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1 review
Peter Lovesey

Soho Constable, 2008

Unique Subject - Interesting Times
I am very glad to have found Peter Lovesey. This is the second book in his Victorian series starring Sergeant Cribb and the long suffering Constable Thackery. Mr. Lovesey recreates the Victorian atmosphere very accurately. And this is a new form of English cozy crime. Mr. Lovesey seems to want to delve into the Victorian sports era. This particular book is about "knuckle fighting" without the ...

Upon a Dark Night (Peter Diamond Mystery)

8 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Crime, 2005

One of my favorites
UPON A DARK NIGHT is one of my favorites in the Peter Diamond series. In spite of his gruff, rather unloveable personality, Peter Diamond has an amazing ability to tease out the link between two apparently unrelated deaths, a farmer, who apparently killed himself with a shotgun and a woman, who jumped/fell off of the roof of a building. While everyone else in the department figures, including ...

The Secret Hangman (Peter Diamond Investigation)

13 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Crime, 2008

exciting Diamond English police procedural
Bath Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond still grieves the death of his wife even as he feels some guilt over her being murdered. He currently pretends to not be excited over a secret admirer sending him notes, but inside he is thrilled and albeit a shade more guilt. On the job, Diamond investigates the public park hanging death murder of waitress Delia Williamson, a mother of two young ...

The Headhunters: An Inspector Hen Mallin Investigation

6 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Crime, 2008

unique English police procedural
Near Selsey, Jo Stevens saw what she thought was a beached dolphin amongst the trash that came ashore on the beach. However, she got closer and realized she found a half naked woman dead amidst the seaweed and garbage. Chichester CID Inspector Henrietta "Hen" Mallin and her team lead the official inquiry starting with who she is and whether her death was an accident or a homicide. However, ...

Rough Cider (Soho Crime)

5 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Crime, 2003

Mystery at its best
Peter Lovesey is one of my (and my husband's) favorite writers. In ROUGH CIDER he proves again what a marvelous storyteller he is. Being a mystery writer, I appreciate the skill it takes to weave a good plot. We want more stories, Peter!

Bloodhounds (Soho Crime)

9 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Crime, 2004

No one writing today does locked room mysteries as good as P
The Bloodhounds are a weird mystery fan group who meet in strange places like crypts to hold discussions. Just prior to tonight's meeting Milo finds a rare Penny Black stamp inside a John Dickson Carr novel; the stamp was recently stolen from the Postal Museum. Not long afterward, Milo is found dead in his locked riverboat and the stamp is missing. The killer sends riddles to the police and ...

Diamond Solitaire

5 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Crime, 2002

I Love Peter Diamond.
I didn't think that I'd find a more likeable detective than Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' Bill Slider, but Peter Diamond is right up there. He's quirky, funny and just tough enough. And Lovesey's other characterizations are just as good. In this book we have a Janpanese Sumo wrestler that engages Diamond to help find a small autistic Japanese girl. She has been abducted from her group home in ...

Bertie And the Crime of Passion (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries) (Prince of Wales Mystery)
Peter Lovesey

Felony & Mayhem, 2007

Bertie (the future King Edward VII) has a princely appetite for tasty morsels of all kinds. With glorious food and glamorous women equally appealing, it's not surprising that he visits Paris every year, with a modest retinue of some 30 faithful servants. The year 1889, however, marks his most eventful trip. First, he is he introduced to the can-can - that deliciously vulgar new sensation in which he takes, of course, a purely scholarly ...

The Circle (Soho Crime)

5 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Crime, 2006

excellent police procedural
The police investigate the fiery murder of unpopular publisher Edgar Blacker, who died following a talk he gave to the Chichester Writers' Circle, an unpublished writers' group. The motive seems obvious as Blacker conned the wannabes into investing in a doomed vanity press con making one of the group most likely the arsonist-killer. The prime suspect is the group's chair Maurice McDade as ...

