Peter James is a British writer of crime fiction as well as a film producer. As an author, his books, which have been translated into 30 languages, have received acclaim from both readers and critics worldwide. Peter has won many international awards for his work, including Best Crime Writer of the Year 2005 for Dead Simple, and was shortlisted for The Crime Thriller of the Year at the 2007 Richard and Judy Galaxy British Book Awards for Looking Good Dead. As a narrator, he has narrated Richard Patterson's Eclipse from Macmillan Audio.