After massive TV success of Peter James' Grace comes a new stage adaptation

Following the critically-acclaimed smash-hit primetime ITV series Grace, based on the best-selling novels by crime author Peter James, producer Joshua Andrews has announced the world stage premiere of James' novel Wish You Were Dead featuring DSI Roy Grace.

This will be the sixth stage adaptation of James’ best-selling novels - making it the most successful crime thriller stage franchise since Agatha Christie.

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Adapted for the stage, the world premiere of Wish You Were Dead will kick off a major five-month nationwide UK tour in February 2023 at. The production will then travel to theatres across the country until late July. Tickets are on sale now from PeterJames.com, with further dates to be announced soon.

Dates will include March 20-25 Brighton Theatre Royal and June 6-10 Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre.

Peter James said: “I have always loved live theatre so it’s been thrilling to watch how much audiences around the UK have loved the plays. Theatre and the escapism it provides us all is so important – particularly now. Inside the safe cocoon of a theatre, audiences love to be on the edge of their seats and sometimes shocked, always hoping when that final curtain falls, order will have been restored and the world will seem just a little bit