·Popular British crime and thriller writer, author of the first
ever eBook, wins public vote
·Tenth book in bestselling Roy Grace™ series picks up eBooks by Sainsbury’s award
·Peter James pips Dani Atkins and Robert
Galbraith to the post
Peter James’ gripping psychological thriller Want You Dead has been
crowned eBooks by Sainsbury’s eBook of the Year 2014.
The bestselling author emerged victorious following a month-long national
competition to uncover the UK’s favourite digital read.
In its
second year, the eBook of the Year award is designed to let readers decide
their stand-out “screen turner” of the year - the eBook that has kept them
glued to their eReaders. The public was given a longlist of over 150 titles to
choose from, spanning a range of genres; from biographies to women’s fiction
and thrillers to non-fiction; and eBooks by Sainsbury’s has
spent the last month collecting the votes.
Author
of Want You Dead, Peter James, also authored the world’s first
eBook. The gripping thriller saw off esteemed literary talent in the shape
of The Story of Us by Dani Atkins, Robert Galbraith’s The
Silkworm, Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch and Lee Child’s Personal to
win the prize.
The
tenth novel in Peter James’s Brighton-based detective series, which has sold
over 15 million copies worldwide, is a transfixing and harrowing tale
recounting how a promising online romance turns sour. For the protagonist, Red
Westwood, infatuation becomes terror as she begins to see an increasingly
darker side to the man she has let into her life. It becomes evident that he is
not only obsessed with her, but determined to destroy everything and everyone
she has ever known and loved.
Peter
James said: “I’m really thrilled to have
won this award from such a brilliant retailer. Over the past few years
Sainsbury’s has established their books division as a major platform of the
book trade. It means a very great deal to me to have won this highly
prestigious award, and I believe that the support of Sainsbury’s is an
invaluable endorsement of the importance of books and reading to us all.”
More information Peter James and his books can be found on his website. You can also follow him on Twitter @peterjamesuk or find him on Facebook.
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