For LA producer Larry Brooker, this is actually the movie that could bring the fortune that has such a long time eluded him .

For rock and roll superstar, Gaia, eager to be taken seriously as an professional, this is the role that could get her an Oscar nomination . . .

For the town of Brighton and Hove, the promotion value of a major Hollywood movie getting filmed on location, about the city’s greatest love tale – between Ruler George IV and Maria Fitzherbert – can be incalculable.

For Detective Superintendent Roy Sophistication of Sussex CID, it is a problem unfolding before his eye. An obsessed stalker is after Gaia. One attempt on her behalf life is manufactured times before she leaves her Bel Air home to take flight to Brighton. Today, he has been warned, the stalker may be at large in his town, waiting, watching, planning.

Not Dead However may be the eighth novel featuring detective Roy Elegance, from the main bestselling author Peter James.