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'A consummate storyteller' Colin Dexter 'Admirably unpredictable (Lovesey keeps you guessing until the very end) and entertaining all the way' LITERARY REVIEW 'Peter Diamond may be my favourite fictional police detective - perky, dogged and very clever' SCOTSMAN 'More twists and turns than the Snake Pass, a joy to the last page.' YORKSHIRE POST 'The investigation makes a good story, probably the best Lovesey has ever written.' BIRMINGHAM POST 'From the moment the lone fisherman is nudged by the floating body on the north shore of Chew Valley Lake you will have difficulty putting down the book.' NORTHERN ECHO 'Combines police procedural with rococco whodunnit solved by hard-nosed methology despite fancy touches like letters from Jane Austen. A gratifying mix.' GUARDIAN 'The master of historical mystery comes up to date with a lady-in-the-lake murder in genteel Bath... a satisfying, well cast detective story with plentiful twists and turns.' WEEKEND TELEGRAPH 'THE LAST DETECTIVE offers an intricate, fascinating puzzle full of unexpected turns, set against a credible social background.' SUNDAY TIMES 'The master of the Victorian detective novel turns, for the first time, to a modern whodunnit, and a terrific job he makes of it.' TIMES 'Smoothly written and clever whodunnit.' MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS 'A strong debut into the world of modern crime.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'When a thriller is particularly well written, it is temptiing to say that it transcends the genre. This book is unashamedly a whodunnit, but is none the less excellent. The plot is meticulously organised, the writing is thoughtfully literate and at times literary. In his detective, Peter Diamond, Lovesey has created a stubborn, committed copper... For all his brashness he is essentially likeable... To cap it all, there is a sparkling wit bubbling underneath the surface.' SUNDAY TIMES 'This is in the very best sense of the word, a marvellously traditional tale of detection. There is mystery, surprise and a splendid cast of characters to delight the readers. However, the interesting moral ambiguity of the ending sets it firmly in modern times.' SATURDAY TIMES
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THE LAST DETECTIVE Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective - computers and spreadsheets and technology are not for him. So when the naked body of an unidentified woman is found in a lake near Bath his sleuthing abilities are tested to the limit. While the 'men in white coats' huddle in their laboratories, Diamond is on the streets, following the real clues hidden amongst Bath's historic buildings and intertwined with its literary past, and exposes a very uncomfortable truth ...DIAMOND SOLITAIRE A Japanese child is found in Harrods where Diamond is working as a security guard. Her identity is a mystery, but after a television appeal is broadcast she is kidnapped. By interpreting the pictorial clues the autistic child left behind, Diamond tracks her to New York, where a murder is discovered, then to Tokyo where Japan's most famous sumo wrestler helps bring the quest to a sensational climax.
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