Book description
Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective: 'not some
lad out of police school with a degree in computer studies' but a
genuine gumshoe, given to doorstopping and deduction. 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 of truant choirboys, teddy bears, a black
Mercedes and Jane Austen memorabilia, Diamond persists even when 'the
men in white coats' decide they have enough evidence to make a
conviction. It's just as well: for despite disastrous personal
consequences, and by following the real clues hidden amongst Bath's
historic buildings and intertwined with its literary past, the last
detective exposes the uncomfortable truth . . . A consummate
storyteller Colin Dexter Admirably unpredictable (Lovesey keeps you
guessing until the very end) and entertaining all the way LITERARY
REVIEW Peter Diamond may be my favourite fictional police detective -
perky, dogged and very clever SCOTSMAN More twists and turns than the
Snake Pass, a joy to the last page. YORKSHIRE POST 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 1991-2. He recently won
the CWA Short Story Dagger. He lives in Chichester.
