Peter James' third Roy Grace novel, Not Dead Enough, was released on Friday and is set to become a summer bestseller. (Review here). Peter has been kind enough to take time out of his tour, coming to a bookshop near you soon, to answer 10 questions:
Favourite author:
Graham Greene
Favourite book:
Brighton Rock - it was the novel that inspired me to become a writer
Favourite character:
Travis McGee in the John D Macdonald books. He lived on a houseboat on the Florida Keys, drove a Rolls Royce pickup truck, and got things back for people.
Best book read in 2007:
Red Leaves by Thomas Cook
Best crime city:
Brighton, of course! Three former chief constables have told me it is the favoured place in the UK for premier league criminals to live in!
Book that gave you the thriller bug:
Desmond Bagley’s Running Blind. And it has one of the best opening lines of all time.
Author to watch
Michael Robotham – his new novel, The Night Ferry, is wonderful
What you snack on while writing:
The four olives I pluck out of my 6pm vodka martini
Who would play Peter James in a film of your life:
Scarlett Johannsen with facial hair and a chest rug.