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The False Inspector Dew

Peter Lovesey

Alma Webster's passionate love affair with dentist Walter Baranov leads to the murder of his wife, the couple's journey to the United States, and a shioard murder that Walter, having hidden his identity under the alias Inspector Dew, ...

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Published: Jul 2003

The Summons

Peter Lovesey

Unemployed British ex-cop Peter Diamond is rousted from his bed by police for an emergency job only he can handle. John Mountjoy, a woman-hating murderer Diamond arrested four years ago has broken out of prison, taken the assistant ch...

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Published: Jun 2004

Beau Death (A Detective Peter Diamond...

Peter Lovesey

Peter Diamond, British detective extraordinaire, must dig deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous) icons: Richard "Beau" Nash, who might be the victim of a centuries old mur...

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Published: Oct 2018

Bertie and the Seven Bodies (A Prince...

Peter Lovesey

The second entry of the Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England.Bertie, Prince of Wales, is delighted to be invited ...

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Published: Feb 2020

The Last Detective (A Detective Peter...

Peter Lovesey

Introduction by Louise PennyA woman's body has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol.  In order to solve the mystery of the "Lady in the Lake,"  Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must locate t...

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Published: Aug 2014

Skeleton Hill: An Inspector Peter Dia...

Peter Lovesey

"Nobody can write the modern traditional detective novel as perfectly as Lovesey."—The Denver Post"A special treat."—The New York Times Book ReviewOn Lansdown Hill near Bath, a battle between Roundheads and Cav...

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Published: Sep 2010

The Circle (Soho Crime)

Peter Lovesey

This tale of murder and murderously bad prose picks up a character from Peter Lovesey’s Peter Diamond series, Chief Inspector Henrietta "Hen" Mallin. When a vanity-press publisher is killed in a suspicious fire, the me...

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Published: Jun 2006

The House Sitter

Peter Lovesey

'Peter Lovesey loves strong women, cerebral killers and diabolical puzzles-the very ingredients that make The House Sitter one of the most cunning mysteries in his Inspector Diamond series.'-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Rev...

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Published: Jun 2004

Secret Hangman

Peter Lovesey

'A special treat.'-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review'Peter Lovesey has cloaked the classic puzzle' mystery in a fully realized world of coppers and local landmarks.'-Houston Chronicle'Lovesey . . . should be on every Brit...

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Published: Apr 2008

Bloodhounds (Soho Crime)

Peter Lovesey

'Peter Lovesey tosses off a real brain-banger in Bloodhounds, the fourth book in a challenging series. . . . I am mad for these pyrotechnic teasers, and this one had my head spinning.'-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review'A ...

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Published: Dec 2004

Diamond Solitaire

Peter Lovesey

One time police detective Peter Diamond loses his job as a security guard when he fails to spot a small Japanese child hiding in the furniture department of Harrods. But Diamond is unable to forget the frightened eyes of the silent li...

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Published: Jun 2002

Upon a Dark Night (Peter Diamond Myst...

Peter Lovesey

'The threads of Peter Lovesey's new Peter Diamond mystery, Upon a Dark Night, twist up so neatly they make a perfect hangman's noose-another triumph of plotting from this master of the classic puzzle form.'-Marilyn Stasio, The New Yor...

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Published: Jun 2005

On the Edge

Peter Lovesey

Soon after World War II, two former co-workers in the operations room of a Royal Air Force Squadron meet in the street. Their lives have diverged dramatically but each wants to get rid of her husband. And so a mutual assistance pact i...

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Published: Oct 2002

The Stone Wife (A Detective Peter Dia...

Peter Lovesey

Book 14 in the Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond series, one of Soho's bestselling and most critically acclaimed series, this time including a Chauceresque twist. At a Bath auction house, a large slab of carved stone is up for s...

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Published: Aug 2015

Abracadaver

Peter Lovesey

"Here's another of those delightful Victorian mysteries, featuring Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray of the Yard. This one deals with peculiar accidents in various music halls, mishaps of a kind that would ruin a performer's...

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Published: Jun 2009

Another One Goes Tonight (A Detective...

