John Grebble Is Gone

John Grebble wakes up to discover he’s been declared dead. His bank account is frozen, his car repossessed, and his entire existence erased. Someone wants him gone—permanently.

Within hours, his world unravels. His debit card is declined. His car is towed away. His office locks him out. The police treat him like a criminal. According to every system, every database, every official record—John Grebble is no more.

But John is very much alive. And as he tries to uncover who could have pulled off such an elaborate erasure of his identity, he realises this isn’t just a mistake—it’s personal. Someone with intimate knowledge of his life has gone to extraordinary lengths to scrub him out completely. And this is just the start…

In this gripping short thriller laced with dark humour, Number One Sunday Times bestselling author Peter James asks: can John Grebble uncover who would go this far to destroy him before it’s too late?

Peter James is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, best known for his crime thrillers featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, who Queen Camilla recently named as her favourite fictional detective. Praised by critics and much loved by crime and thriller fans for his fast-paced page-turners full of unexpected plot twists, sinister characters and accurate portrayals of modern-day policing, he has won more than forty awards for his work, including the WHSmith Best Crime Author of All Time Award and the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger. With a total of twenty-one Sunday Times number ones, his books have sold more than 23 million copies worldwide and have been translated into thirty-eight languages. The sixth season of the hit drama Grace, based on the Roy Grace novels, is currently filming, starring John Simm as the troubled Brighton copper. The series is available to watch on ITVX and BritBox. Seven of his novels have been adapted into hit stage productions, his most recent being Picture You Dead, and his plays have been named ‘the most successful stage franchise since Agatha Christie’.

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John Grebble Is Gone is an utterly unputdownable short story from Sunday Times Number 1 powerhouse Peter James. John Grebble wakes up one morning to a letter from his bank telling him he is dead. But John is very much still alive and now in a thrilling race against time to find out who is trying to entirely destroy him. With the pace of Michael Connelly, the dark humour of Ian Rankin, and the psychological brilliance of Freida McFadden, I tore threw this breathless story in one spine-tingling gulp. I hope you love it too.

—Maisie Lawrence, Editor