Peter Lovesey

 

Showstopper

Showstopper, published by Soho Press in the United States and Sphere in the United Kingdom, is the twenty-first Peter Diamond mystery in a series that started with The Last Detective.

“ANOTHER TRIUMPH FOR A VETERAN SLEUTH WHO’S PRETTY UNSTOPPABLE HIMSELF” Publishers Weekly Starred Review

“MORE THAN 30 YEARS INTO THIS SERIES, LOVESEY SHOWS NO SIGN OF LOSING STEAM OR INGENUITY” Kirkus Reviews

“PETER LOVESEY CONTINUES TO AMAZE WITH HIS INGENIOUS PLOTTING AND PLEASING STYLE” Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine

“AN ENTICING, FAST-PACED MYSTERY THAT WILL LEAVE READERS GUESSING AT EVERY TURN” Goodreads

Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond doesn’t believe in jinxes. When he is ordered to investigate a top TV series plagued by a series of misfortunes, he is unmoved. The incidents were spread across six years and Diamond is no fan of Swift – a long-running show that glorifies criminals and mocks the police. He decides that the local newspaper is making a sensation out of nothing. He puts the junior member of the squad on the case.

But when young officer Paul Gilbert goes on location with the TV unit and witnesses another near-death incident, the jinx must be taken more seriously. The press learn that Diamond himself is taking charge, putting him under pressure to account for the mishaps, accidents and disappearances and come up with a solution. But his troubles have barely started. Behind this so-called jinx lurks a killer who must be found and stopped.

Diamond And The Eye

DIAMOND AND THE EYE was published in the UK by Sphere on July 8, 2021
and in the US by Soho Press on October 12, 2021 and was published in paperback in 2022

THE SHEAR AMAZING SLEUTH

Of all the weird characters Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond has met in Bath, this one is the most extreme: a twenty-first century private eye called Johnny Getz, whose office is over Shear Amazing, a hairdressing salon. Johnny has been hired by Ruby Hubbard, whose father, an antiques shop owner, has gone missing, and Johnny insists on involving ‘Pete’ in his investigation.

When Diamond, Johnny and Ruby enter the shop, they find a body and a murder investigation is launched. Diamond is forced to house his team in the dilapidated Corn Market building across the street. His problems grow when his boss appoints Lady Bede, from the Police Ethics Committee, as an observer. Worse still, Johnny conducts his own inquiry by latching onto Ruby’s stylish friend, a journalist called Olympia.

Shootings from a drive-by gunman at key players create mayhem and the pressure is really on. Can the team stop more killings in this normally peaceful city? What happened to Ruby’s father? And will Johnny crack the case before Diamond does?

This is the twentieth Peter Diamond novel. Books in the series have twice won the Crime Writers’ Association Silver Dagger as well as the Anthony, Barry and Macavity awards and been shortlisted for the Edgar and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Peter is the only living British author to have been honoured with the two top honours in crime writing: the CWA/Cartier Diamond Dagger and Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America.