Fans of Peter James and his bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels
know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of Brighton
and Hove police and are set in a world every bit as gritty as the real
thing. His friend Graham Bartlett was a long-serving detective in the
city once described as Britain's "crime capital." Together they have
written a gripping account of the city's most challenging cases, taking
the reader from crime scenes and incident rooms to the morgue, and
introducing some of the real-life detectives who inspired Peter James's
characters. Whether it's the murder of a dodgy nightclub owner and his
family in Sussex's worst non-terrorist mass murder or the race to find
the abductor of a young girl, the authors skilfully evoke the dangerous
inside story of policing, the personal toll it takes and the dedication
of those who risk their lives to keep the public safe.