New stage adaptation of Peter James detective novel Picture You Dead set for UK tour

Best-selling crime writer Peter James is set to see another of his acclaimed detective novels adapted for the stage.

Picture You Dead, based on Peter James’s best-selling Grace books, has been adapted into a new stage thriller, and will tour the UK in 2025.

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace will be back on stage in this brand new detective drama, which will be the seventh stage adaptation of Peter James’s Sunday Times best-selling books.

Picture You Dead will see DSI Grace back home in Brighton, investigating a cold case that leads him to the rarified world of fine art. Beneath the respectable veneer lurks a dark underworld of greed, deception and murder.

Peter James has written 20 best-selling books, with his DSI Roy Grace novels also adapted into successful ITV drama series Grace.

Video: Picture You Dead – Teaser trailer

Picture You Dead is once again adapted for the stage by Shaun McKenna (The Lord of the Rings The Musical, Exhibitionists), whose adaptation of The Forsyte Saga is coming to the Park Theatre in London this October. Shaun has also adapted Grace novels The Perfect Murder, Dead Simple, Looking Good Dead, Wish You Were Dead, The House On Cold Hill and Not Dead Enough for the stage.

The show is directed by Jonathan O’Boyle, and produced by Joshua Andrews.

The Picture You Dead tour includes Brighton Theatre Royal, London Richmond Theatre, Milton Keynes Theatre, Glasgow Theatre Royal, and Birmingham Alexandra Theatre, with tickets now on sale.

Peter James said in a statement: “From early childhood, I have always passionately loved live theatre and the sense of the shared experience that comes with it – surprise, suspense, shock, laughter and the entire range of human emotions. With Josh Andrews’ brilliant producing, Shaun McKenna’s very clever adaptation and Jonathan O’Boyle’s masterly and inventive directing, I’m confident that Picture You Dead is going to be my best adaptation yet and I hope everyone who comes to see it will have a fantastic time!”

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