Peter Lovesey, Author Doubleday Books $18.5 (331p) ISBN 978-0-385-42114-0
Irascible, corpulent, cynical Chief Superintendent Peter Diamond of the Avon and Somerset murder squad attributes Britain's decline as a world power to the abolition of capital punishment in 1964. Spurning computer gadgetry, he sticks to common...
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Peter Lovesey. Crippen & Landru, $20 trade paper (236p) ISBN 978-1-936363-36-0
First published in the U.K. in 1994, this first U.S. edition gathers 18 superb mystery stories by MWA Grand Master Lovesey (the Peter Diamond series). While “The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown” may seem to follow a traditional path, Lovesey quietly sets
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Peter Lovesey, Author Soho Press $23 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56947-227-9
Wielding the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement he recently won from the British Crime Writers, Lovesey slashes his way through the overgrown shrubbery of the rural British cozy. The result is an extremely clever, exquisitely written story of a
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Peter Lovesey, Author Mysterious Press $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-645-5
The Last Detective (1992) inaugurated this series with a bang. It was followed by Diamond Solitaire (1993) and 1995's Edgar-nominated The Summons. With this fourth installment, veteran English author Lovesey gives us his laconic Bath policeman Peter
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Peter Lovesey, Author Mysterious Press $22.5 (374p) ISBN 978-0-89296-669-1
For long stretches of the narrative, Bath's most cantankerous copper, outsized Peter Diamond, barely registers in the action as he investigates two deaths: a lonely old farmer sticks a shotgun under his chin and fires; and, at a wild party, a girl...
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Peter Lovesey, Author Mysterious Press $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-89296-551-9
A resourceful convict's escape from a prison dubbed ``the British Alcatraz'' launches Peter Diamond's third case (after Diamond Solitaire). Once out of Albany Prison, John Mountjoy kidnaps the Assistant Chief Constable's daughter in order to force...
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Peter Lovesey, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-89296-535-9
Lovesey brings back Peter Diamond, the likable, pudgy London copper introduced in 1991's sparkling and precisely plotted The Last Detective . Stripped of his rank, Diamond is working as a Harrods' rent-a-cop--until a young Japanese girl is found...
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Peter Lovesey, Author Mysterious Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-550-2
Lovesey's third spirited mystery to feature Edward VII, Prince of Wales, as a dogged, often fatuous but ever-successful amateur sleuth (Bertie and the Tinman) finds the royal in Paris in 1891. There, Bertie is discreetly enjoying the City of Light's
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Peter Lovesey, Author . Soho $24 (343p) ISBN 978-1-56947-291-0
Lovesey more than clears the impressive hurdle he creates for himself in his seventh Peter Diamond mystery (after 2000's The Vault). The series enters new territory when Diamond responds to a fresh crime scene only to discover that the murder...
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Peter Lovesey, Author Mysterious Press $0 (204p) ISBN 978-0-89296-363-8
A baker's dozen of Lovesey's mysteries have secured his reputation. Never, however, has the author's wizardry been so effective as in this tale of the duped and the duper, set in post-war London. Rosie Bell and Antonia Ashton meet by chance, years...
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Peter Lovesey, Author Mysterious Press $15.45 (216p) ISBN 978-0-89296-194-8
When Theo Sinclair was nine years old, in 1943, he fell in love with a girl of 20 named Barbara Lockwood, who killed herself. Now it's 1964, and Theo is teaching undergraduate history courses at the University of Reading, England. He's only 29, but...
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Peter Lovesey, Author Soho Crime $24 (324p) ISBN 978-1-56947-490-7
Lovesey's second novel starring Chichester CID inspector Henrietta \x93Hen\x94 Mallin (after 2005's The Circle) provides further proof that the CWA Diamond Dagger winner has no peer in presenting a traditional mystery, with all the clues hiding in...
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Peter Lovesey, Author Soho Press $23 (331p) ISBN 978-1-56947-208-8
Set in 1990s Bath, England (to call the setting modern-day would be misleading, given the moldy ambiance), Lovesey's latest police proceduralDfeaturing his best-known ""copper,"" the oversized and grumpy Peter DiamondDdeftly blends Mary Shelley's...
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Peter Lovesey, Author Mysterious Press $25 (208p) ISBN 978-0-89296-399-7
When a killer stalks a dinner-and-gameshooting party on an English country estate, the corpses drop like pheasants. High-living Albert Edward (``Bertie''), Prince of Wales, who made his detective debut in Lovesey's Bertie and the Tinman , is the...
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Peter Lovesey, Author . Soho Crime $23 (316p) ISBN 978-1-56947-457-0
British author Lovesey deftly blends suspense and humor in his excellent ninth whodunit to feature Peter Diamond (after 2004's The House Sitter
). Diamond, a detective superintendent in Bath, though still traumatized by the murder of his wife,...
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Peter Lovesey, Author . Soho $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56947-392-4
Inspector Henrietta "Hen" Mallin, an ingenious and acerbic sleuth who played a supporting role in Lovesey's Peter Diamond novel The House Sitter
(2003), proves herself fully capable of carrying a story on her own when she takes over a...
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Peter Lovesey, Author . Soho $25 (392p) ISBN 978-1-56947-326-9
In his eighth Inspector Diamond mystery (after 2002's Diamond Dust), Lovesey demonstrates, lest anyone doubt, how richly he deserves the British Crime Writers Association's Lifetime Achievement award. It's been about a year since...
