Ebook {Epub PDF} The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey

In , over twenty years since Wobble to Death, after fourteen historical mysteries and numerous short stories, Peter Lovesey decided the time had come to write a contemporary crime novel. Ironically the title of the first book in this (unplanned) series featuring Detective Superintendent Peter . In Reverse Chronological Sequence Of Publication: Diamond And The Eye The Finisher Killing With Confetti Bertie: The Complete Prince Of Wales Mysteries Beau Death Another One Goes Tonight Down Among The Dead Men The Stone Wife The Tooth Tattoo Cop To Corpse Stagestruck Skeleton Hill The. So glad I have discovered Peter Lovesey and his Peter Diamond books. I was put off initially as I thought it was the dreadful TV series, but no resemblance at all. Peter Diamond is literally a gem. Proper detective fiction, no gratuitous gore, sex of swearing, just great characterisation and plot.

In Reverse Chronological Sequence Of Publication: Diamond And The Eye The Finisher Killing With Confetti Bertie: The Complete Prince Of Wales Mysteries Beau Death Another One Goes Tonight Down Among The Dead Men The Stone Wife The Tooth Tattoo Cop To Corpse Stagestruck Skeleton Hill The. A lifelong devotee of detective novels, I somehow missed Peter Lovesey, a British master of the genere who has won most of the top mystery writing awards in the U.S. and U.K. Lovesey's magnum opus is a long-running series featuring Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond, a working man's Sherlock Holmes with a dogged, brilliantly imaginative way of getting to the truth about some of the most. Doubleday inaugurates their ``Perfect Crime'' imprint with a body in a lake, soon identified as former soap-opera actress Gerry Snoo. Chief Superintendent Peter Diamond, charged with but recently absolved of malicious interrogation techniques, focuses on the victim's husband, university professor Greg Jackman, a local hero for saving young Matt Didrikson from drowning in the weir.

The Last Detective is the first novel I have read by Mr Lovesey. It concerns the police investigation lead by Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond into the assumed murder of an unknown woman found floating in a lake. Murder is assumed because she is naked and her clothes are missing but there is no obvious cause of death. The titular character, Peter Diamond, was said to be “The Last Detective”, one who used his wits, logic, and skills as an interrogator to solve crimes rather than falling back on all of that scientific stuff that the laboratory staff produced after analysis. Top-form Lovesey. Doubleday inaugurates their ``Perfect Crime'' imprint with a body in a lake, soon identified as former soap-opera actress Gerry Snoo. Chief Superintendent Peter Diamond, charged with but recently absolved of malicious interrogation techniques, focuses on the victim's husband, university professor Greg Jackman, a local hero for.