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Bloodhounds by Peter Lovesey
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Peter Diamond Mystery
Winner of the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger, the Barry Award and the Macavity Award. 'Darling, if ever I've met a group of potential murderers anywhere, it's the Bloodhounds.' Thus says one of the members of the Bloodhounds of Bath, a society that meets in a crypt to discuss crime novels. But ...Show more
Cop to Corpse by Peter Lovesey
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Peter Diamond Mystery
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 emergency services are summoned. Ambitious to arrest the Somerset Sniper, the duty inspector, Ken Lockton, seals th ...Show more
Diamond Dust by Peter Lovesey
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Peter Diamond Mystery
Shortlisted for the Barry Award When a woman is shot dead in Bath's Royal Victoria Park, it is Detective Peter Diamond who answers the call first. He is able to identify the victim immediately: his wife, Stephanie. Traumatised and angry for justice, Diamond eventually concedes that he cannot take part i ...Show more
Diamond Solitaire - Detective Peter Diamond Book 2 by Peter Lovesey
$0.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Peter Diamond Mystery Ser.
The second crime story from the award-winning Peter Diamond mystery series, by Peter Lovesey. Peter Diamond, ex-CID and notoriously difficult to work with, is sacked from his latest job as a security guard in Harrods. Doggedly he turns his sleuthing skills to unravelling the mystery of a little Japanes ...Show more
Diamond and the Eye by Peter Lovesey
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Peter Diamond Mystery Ser.
Bath police detective Peter Diamond suffers no fools. Now his nightmare has come to pass: he has to collaborate with the most preposterous kind of fool he can imagine. The self-styled Johnny Getz (his business card proclaims he "Getz Results!") is a private investigator who has been hired to track down ...Show more
Killing with Confetti by Peter Lovesey
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Peter Diamond Mystery Ser.
The eighteenth book in the award-winning Peter Diamond series, from Peter Lovesey. As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his long-term girlfriend, Caroline. The problem is that she's the daughter of notorious crime baron, Joe Irving, who is coming to the end of a prison sentence. And Ben's ...Show more
The Finisher by Peter Lovesey
$54.13 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Peter Diamond Mystery Ser.
On the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first novel, Peter Lovesey, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and titan of the British detective novel, returns to the subject of his very first mystery--running. Through a particularly ill-fated series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly, an elem ...Show more
The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey
$32.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Peter Diamond Mystery #8
Shortlisted for the Barry Award. At first everyone presumes that the woman behind the windbreak is asleep. It is only when the tide comes in, lapping at her feet, that the horrific crime is discovered. The woman is identified as Emma Tysoe, top psychologist and criminal profiler. Bath detective Peter Di ...Show more
The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Peter Diamond Mystery
A woman's naked body is found floating in the weeds of a lake near Bath, by an elderly woman walking her Siamese cats. No-one comes forward to identify her, and no murder weapon is found, but sleuthing is Superintendent Peter Diamond's speciality. A genuine gumshoe, practising door-stopping and deductio ...Show more
The Secret Hangman by Peter Lovesey
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Peter Diamond Mystery #9
Bath detective Peter Diamond is having woman trouble. His boss wants him to find the missing daughter of one of her friends. He is not enthusiastic. A woman calling herself his Secret Admirer wants to arrange a date in a pub. He tries ignoring her. And his colleague, sexy Ingeborg Smith, distracts the m ...Show more
The Stone Wife by Peter Lovesey
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Peter Diamond Mystery
Just as the bidding gets exciting in a Bath auction house, three armed men stage a hold-up and attempt to steal Lot 129, a medieval carving of the Wife of Bath. The highest bidder, appalled to have the prize snatched away, tries to stop them and is shot dead. Peter Diamond, head of the murder squad ...Show more
The Summons by Peter Lovesey
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Peter Diamond Mystery
Winner of the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger and shortlisted for the Edgar Award. The summons comes at night. Two policemen collect Peter Diamond from his West London flat and drive him to Bath. Once head of the murder squad there, he is now out of touch in his retirement, unaware of an audacio ...Show more