Stagestruck

The Last Detective

By: Peter Lovesey
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

Detective 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... Read more »

Diamond Solitaire

By: Peter Lovesey
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No

One-time police detective Peter Diamond loses his job as a security guard when he fails to spot a small Japanese child hiding in the furniture department of Harrods. Weeks later, she’s still unclaimed; Diamond is unable to forget the frightened eyes of the silent little girl and takes on the challenge of uncovering her identity. Now Diamond is... Read more »

Skeleton Hill

By: Peter Lovesey
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

On Lansdown Hill, near Bath, England, a battle between Roundheads and Cavaliers that took place over 350 years ago is annually reenacted. Two of the reenactors discover a skeleton that is female, headless, and only about twenty years old. One of them, a professor who played a Cavalier, is later found murdered. In the course of his investigation,... Read more »

Stagestruck

By: Peter Lovesey
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

Pop divaClarion Calhoun has packed the house with a celebrity appearance in Bath’sTheatre Royal production of I Am a Camera.But within moments of her much-anticipated onstage appearance, she is pulledout of character as she screams and claws at her face.

Whentainted stage makeup is found to have caused the disfiguring burn, fingers pointto her... Read more »

Cop to Corpse

By: Peter Lovesey
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No

In the small hours of a Sunday morning in the city of Bath, a policeman on beat duty is shot dead by an unseen gunman—the third killing of an officer in Somerset in a matter of weeks. The assassinations are the work of a sniper who seems to be everywhere and nowhere at once, always a step ahead.

The emergency services are summoned. Ambitious to... Read more »

The Tooth Tattoo

By: Peter Lovesey
Narrated by: Clive R. Anderson
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

Peter Diamond, head of Bath CID, takes a city break in Vienna, where his favorite film, The Third Man, was set, but everything goes wrong, and his companion, Paloma, calls a halt to their relationship. Meanwhile, strange things are happening to jobbing musician Mel Farran, who finds himself scouted by methods closer to the spy world than the... Read more »

The Stone Wife

By: Peter Lovesey
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

At an auction house in Bath, England, a large slab of carved stone is upfor sale. At the height of what turns into very competitive bidding, there is aholdup attempt by three masked raiders who are trying to steal the stone. Theyshoot and kill the highest bidder, a professor who has recognized the femalefigure carved in the stone as the Wife of... Read more »