Dead Man's Time

Packham of the High Tech Crime Unit, and
Inspector Andy Kille of Ops 1.
    Huge thanks also to Detective Superintendent John Boshier; Detective Chief Inspector Nick May; Chief Inspector Paul Betts; Senior Support Officer Tony Case; DI William Warner; Inspector Richard
Delacour; PC Darren Balkham; DS Simon Bates; Sgt Lorna Dennison-Wilkins and the entire Specialist Search Unit; Scenes of Crime Officers, James Gartrell, Chris Gee, Lucy Steel, Becky Henderson; Sgt
Mehdi Fallahi; PC Laura Stanley; PC Jon Anstead; Sgt Gemma Firth; PC Karl Brown.
    Retired Detective Sergeant Simon Muggleton, formerly of the Sussex Police Antiques Unit, gave me invaluable information about Brighton’s historic antiques underworld.
    Thank you to Giles Ellis of the Schofield Watch Company; Richard Robbins; Derek le-Warde; Michael Keehan; Chris Tapsell; David Wiltshire. Hal Mileham; Simon Schneider. Wayne and Vanessa Manley;
Steve Reynolds; Danny Reardon; Norman Torrington Geneaology Research; Louise Yeoell; Liberty Taylor.
    Forensic Podiatrist, Haydn Kelly; Forensic archaeologist Lucy Sibun; Alan Setterington, Deputy Governor of HMP Lewes.
    Thanks also to Michael Beard, Editor, the
Argus
. My terrific researchers: Tara Lester and Nicky Mitchell; Dr Russell Emerson MRCP DM MB ChB; Sarah London; Sherree Fagge, Chief Nurse,
The Royal Sussex County Hospital; Rob Kempson; Peter Wingate-Saul; Hans Jürgen Stockerl; Peter Hale MA, MS, FRCS (Gen); Tim Parker; Felix Francis; Graham Sones; Phil Homan; Jeannie Civil;
Giles Powell; Bill Shay.
    Tony Parker, Director of Engineering of Shoreham Port; David Miller, Deputy Harbour Master; Chris Jones, Dave Smith and Keith Laker.
    A very special thanks to Alan Prior MD of the Pinnacle Publishing Group, who so very generously let me into many of the secrets of the arcane world of telesales!
    My gratitude as ever to miracle worker Chris Webb of MacService who managed to keep my Mac going after I dropped it, and restore crucial files that had disappeared.
    Very big and special thanks to Anna-Lisa Lindeblad, who has again been my tireless and wonderful ‘unofficial’ editor and commentator throughout the Roy Grace series, and to Sue
Ansell who has read and helped me with every single book I have written, and to Martin and Jane Diplock
    I’m blessed with a truly wonderful agent and great friend, Carole Blake. And with my dream publicity team of Tony Mulliken, Sophie Ransom, Claire Richman and Becky Short of Midas PR; and
there is simply not enough space to say a proper thank you to everyone on Team James at Macmillan, but I must thank my wonderful editor, Wayne Brookes, and my incredibly patient copy-editor, Susan
Opie, as well as my great US team: Andy Martin; my editor, Marc Resnick; my publicists Hector DeJean and Tony Fusco, and all the rest at Team James USA!
    Massive, massive thanks also to my totally brilliant and long-suffering PA, Linda Buckley.
    Helen has, as ever, been unswerving in her support, and putting up with my long nights locked away in my cave. And our three hounds, Phoebe, Oscar and Coco who lie permanently in wait, always
ready to remind me that there is a life – and a lot of buried bones – when I care to step away from my desk!
    I have to reserve the biggest thank you of all, as ever, to you, my readers. Your emails, Tweets, Facebook and Blog posts give me such constant encouragement. Keep them coming! And I will keep
new Roy Grace books coming, I promise you!
    Peter James
    Sussex, England
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By Peter James
    DEAD LETTER DROP
    ATOM BOMB ANGEL
    BILLIONAIRE
    POSSESSION
    DREAMER
    SWEET HEART
    TWILIGHT
    PROPHECY
    ALCHEMIST
    HOST
    THE TRUTH
    DENIAL
    FAITH
    PERFECT PEOPLE
    Children’s Novel
    GETTING WIRED!
    Novella
    THE PERFECT MURDER
    Short Stories Collection
    SHORT SHOCKERS VOLUME ONE
    The Roy Grace