Description: Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is confronted with a crime that hits too close to home.
Review Quotes: Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement Recipient
Mystery Writers of America 2018 Grandmaster
--The New York Times Book Review "Diamond Dust is a gem. It has tension, emotion and a smorgasbord of red herrings."
--Associated Press "Christie level plotting."
--Time Out
"Lovesey's writing is lucid and succinct, and he is a consummate story-teller."
--Colin Dexter, CWA Diamond Dagger-winning author of the Inspector Morse series "Lovesey plots as well as he creates characters or turns an elegant phrase. Nothing is what it seems . . . He's so good it's hard to pin a label on him."
--Denver Post "Lovesey will be hard-pressed to surpass this current effort for its combination of the puzzle and the personal, but based on his current achievement, it would be no great surprise if he did."
--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Fully dimensional characters, juicy plotting, and more twists than the Hampton Court maze."
--Kirkus Reviews "Diamond Dust is a jewel of many intricate facets."
--January Magazine "This latest entry in the Peter Diamond series is among the best and in many ways, the most moving . . . an expertly plotted novel."
--Reviewing the Evidence Praise for The Peter Diamond series "Peter Diamond is impatient, belligerent, cunning, insightful, foul, laugh-out-loud funny . . . A superb series."
--Louise Penny "I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time--you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book."
--Sara Paretsky "What'll it be today? A knotty puzzle mystery? A fast-paced police procedural? Something more high-toned, with a bit of wit? With the British author Peter Lovesey, there's no need to make those agonizing decisions, because his books have it all."
--The New York Times Book Review "Mr. Lovesey's narrative is swift, but he takes time out for local color and abundant humor, the latter springing from the book's quirky characters . . . Lovesey is a wizard at mixing character-driven comedy with realistic-to-grim suspense. And in a writing career spanning four decades, he has created a stylish and varied body of work."
--The Wall Street Journal "Next to Jane Austen, Peter Lovesey is the writer the tourist board of Bath, England, extols most proudly . . . The enduring draw of the Peter Diamond books derives both from the beguiling Bath cityscape and the brusque character of Diamond himself."
--NPR