

He knew that he was “no Sherlock Holmes,” but “his self-respect as a detective wouldn’t let him walk away” from a vexing case. He even quit the force once because he was unable to adapt to change he was lured back but remained determinedly uninterested in learning new tricks. Though he is sensitive about his appearance, you wouldn’t know it from the way he strides “in warlike mode” through his police department in Bath, England, where the other coppers know not to argue with him when he has his “arms folded and jaw jutting in Churchillian defiance.”ĭiamond, who has become a widower in the course of the series, is an old-fashioned policeman: impatient with forensic delays, hostile to computers, less than fanatical about the proper handling of evidence. Other books by Peter Lovesey Showstopper Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories Diamond and the Eye The Finisher Killing with Confetti Beau Death Another One Goes Tonight Down Among the Dead Men The Stone Wife The Tooth Tattoo Cop to Corpse Skeleton Hill Murder on the Short List The Headhunters The Secret Hangman The Circle The House Sitter Diamond Dust Dead Gorgeous In Suspense The Sedgemoor Strangler & Other Stories of Crime The Secret of Spandau The Reaper The Vault Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose Upon a Dark Night Bloodhounds The Summons The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown & Other Stories Bertie and the Crime of Passion Diamond Solitaire The Last Detective Bertie and the Seven Bodies Bertie and the Tinman Rough Cider Butchers & Other Stories of Crime Keystone The False Inspector Dew Waxwork Swing, Swing Together A Case of Spirits Invitation to a Dynamite Party Mad Hatter’s Holiday Abracadaver The Detective Wore Silk Drawers Wobble to Deathīecome part of a thriving community of successful crime writers with invaluable support, expertise and marketing opportunities for all our members.Chief Superintendent Peter Diamond, the series character created by British author Peter Lovesey 20 years ago, may not much resemble the rugby player he once was-the belly bulging over his belt sees to that-but he still knows how to bull his way through a workplace scrum.

As he tries to find its root in the past, legends come to life and the killer strikes again. And for reasons he can’t understand, he suffers a physical reaction amounting to phobia each time he enters the theatre. Bath, over two hundred years old, steeped in tradition and superstition, is the setting for Peter Diamond’s eleventh case of murder.

