Picture You Dead will be staged at Theatre Royal in Brighton

Picture You Dead by the UK's number one crime writer Peter James will be playing a home crowd at Brighton's Theatre Royal from March 4 to March 9 next year.

The books about Superintendent Roy Grace have sold more than 23 million copies worldwide and been adapted for ITV’s drama Grace, which is a ratings smash hit.

Picture You Dead will be playing a home crowd (Image: Theatre Royal Brighton)

Back home in Brighton, DS Grace investigates a cold case that leads him to the rarified air of fine art, but beneath the respectable veneer lurks a dark underworld of greed, deception and murder.

Grace is Queen Camilla's favourite literary crime solver, a fact she revealed when speaking on Queen’s Reading Room Podcast.

This is the seventh book by Brighton author Peter to be adapted for the stage by award-winning writer Shaun McKenna.

Tickets are on sale at ATGTickets.com/Brighton.

Novel by UK's number one crime writer Peter James (Image: MICK KAVANAGH)

Peter James said: “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.”