime that his career as a worldwide bestseller took off.
novels, Peter James, tells John Gilbert why he has returned
Peter has always been interested in the paranormal,
to the ghost story form after more than twenty years...
but I wondered why, at this time, had he decided
to pen a new ghost story. “Much though I love
writing my Roy Grace books – I’ve literally just
finished the first draft of the 12th in the series,
there are other areas I’m very keen to explore.
There are few writers in the UK who can claim to be a
household name. Peter James is one of them. I first met
him in the early days of FEAR when he was writing
paranormal thrillers such as Possession, Prophecy,
Alchemist and Twilight. He was well known amongst
horror and fantasy fans and some of his novels,
including Sweetheart and Possession, appealed to
wider audiences, but it was not until 2005 when he
published the first Roy Grace novel, Dead Simple,
I wrote Perfect People, a thriller about “designer”
babies, which was published four years ago, in
which I look at the choices science will ultimately
give parents on choosing the genetic make-up of
their offspring. I loved writing it and the book was
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