Description
Product ID: | 9781035007745 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | A Twist of the Knife |
Authors: | Author: Peter James |
Page Count: | 592 |
Subjects: | Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A reissue of the fabulous collection of short stories by Peter James, combining ebook bestsellers Short Shockers One and Short Shockers Two. <p><b><i>A Twist of the Knife </i></b><b>is Peter James’s gripping first full-length collection of short stories now containing the novellas <i>The Perfect Murder</i>, <i>Footloose</i> written with Val McDermid and <i>In The Nick of Time </i>written with Ian Rankin. </b><br><br>With each twist of the knife, a chilling new journey begins . . . From a woman intent on bizarre revenge to a restaurant critic with a morbid fear of the number thirteen, and from a man arranging a life-changing assignation to a couple heading for a disaster-filled vacation . . .<br><br>In multimillion-copy bestselling author Peter James’s collection of short stories we first come to meet Brighton’s finest detective, Roy Grace, in his first case as a young constable and read the tale that went on to inspire James’s hugely successful novel, <i>Dead Simple</i>. Each tale carries a twist that will haunt readers for days after they turn the final page . . .<br><br>Combining every twisted tale from the eBook bestsellers <i>Short Shockers: Collection One</i> and<i> Short Shockers: Collection Two</i>, A<i> Twist of the Knife </i>shows Peter James as the undisputed grand master of storytellers with this sometimes funny, often haunting, but always shocking collection.<br><br><b>‘Peter will send chills up your spine and make you jump at all those bumps in the night. Easily digestible and each one as fantastically goose bump-inducing as the last . . . Brilliant stuff’ - <i>Heat</i></b></p> |
Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-11-09 |