- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: ISIS Publishing; Large Print edition edition (Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0753160684
- ISBN-13: 978-0753160688
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,025,635 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
...if so, and you love well written thrillers why not give this author a try?. This one stands alone very happily but if you really want to enjoy Lovesey novels start with earlier Diamond books, Diamond being his trusty, Bath stationed, detective.
The mysteries are set in Bath sometimes straying as far as Bristol and all the regular 'tecs are well drawn and rather lovable. Lovesey REALLY knows this city and each novel offers fascinating chunks of its history, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen the Baths themselves of course. True to form this one involves a piece of Bath's past namely Mary Shelley's creation Frankenstein.These books offer a refreshing change from graphic blood and gore though the police work and investigation is believable. Diamond himself is no muscle honed action hero he is definitely overweight and he 's not one to accept interference from on high either.
Lots of plot, dense with good description and dialogue, excellent stuff. I would LOVE to see a TV series of Diamond cases!
The mysteries are set in Bath sometimes straying as far as Bristol and all the regular 'tecs are well drawn and rather lovable. Lovesey REALLY knows this city and each novel offers fascinating chunks of its history, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen the Baths themselves of course. True to form this one involves a piece of Bath's past namely Mary Shelley's creation Frankenstein.These books offer a refreshing change from graphic blood and gore though the police work and investigation is believable. Diamond himself is no muscle honed action hero he is definitely overweight and he 's not one to accept interference from on high either.
Lots of plot, dense with good description and dialogue, excellent stuff. I would LOVE to see a TV series of Diamond cases!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read a few of Peter Lovesey's Peter Diamond mysteries and this is one of the best I've read so far. Bones are discovered in a vault under the Roman Baths and what follows is an intricate and fascinating story involving Mary Shelley's novel `Frankenstein' and the history of Bath. There are interesting characters - eccentric antique dealers, a visiting English Literature professor from the USA, a man who runs a touring puppet theatre, a persistent newspaper reporter who wants to join the police and of course Peter Diamond himself.
I loved the background to the book - Bath and its environs - and the writing style is simple and straightforward so that the reader can concentrate on the story and the characters. All the violence happens off the page - which makes a pleasant change. If you have not read any books by this author then this would be a good one to start with. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys books by authors such as Martin Edwards, Priscilla Masters or Simon Brett.
I loved the background to the book - Bath and its environs - and the writing style is simple and straightforward so that the reader can concentrate on the story and the characters. All the violence happens off the page - which makes a pleasant change. If you have not read any books by this author then this would be a good one to start with. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys books by authors such as Martin Edwards, Priscilla Masters or Simon Brett.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I was tipped off by a reviewer of another of Peter Lovesey's books that The Vault was one of his best. I agree. It's an intricate and well-crafted story that keeps you reading. It weaves an historical figure, Mary Shelley and her book, Frankenstein with a fictitious modern story involving a murder victim just unearthed during work on vaults underneath a churchyard in Bath and a fanatical collector of Frankenstein memorabilia. I won't give away the twists and turns of the story but in the end all are satisfactorily connected.
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