Wobble to Death

3 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Constable, 2008

A very unusual venue for a murder
Lovesey puts Cribb and Thackery on the trail of a killer at a long distance walk race. An unusual setting for a murder but then passion and greed aren't very selective emotions. I read this book years ago and just read it again. It is just as good now as it was 15 years ago. Lovesey's attention to detail is excellent - you are fed a lot of information to put the setting into context and you ...

The Last Detective

7 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Crime, 2003

A study in excellence
Peter Lovesey writes the PERFECT blend of credible, fallible, sometimes funny characters. Chief Inspector Peter Diamond is a classic grump who refuses to move into the computer age...or any other age where he would have to rely on more than his eyes and his instincts. In this installment of the Diamond series, which I consider one of his best, Diamond is confounded by his junior officer, the ever ...

Bertie and the Tinman

3 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Mysterious Pr, 1995

Great Victorian Mystery Novel.
The background of the story is based on the true-life romance between Bertie, Prince of Wales and the beautiful Lady Daisy Brooke, Countess of Warwick. The setting is a country-house weekend at the estate of the latter, to which our sleuths have also been invited. Two murders occur, first that of a young servant and then that of a gentleman guest. Dark hints are dropped that many of the ...

Diamond Dust

8 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Crime, 2003

A sparkling introduction (for me) to Lovesy
Peter Lovesey's Peter Diamond mysteries are very happily to my taste. I like Peter Diamond, the kind of person he is, what he stands for in the bigger picture. He reminds me of Ruth Rendell's Chief Inspector Wexford, except that he is a little lest prosperous and a little more philosophical. Or perhaps a better comparison would be with Henning Mankell's Inspector Kurt Wallander. Diamond is a ...

Bertie and the Seven Bodies (Prince of Wales Mysteries)

2 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Felony & Mayhem, 2006

Prince Albert Goes Detecting
This is a hilarious mystery as Prince Albert tries to prove his deductive abilities by finding the culprit who is committing serial murders paced on the Monday's Child rhyme. Of coure, his reasoning is usually way off and part of the fun is watching others deflate his ego with the correct explanation of his deductions. Nevertheless, Bertie shows a penchant for relying on royal privilege to ...

The Summons

4 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Crime, 2004

Lovesey delivers again
Peter Lovesey delivers his usual: great plotting mixed with sly humor and engaging dialogue. If you haven't yet read this master mystery author, start here or with any of his books. You won't be disappointed.

The Verdict of Us All; Stories by the Detection Club for H.R.F. Keating
Peter Lovesey; P.D. James; Colin Dexter

Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2006

Members of London s famed Detection Club have joined together to honor one of their own H.R.F. Keating, historian of the genre, winner of the Gold Dagger (for best novel) and the Diamond Dagger (for Lifetime Achievement), and creator of one of the greatest fictional sleuths, Inspector Ganesh Ghote. The Detection Club was founded in 1930 by Anthony Berkeley. Its first Honorary President was G.K. Chesterton, to be succeeded by such ...

The House Sitter

13 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Crime, 2004

Well Plotted and Well Told
This mystery features excellent characters. The victims are well-developed before they are killed and, as always, Diamond is plenty of fun. The author also draws interesting portraits of the other detectives, Jimmy Barneston and Hen. The ending is impossible to guess and is almost certain to surprise the reader. You really can't beat this mystery for writing quality, plotting, character ...

The Vault

10 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Crime, 2001

Mostly Fine, But Ending Slightly Weak!
For me, just about any Brit mystery/ procedural is worthwhile, and I was not disappointed here. The story's many subplots may not always fit perfectly together, but they add historic and bibliophile interest. When a hand is delivered in a pizza box to the Bath police murder squad, it is determined to be about 15-20 years old, and probably the result of harm done during some excavating and ...

The False Inspector Dew

8 reviews
Peter Lovesey

Soho Crime, 2001

Starring Peter Sellers as Walter
Lovesey often gives the sense his tongue is firmly in his cheek. The False Inspector Dew reads as though it were written in the 40s: the characters are drawn as wry twists on old cliches, sailing along (literally) in their frothy, and quietly funny, quest for love and bungled adventure. The False Inspector is not what he seems (like many of the characters). Like Chance in Being There, Walter is ...

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