Our spectacular series of literary legends continues with the bestselling crime master Peter James! Peter has written 19 Sunday Times number 1's, selling over 21 million books worldwide, with his Roy Grace series of books, including Want You Dead and Picture You Dead, turned into a hit ITV drama starring John Simm. His latest novel is Stop Them Dead. We talked to him about cleaning for Orson Welles, calling Kurt Vonnegut out of the blue, the scariest book he's ever read and writing to Enid Blyton about her characters' toilet habits!Daisy will be at the Margate Bookie at the end of October with former podcast guests Lou Sanders, Andi Osho, Yomi Adegoke, Lucy Vine and many more. Details of Daisy's How To Be a Grown Up event with Sarah Knight are available HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookedBOOKSPeter James - Stop them DeadDaisy Buchanan - LimelightRL Stine - GoosebumpsRoald Dahl - The TwitsEnid Blyton - Five on a Treasure IslandPeter James - Dead Letter DropElizabeth Buchan - The New Mrs CliftonGraham Greene - Brighton RockKurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse FiveElspeth Barker - O CaledoniaDodie Smith - I Capture the CastleShirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the CastleSylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly WillowesJohn Marrs - The OneMW Craven - The BotanistJilly Cooper - TackleHenry Williamson - Tarka the OttterAnna Sewell - Black BeautyKenneth Grahame - Wind in the WillowsStuart McBride - The Dead of WinterThomas Harris - Silence of the LambsPeter James - Dead SimpleNatalie Tambini - The Nail SalonNatalie Tambini - The PublicistRutger Bregman - HumankindWilliam Golding - Lord of the FliesE Nesbit - The LarkE Nesbit - Five Children and It Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.