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Learn moreDetective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective: a genuine gumshoe, committed to door stopping and deduction rather than fancy computer gadgetry.
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 puzzle of truant choirboys, teddy bears, a black Mercedes, and Jane Austen memorabilia, Diamond persists, even after the powers-that-be have decided there's enough evidence to make a conviction.
Peter Lovesey, the author of more than thirty highly praised mystery novels, has won the British Crime Writers’ Association Silver and Gold Dagger awards as well as the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement and the Strand Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. In the United States, he has received Edgar and Dilys nominations, an Anthony Award and a Macavity Award, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, among others. In 2018, he was named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master.
Simon Prebble has worked extensively on British and American television as both actor and narrator.
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“A bravura performance…Slyly paced, marbled with surprise, and in the end, strangely affecting.”
“Not only a good story but a compelling one.”
“Thickly textured, amusing, unpredictably mixing puzzle and procedural…One of the best.”
“A treasure.”
“Witty…One surprise after another.”
“Top-form Lovesey.”
“Witty…A perfectly realized murder mystery.”
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