With your declared taste for criminology, Peter James In most of his arguments, he turns this self-taught knowledge on everything concerning the investigation into homicides.
Not that this best-selling author sticks to the noir genre, because he has also made forays into disparate genres since Science fiction until youth plots. But it is in this area of ​​criminal fiction where it moves with the greatest impact.
With the inexhaustible British heritage of crime classics and living with the newest and most powerful authors of this quarry of the islands, ian rankin o Tana french, James is that veteran among the currents, but always a solid reference with a bibliography around 30 crime novels.
Combining suspense, a dose of classic policeman, and knowing how to incorporate part of that scenography of maximum tension that is born from the approach to the mind of the murderer on duty, Peter James continues to regularly jump to the international market with new hits.
3 best Peter James novels:
The tracks of the dead man
This author's series on detective Roy Grace was already moving forward, launched by bookstores around the world when he came up with a singular idea that connected with that sinister side of the world, which unfortunately manifests itself randomly with its maddening cadence.
What we are going to. In this story we meet Ronnie Wilson, an increasingly cornered con artist who thinks of the fall of the Twin Towers of New York as a macabre opportunity to disappear from his world crowded with persecutors and scammers willing to do anything for his skin. But there are always loose ends. As much as Ronnie Wilson disappears, his ghost will have the same pending accounts, because bad decisions in the face of big problems end up generating existential cyclones that are never erased from consciousness.
Between the ghost Wilson and the bones of his wife found, Roy Grace will take the case to heart because of the attunement to traumas from his own past. Only, when you discover that the investigation into the deceased links the matter to old Ronnie Wilson, the matter will become especially relevant and difficult. And logically Ronnie Wilson will consider that the hiding of his new identity can facilitate continuing with his crimes and even crimes. Such a story deserved twists and turns, tension and enjoyment. And it certainly does.
A simple death
The novel with which the detective Roy Grace series began. Perhaps not the best plot but that necessary initiation towards the recognition of a protagonist extended by so many independent cases that find in this work the necessary letter of introduction, the hooks that on many occasions serve as a shaft for any subsequent development in that area. of the personal of this protagonist.
Even more so with the emotional load borne by a guy who has lost his wife and who, in each new installment, offers those flashes of the impossible search that weighs down his tormented soul. On this first occasion we ran into a party with a bitter ending. Friends who get together for a kind of bachelor party, with that transgressive intention of so many guys willing to abandon singleness.
In the end, the future boyfriend, Michael Harrison seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. And what is more serious, 4 victims from among their friends, point to a tragic end to the party. Poor Ashley Harper gives Roy a background on everything so she can find Michael. But Roy must consider everything, a voluntary disappearance after an unexpected reaction, or a revenge in which Michael is the protagonist, or a disastrous outcome caused by someone close to him who saw a personal affront at the party ...
Expected death
The coincidences as foundations for a sinister plot. The feeling that any of us can find ourselves immersed in underworld underworld that we could not even remotely imagine. Peter James pulls on this feeling of maddening strangeness to present us with a fast-paced novel in which the lives of Tom Bryce and his family are in danger never imagined.
While Tom reinvents himself in a scenario of maximum tension between fear and survival instinct, Roy Grace will take the reins of the case. The CD that Tom found, and in which a murder could be visualized, will be what links these two very disparate worlds, that of Tom's family and that of the shadows in which life has its price.
A time trial story in which Tom can only count on the instinct of investigator Roy Grace to try to emerge unscathed from the worst accident that could have awakened with a chance encounter.
