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