Best-selling crime novelist to visit Plymouth

Best-selling crime novelist Peter James is visiting Plymouth later this month.

Peter, who is currently touring the UK, will visit Plymouth University on Tuesday 20 October as part of the Plymouth International Book Festival, where he will be discussing his writing and forensics with Plymouth graduate Haydn Kelly.

Haydn is a forensic podiatry analyst and actually features in Peter’s Roy Grace books as an expert in the field. Peter will be giving an insight into how he developed his writing through talking to people like Haydn and building up extensive knowledge about forensics and crime investigations. You can find out more here, and book tickets: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/walk-this-way

The event starts at 6pm and will finish at around 8pm.

It is a free event but all places must be booked in advance.

The event is held at Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University.

Peter will also be talking about his new book, The House on Cold Hill which came out last week.

Peter James is one of the UKs best loved crime writers and was voted WH Smith’s Best Crime Writer of All Time. His Roy Grace detective series, based in Brighton, have sold over 16 million copies worldwide and have been translated in to 36 languages. Many of Peter’s books including his most recent novel You Are Dead, have gone straight to the Number One spot in the bestseller charts. Peter also scooped the Dr Lecter Award for Scariest Villain at the inaugural Dead Good Reader Awards for the murderer in You Are Dead.
 
Peter’s new book The House on Cold Hill is a ghost novel and is based on his real life experiences. In 1989 Peter moved to a classic Georgian manor house. The house was haunted. It didn’t take long for the first ghostly presence to spread its chill throughout the house. It was while unpacking that Peter and his mother-in-law both saw a fleeting shadow cross spookily in front of them. Since then, Peter regularly encountered four ghosts and many unexplained mysterious happenings in the house. He had various people including Chief Exorcist of the Church of England (a former vicar of Brighton) investigate the supernatural goings on.