Book description
Battle and burial are built into the history of Lansdown Hill, so it is
no great shock when part of a skeleton is unearthed there. But Peter
Diamond, Bath's Head of CID, can't ignore the fresh corpse found close
to the folly known as Beckford's Tower. The hill becomes the setting for
one of the most puzzling cases he has investigated, involving golf,
horseracing, Civil War re-enactment and the Cyrillic alphabet.
Inevitably, Diamond butts heads with the group of vigilantes who call
themselves the Lansdown Society, discovering in the process that his
boss Georgina is a member. She resolves to sideline Diamond by sending
him to Bristol and handing the skeleton investigation to his deputy,
Keith Halliwell. Fortunately matters don't pan out as Georgina plans…
Lovesey has an extraordinary talent for picking up the conventions of
the classic English detective novel and delivering them with an entirely
contemporary twist Val McDermid No-one has done this kind of thing
better since Dorothy L. Sayers ... A must for crime buffs Mail on Sunday
Peter Lovesey's novels and short stories have won him awards all over
the world, including the Gold, Silver and Cartier Diamond Daggers of the
Crime Writers' Association, of which he was Chairman in 1991-2. He also
recently won the CWA Short Story Dagger. He lives in Chichester.
