Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective: a genuine gumshoe, committed to door stopping and deduction rather than fancy computer gadgetry.
So when the naked body of a woman is found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath with no one willing to identify her, no marks and no murder weapon, his sleuthing abilities are tested to the
limit. Struggling with a jigsaw puzzle of truant choirboys, teddy bears, a black Mercedes, and Jane Austen memorabilia, Diamond persists, even after the powers-that-be have decided there's enough
evidence to make a conviction.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Witty…A perfectly realized murder mystery.” —Wall Street Journal
“A bravura performance…Slyly paced, marbled with
surprise, and in the end, strangely affecting.” —New York Times Book Review
“Thickly textured, amusing, unpredictably mixing
puzzle and procedural…One of the best.” —Los Angeles Times
“Not only a good story but a compelling one.” —Boston Globe
Peter Lovesey (1936–2025) wrote more than thirty highly praised mystery novels, including the Peter Diamond mysteries, the Sergeant Cribb historical mysteries, and the Bertie
Prince of Wales novels. His book have won the British Crime Writers’ Association Silver and Gold Dagger awards, the Cartier Diamond Dagger, the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, the Diamond
Dagger for Lifetime Achievement, and the Strand Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award. In the United States, his books won an Anthony Award, a Macavity Award, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award,
among others. He was named a Grand Master of the Swedish Academy of Detection and a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master.
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Publisher:
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Runtime:
11.45
ISBN:
9781538459393
Audience:
Adult
Language:
English
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