PREPARE for a thriller at the Mayflower next week!

Following the nationwide success of The Perfect Murder last year, Dead Simple – Peter James’ all-time best-selling novel will be the second claustrophobically thrilling stage adaptation in conjunction with producer Joshua Andrews.

A host of household names make up the cast including: Tina Hobley (Holby City) as Ashley Harper, Jamie Lomas (EastEnders, Hollyoaks) as Michael Harrison, Gray O’ Brien (Coronation Street) as Detective Roy Grace, Rik Makarem (Emmerdale, Torchwood) in the role of Mark Warren and Michael McKell (Doctors, Emmerdale) as Bradley Cunningham.

Dead Simple runs at Mayflower Theatre from April 28 – May 2.

Michael Harrison thinks he has it all; great career, good friends and a beautiful fiancée.

But when his stag night prank goes horribly wrong, Michael finds himself alone and staring death in the face.

As time runs out and the terror grows, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace tries to solve his mysterious disappearance, but begins to fear that Michael will never be found in time.

Olivier Award winner Ian Talbot directs an all-star cast led by Tina Hobley who returns to the stage having graced TV screens for the last 12 years as ward sister Chrissie Williams in the BBC 1’s Holby City as well as roles in Coronation Street and Harbour Lights before that and was seen earlier this year in Celebrity Master Chef.

She currently presents the prime time Sunday morning programme on Smooth FM.

Award-winning TV heartthrob, Jamie Lomas has starred for the last year in Eastenders as the murderous Jake Stone and before that played bad boy Warren Fox for five years in Channel 4’s Hollyoaks.

And Gray O’Brien, the award-winning star of Coronation Street, TV series Titanic, Peak Practice and Casualty as well as Sleuth in the West End, will follow up his critically acclaimed performance in The Perfect Murder by playing the famous Detective Roy Grace in this gripping, chilling, thriller that has all the classic suspense, twists and turns of a best-selling Peter James novel.

Peter James has gone straight in at No: 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller charts seven times in the last four years with his Roy Grace series.

The international bestselling crime thriller novelist has won numerous awards both in the UK and in the USA and In 2012 Peter won the coveted US Barry Award for Best British Crime Thriller.

He has sold over 15 million books of his Roy Grace series, and is published in 36 languages.

Dead Simple has itself sold over two million copies around the word and has been a No.1 best seller in the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Holland and Russia.

Tickets from Mayflower Theatre Box Office tel: 02380 711811 or online at mayflower.org.uk. Ovation Restaurant bookings: 023 8071 1833.