Description: Peter Diamond tracks a serial executioner targeting couples.
Review Quotes: Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement Recipient
Mystery Writers of America 2018 Grandmaster
--The New York Times Book Review "Lovesey's delicate balance of humor and suspense [is] one of the delights of contemporary crime fiction."
--Wall Street Journal "Lovesey continues to excel, with clever plotted mysteries filled with detailed behind-the-scenes police work."
--Library Journal, Starred Review
"Lovesey deftly blends suspense and humor in this excellent ninth whodunit to feature Peter Diamond . . . This classic series is still going strong."
--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Lovesey, winner of many honors, including a Gold Dagger Award, should be on every British mystery lover's short list, and this is a fine place to start."
--Rocky Mountain News "Lovesey has cloaked the classic 'puzzle' mystery in a fully realized world of coppers and local landmarks . . . Masterful."
--Houston Chronicle 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