Into The Tunnel Of Death
Fifty years after his career was launched with Wobble to Death, Peter returns to running as a theme in his new book The Finisher.
A killer strikes in the Bath half-marathon. No one in the local CID understands at first why Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is so agitated when he sees Tony Pinto paying unwanted attention to a young woman soon after the start. But Diamond remembers putting Pinto away for a vicious attack on a student, and now the man is on parole after years of good behaviour. Diamond’s fixation with this ex-convict will bring him into trouble from every side, including his boss Georgina and police headquarters.
Unknown to anyone at this stage, a murderer known as the Finisher has already been active in the city. Will the next victim be Maeve, who is running to salve her conscience after accidentally destroying a valuable item intended for charity? Olga, a rich Russian determined to shed weight and streamline her figure? Belinda, a painfully shy IT expert taking part in memory of her mother? Or Spiro, an Albanian fugitive on the run from modern slavery?
First, Diamond must prove that murder has been done and then discover where the corpse is hidden, a dangerous quest that leaves him with a crippling injury. Only he can unmask the Finisher …
The Critics’ Verdict on Peter’s previous novel, Killing with Confetti
‘Mr Lovesey’s book seems like a combination of Romeo and Juliet and The Day of the Jackal . . . Mr Lovesey has been writing his Peter Diamond series for nearly three decades, and it’s a pleasure to note no discernible flagging of energy in author or detective. And how refreshing to hear the inimitable Diamond erupt in righteous expletives, ‘F – forensics . . . We’re detectives . . . We investigate.’
Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
‘Lovesey plants clever clues, a big surprise and a tense climax in the labyrinthine ruins of the town’s Roman baths.’
Adam Woog, The Seattle Times
‘Fun is something guaranteed by the name Peter Lovesey on a book cover . . . There’s certainly going to be a killing, but as Lovesey fans will expect, there’ll be plenty of twists and misdirections before the story behind the death is finally unravelled.’
Mat Coward, The Morning Star
‘The crafting of all this is superb, and consistent with the author’s handling of the series. Killing with Confetti is book 18 in Lovesey’s Diamond mystery series, and it has yet to let readers down.
Carolyn Haley, New York Journal of Books
‘Two seemingly unconnected events are brought together in this marvelous mystery . . . Peter Lovesey brought us his first mystery in 1970 and since then has enjoyed a sterling career with many, many highlights along the way.’
George Easter, Deadly Pleasures
‘We’re treated to Lovesey’s enchanting style, urbane wordplay and sucker-punch plotting. Don’t believe anyone who says, “I knew it all along.”
Booklist
‘Lovesey connects the dots plausibly and as always lightens the plot with dry wit.’
Publishers Weekly
‘When I closed the cover, I thought, Where has this man been all my life? . . . Lovesey’s series is rich with the history of the scenic area of Bath, England, and laced with wit, danger, pathos, love and loss. His protagonist, Peter Diamond, is a fully rounded human being with his own unique crime-solving methods . . . So kick back and enjoy a delightful summer escape from the drumbeat of real-world events that pays off with a surprising, page-turning denouement.’
Roz Shea, BookReporter
‘I absolutely loved Peter Diamond. He’s a no-nonsense policeman and Lovesey is a no-nonsense writer. I felt like I was watching an episode of a British crime series and enjoyed every minute of it. I completely forgot I had jumped in at book 18.’
Kerry Hammond, Mystery Playground
‘A new novel by Peter Lovesey is always an event to be savoured . . . in breathtaking manner, Lovesey turns the story around so that we finish up with a highly entertaining puzzle involving an impossible crime and a reconstruction of what actually happened that results in a brilliant plot twist. This is an unexpected book by a master of tales of the unexpected.’
Martin Edwards, Do You Write Under Your Own Name?