Peter Lovesey

In the sixteenth entry of Peter Lovesey's timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond wrestles with his own moral compass, struggling to protect police prestige while debating what it means to do right by a serial killer. En ro...

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Published: Jul 2017

Bertie and the Tinman (A Prince of Wa...

Peter Lovesey

Introducing Victorian England's most illustrious amateur sleuth (if not necessarily its most adept): Bertie, Prince of Wales, who can't help but poke his royal nose into a suspicious-sounding circumstance.Bertie, Prince of Wales and f...

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Published: Jan 2020

Cop to Corpse (Peter Diamond)

Peter Lovesey

Book 12 in the Peter Diamond series from the CWA Gold, Silver, and Diamond Dagger-winning master of fair play crime fiction, Peter Lovesey.PC Harry Trasker is the third policeman in the Bath area to be shot dead in less than twelve ...

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Published: Apr 2013

Diamond and the Eye (A Detective Pete...

Peter Lovesey

A Bath antiques dealer has disappeared, and detective Peter Diamond has been saddled with the "help" of a hardboiled Philip Marlowe wannabe private investigator in cracking the case. MWA Grand Master Peter Lovesey's 20th ins...

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Published: Sep 2022

Down Among the Dead Men (A Detective ...

Peter Lovesey

Peter Diamond takes a dive down among the dead men to solve a seven-year-old murder case in the latest installment of Peter Lovesey's classic procedural series.In a Sussex town on the south coast of England, a widely disliked art teac...

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Published: Jun 2016

Killing with Confetti

Peter Lovesey

Peter Lovesey, MWA Grand Master and titan of the English detective novel, returns readers to Bath with the eighteenth mystery in his critically acclaimed Peter Diamond series. As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his ...

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Published: Jul 2020

Stagestruck: A Peter Diamond Investig...

Peter Lovesey

Pop diva, Clarion Calhoun, has packed the house with a celebrity appearance in Bath's Theatre Royal production of I Am a Camera.  But within moments of her much-anticipated onstage appearance, she's pulled out of character as she scr...

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Published: Jun 2012

The Finisher (A Detective Peter Diamo...

Peter Lovesey

On the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first novel, Peter Lovesey, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and titan of the British detective novel, returns to the subject of his very first mystery—running. Through a...

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Published: Jul 2021

The Last Detective: Introducing Detec...

Peter Lovesey

A nude female corpse has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol.  In order to solve the mystery of the "Lady in the Lake,"  Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must locate two missing letters att...

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Published: May 2011

The Tooth Tattoo

Peter Lovesey

Peter Diamond, head of the Criminal Investigation Division in scenic Bath, England, is investigating the murder of a young woman whose body has been found in the canal, the only clue to her identity a tattoo of a music note on one...

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Published: May 2014

Waxwork: A Sergeant Cribb Investigati...

Peter Lovesey

Praise for the Sergeant Cribb Series:"Delightful Victorian mysteries. . . . [A] fine picture of vice, good mystery plotting, and fun."—San Francisco Chronicle"Lively and well-plotted."—The New York TimesBeautif...

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Published: Jun 2010

Wobble to Death

Peter Lovesey

In 1879, race walking competitions, known as "wobbles," were all the rage. The death of a contender, followed by a second murder, introduces London's no-nonsence cop Sergeant Cribb who had a penchant for extreme sports.

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Published: Jul 2015

The Vault

Peter Lovesey

Curmudgeonly Chief Superintendent Peter Diamond (The Last Detective, Bloodhounds, The Summons) is once again suffering fools (to which category he currently consigns Americans, antiques enthusiasts, and his immediate superiors) none...

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Published: Jul 2003

A Case of Spirits: A Sergeant Cribb I...

Peter Lovesey

Praise for the Sergeant Cribb series:'Delightful Victorian mysteries, featuring Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray of the Yard. . . . [A] fine picture of period vice, good mystery plotting, and fun.'-San Francisco Chronicle'These ...

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Published: Sep 2009

Bertie and the Crime of Passion (A Pr...

Peter Lovesey

The third and final entry of the Bertie Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England.Bertie, amateur sleuth and the Crown Prince ...

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Published: Apr 2006
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