Queen Camilla set to function in whodunnit mystery starring her ‘favorite detective’

As its claret-coloured carriages clatter off the tracks, a shot rings within the air.

Just who has derailed the royal educate with Queen Camilla on board, is that this truly an assassination strive – or may just there be an much more sinister homicide afoot?

Fortunately no-one might be extra delighted to search out themselves taking a number one function in their very own royal whodunit than Her Majesty The Queen.

A voracious reader, who’s keen on a just right crime mystery – the twistier, the easier – she is, the Mail can expose, about to celebrity in the most recent ‘Roy Grace’ novel, the multi-million promoting literary sensation through British creator Peter James.

It may also be disclosed that Camilla had one thing of a hand within the gripping new plot, having recommended to James a while in the past that he would possibly wish to set his mythical Brighton-based detective’s newest case in London.

‘And the place higher in London than Buckingham Palace?’ the creator says.

While now not counseled through the palace, James has nonetheless had the chance for some ‘intensive behind-the-scenes analysis’ there, in addition to ‘insights’ from participants of The Royal Household – together with the Queen herself. Making the identities of the ones on the center of ‘The Hawk is Dead: A Killer within the Palace’ the entire extra intriguing.

The ebook, which might be revealed through Pan Macmillan on October 21, is about to develop into a world bestseller.

‘Opening with a cinematic derailment of the royal educate, The Hawk is useless takes Roy Grace deep into the center of Buckingham Palace, the place he is known as upon to unravel a homicide and what appears to be like to be a royal assassination strive,’ its publishers instructed the Mail the day prior to this.

‘Queen Camilla, a well known book-lover and studying champion via her charity, The Queen’s Reading Room, has all the time been one of the crucial first other folks to obtain every Grace novel and is happy to have a starring function, along His Majesty King Charles, in Peter’s newest mystery.’

It is known that Camilla, 77, has already had a sneak top at this as but unpublished one too.

James, who was once born and taken up in Sussex the place his books are founded and now lives on Jersey, has 21 Sunday Times No.1 bestsellers underneath his belt and offered over 23 million copies international.

His Roy Grace collection has additionally been made right into a tv display staring John Simm, with the 5th collection having simply been aired and a 6th in manufacturing.

Her Majesty has made no secret of being a fan, having named James as her favorite crime creator.

The two have based an not likely however company friendship over time, with the Queen visiting the set of ‘Grace’ in 2021 and James turning into a devoted supporter of her 200,000-strong on-line ebook membership and charity The Queen’s Reading Room, designed to advertise a love of literature and fervour to toughen literacy.

James, who stated he was once ‘moved to tears’ through her nomination of Grace as her favorite detective on account of the novels’ ‘lovely terrifying’ storylines and the hero’s tragic non-public existence, stated: ‘It’s a decade since I came upon Queen Camilla is my No.1 fan and we have since constructed up an excellent rapport.

James, who was once born and taken up in Sussex the place his books are founded and now lives on Jersey, has 21 Sunday Times No.1 bestsellers underneath his belt and offered over 23 million copies international. Camilla and the writer pictured in 2021

John Simm as DS Roy Grace and Richie Campbell as DS Branson in ‘Grace – Dead Simple’ the TV display

Fortunately no-one might be extra delighted to search out themselves taking a number one function in their very own royal whodunit than Her Majesty The Queen (pictured in March)

‘She requested me after I would possibly set a Roy Grace novel in London … and the seed was once sown. Where higher in London than Buckingham Palace?

‘It has been probably the most interesting analysis I’ve ever completed, finding out concerning the interior workings of the Royal Household and the Palace.’

James added: ‘I came up with an idea, which I ran by Her Majesty – and she loved it. Throughout the writing of the novel, during which I’ve completed intensive behind-the-scenes analysis on the Palace, I’ve gained priceless insights from participants of the Royal Household, together with Her Majesty herself.

‘The story begins with Queen Camilla travelling on the Royal Train to Brighton to begin a tour of hospices along the South Coast, but the train is derailed in a tunnel just north of the city. As she and her entourage emerge, a shot rings out and a member of the Royal Household is killed.

‘Detective Superintendent Roy Grace takes charge of the investigation, which is being treated by everyone – except him – as an assassination attempt on The Queen. But Roy thinks there is something else going on. A second killing, this time inside the Palace, indicates he might be right . . .’

He additionally printed that the plot centres round a conspiracy ‘deep in the Royal Household’ to benefit from the present – actual existence – construction works happening there, a ten-year renovation programme of all 375 rooms.

‘The conspirators are stealing items from the Royal Collection, 64,000 priceless pieces that have been moved into temporary storage, and are selling them to foreign buyers on the dark web,’ he added.

Buckingham Palace declined to remark, even though aides wired that writers had lengthy been presented get admission to for analysis functions and ‘The Hawk is Dead’ was once now not counseled through the royal family.

Others additionally wryly famous the previous adage that ‘any resemblance to personas residing… or useless… is solely coincidental’.