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Edited by Martin Edwards. Crippen & Landru, $19 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-936363-19-3
This superior tribute anthology boasts an impressive roster of British talent, including authors Catherine Aird and Andrew Taylor. Some of the 19 original short stories (and one sonnet) make good use of Lovesey’s own creations, such as Kate Ellis’s “
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Peter Lovesey, Author . Soho Crime $24 (326p) ISBN 978-1-56947-598-0
Silver Dagger Award–winner Lovesey's 10th Peter Diamond investigation (after 2007's The Secret Hangman
) may offer a less intricate plot and more procedural work than usual, but Diamond remains one of the most realistic and human of...
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Peter Lovesey, Author Crippen & Landru Publishers $17 (235p) ISBN 978-1-932009-73-6
Crippen and Landru's third collection of Lovesey's short mysteries is another triumph that brilliantly demonstrates the British author's range and wit. Lovesey, whose recent novels have been the superb fair-play puzzlers featuring Peter Diamond and...
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Peter Lovesey. Soho Crime, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56947-947-6
At the start of Lovesey's superb 11th mystery featuring Det. Supt. Peter Diamond (after 2009's Skeleton Hill), pop singer–turned–actress Clarion Calhoun collapses on stage at Bath's Theatre Royal, the victim of some chemical preparation that...
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Peter Lovesey. Soho Crime, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61695-078-1
Who’s gunning for beat cops? That’s the frantic question Peter Diamond must try to answer in British author Lovesey’s superlative 12th novel featuring the irascible chief superintendent (after 2011’s Stagestruck). The so-called Somerset Sniper has...
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Peter Lovesey. Soho Crime, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61695-230-3
In the prologue, set in 2005, to Lovesey’s excellent 13th Peter Diamond whodunit (after 2012’s Cop to Corpse), a young Asian woman who appears to be a music student stops violist Mel Farran in the street after a concert at London’s Royal Festival...
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Peter Lovesey. Soho Crime, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-61695-393-5
A crime committed at an auction house in Bath propels Diamond Dagger Award winner Lovesey’s so-so 14th whodunit starring irascible but endearing Chief Supt. Peter Diamond (after 2013’s The Tooth Tattoo). The bidding has become heated for a stone...
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Peter Lovesey. Soho Crime, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-616956-26-4
In Lovesey’s less-than-inspired 15th Peter Diamond whodunit (after 2014’s The Stone Wife), the chief superintendent’s annoying and clueless boss, Asst. Chief Constable Georgina Dallymore, asks him to partner with her on a sensitive internal...
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Peter Lovesey. Soho Crime, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-61695-758-2
Edgar-finalist Lovesey’s superior 16th whodunit featuring Det. Supt. Peter Diamond (after 2015’s Down Among the Dead Men) offers fair play fans a delightfully clever puzzle that toys with their expectations. Diamond, the irascible head of Bath’s CID,
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Peter Lovesey. Severn, $29.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8612-5
At the start of Lovesey’s gripping thriller, first published in 1986 under his Peter Lear alias, Rudolf Hess, the Deputy Führer of the Third Reich, parachutes into Scotland on a one-man peace mission on May 10, 1941. Flash forward to 1984, a few...
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Peter Lovesey. Soho Crime, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-61695-905-0
Det. Supt. Peter Diamond has a very cold case to crack in Edgar-finalist Lovesey’s fine 17th novel featuring the Bath police detective (after 2016’s Another One Goes Tonight). The demolition of a condemned house reveals a gruesome find in the attic:
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Peter Lovesey. Soho Crime, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64129-059-3
Edgar finalist Lovesey tries the patience of whodunit fans by delaying the murder for much of his tricky 18th novel featuring Bath CID Supt. Peter Diamond (after 2017’s Beau Death). When Deputy Chief Const. George Brace learns that the father of his
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Peter Lovesey. Soho Crime, $27.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-64129-181-1
MWA Grand Master Lovesey’s masterly, atmospheric 19th investigation for Bath, England, Det. Supt. Peter Diamond (after 2019’s Killing with Confetti) finds primary school teacher Maeve Kelly in training for a charity half-marathon that’s months away.
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Peter Lovesey. Soho Crime, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64129-312-9
At the start of MWA Grandmaster Lovesey’s entertaining, often amusing 20th Peter Diamond investigation (after 2020’s The Finisher), the Bath, England, detective superintendent is annoyed to be accosted at a pub by private eye Johnny Getz (his...
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Peter Lovesey. Soho Crime, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-64129-361-7
The 16 dazzling selections in this inviting collection from MWA Grand Master Lovesey (the Peter Diamond series) range from his first published story, “The Bathroom” (1973), to three new ones. In one of these three, “And the Band Played On,” a boy...
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Peter Lovesey. Soho Crime, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64129-470-6
In MWA Grandmaster Lovesey’s superior 21st Peter Diamond investigation (after 2021’s Diamond and the Eye), Bath Superintendent Diamond’s officious and image-conscious boss, Asst. Chief Constable Georgina Dallymore, tells him it’s time for him to...
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Peter Lovesey. Soho Crime, $28.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-64129-615-1
Lovesey (Showstopper) concludes his long-running series featuring Bath detective Peter Diamond with a bang, delivering an ingenious fair-play whodunit set in the small English village of Baskerville as the annual harvest festival approaches. While...
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