Peter James Territory

Brighton is the home territory of best-selling crime fiction author Peter James, writer of 32 novels including 12 featuring Roy Grace, Detective Superintendent of Sussex Police. He has been published in 36 languages and is rarely out of the pages of the local newspaper, the Argus, being involved in many worthy local charities and most recently donating his second police car to Sussex Police – the livery of this car (alongside the police markings) changing to reflect the book jacket of the current Roy Grace novel.

I thought of him today when I saw a crime scene in North Street, in the centre of Brighton, as I was shopping. Police tape cordoned off about 100 yards of the pavement while forensics officers and photographers scoured the scene. A street sleeper, a young girl, was allowed to remain in situ behind the cordon.

 

According to the Argus’s website, an unconscious man was found lying in a pool of blood at around 7am this morning. He is still in a critical condition. Police have arrested three people, two, a man and a woman, on suspicion of robbery, and a third man on suspicion of GBH (Grevious Bodily Harm), all remain in custody.