- Hardcover: 404 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; 1st edition. edition (6 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316725315
- ISBN-13: 978-0316725316
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 14.6 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 577,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Lovesey's writing is lucid and succinct, and he is a consumate story-teller.' Colin Dexter 'Pure joy.' The Scotsman 'Phone-off-the-hook time.' The Independent
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The identification of the woman found murdered on Whiteview Sands poses more questions than it answers. Emma Tysoe was a respected psychologist and an official criminal profiler with several successful cases to her credit. Why was she sun-bathing alone so far from home? How did she get there? Who is the mysterious 'Ken' in her private life? What was the murder weapon? Why did the man who noitce she was dead then completely disappear from the scene? When Peter Diamond is brought into the investigation he sheds some light on these matters - most importantly by discovering that she had been seconded under the greatest secrecy to work on the profile of the person who has assassinated one celebrity and is threatening to kill more. Are these killings connected to Emma's death? Diamond thinks so, but he cannot persuade his colleagues to agree with him, and even he cannot make all the pieces fit the jigsaw he's envisaged.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The House Sitter is the latest Peter Diamond mystery and fans of Peter Lovesey's flawed detective, will not be disappointed. As ever, the Bath locations are skillfully recreated and Lovesey's warmth for the city certainly comes through. The plot, concerning the apparent murder of a psychologist whilst sunbathing on the beach, is well constructed, with plenty of twists to keep the reader wrong-footed. At first it appears that the case isn't going to allow Diamond to take centre stage, with much of the action centred on the south east coast. But that soon changes, and with his usual tact, Diamond once again solves the mystery. For me, one of the high points is his love-hate relationship with his superior office, Georgina Dallimore - their scenes are brilliant.
For fans and those new to Lovesey's work alike, read this book - it's up there with his best. This is an intricate and involving story from a highly skilled crime fiction practitioner. Read it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Count me as one of Peter Lovesey's Yank fans who reads everything he writes. That said, although I enjoyed his latest Peter Diamond mystery, I was less than enthralled with the character of Emma, the profiler whose murder opens the novel. Her sophomoric gushings over a handsome detective, as revealed in personal notes on her laptop, showed her to be shallow, immature, insensitive, and possessed of very little insight. This, in turn, caused me to doubt her skill as a profiler and to wonder why the police thought she was a star in her field. The character, in short, lacked credibility.
Lovesey's development of Peter Diamond's character, on the other hand, was skillful and evocative. Diamond is a flesh-and-blood personality, growing with each book. I expect his next outing to be more to my liking, since the one character in this one that didn't ring true is conveniently dead.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have only recently started reading Peter Lovesey and this is the first one I've read featuring Diamond. This is an excellent story with two distinct strands to it which may or may not be connected. There is also the added interest of the relationship between Hen Mallin from Bognor CID and Diamond. This is well drawn and is not all sweetness and light as might be expected from two such prickly personalities. That Hen Mallin was in this book was a bonus as far as I was concerned as I have read 'The Circle' and 'The Headhunters' where she appears without Diamond, and found her an interesting character. In this book the plotting is excellent and I found it difficult to work out who the murderer was. What I especially liked was that there is very little 'on screen' violence. There is plenty to keep you interested in this story and it is well written. If you want an antidote to all the violent stories out there, then this is one for you.
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