Peter Diamond Mystery #08: House Sitter, The

Peter Diamond Mystery #08: House Sitter, The
Peter Lovesey
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Paperback
h198 x 126mm - 400pg
5 Jun 2014 UK
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9780751553611
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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.

#01: Last Detective, The
#02: Diamond Solitaire
#03: Summons, The
#04: Bloodhounds
#05: Upon A Dark Night
#06: Vault, The
#07: Diamond Dust
#08: House Sitter, The
#09: Secret Hangman, The
#10: Skeleton Hill
#11: Stagestruck
#12: Cop to Corpse
#13: Tooth Tattoo, The
#14: Stone Wife, The
#15: Down Among the Dead Men
#16: Another One Goes Tonight
#17: Beau Death
#18: Killing with Confetti
#19: Finisher, The
#20: Diamond and the Eye
#21: Showstopper

The writing is as smooth as polished steel, and the small touches that reveal character, especially the memorable Hen, approach genius. This is Lovesey at his best Publishers Weekly Brusque Diamond and plain-speaking Mallin make an engaging team, and few, if any, can top Lovesey in not only creating believable red herrings and plot twists but whetting an appetite for reading the English classics Kirkus Reviews No-one has done this kind of thing better since Dorothy L. Sayers ... A must for crime buffs Mail on Sunday
Peter Lovesey was born in Middlesex and studied at Hampton Grammar School and Reading University, where he met his wife Jax. He won a competition with his first crime fiction novel, Wobble to Death, and has never looked back, with his numerous books winning and being shortlisted for nearly all the prizes in the international crime writing world. He was Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and has been presented with Lifetime Achievement awards both in the UK and the US.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780751553611
Published: 5 Jun 2014
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sphere
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 126mm
Pages: 400
Dewey: 823.914

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