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Diamond Dust

A Peter Diamond mystery

Barry Award shortlist, 2002

When a woman is shot dead in Bath’s Royal Victoria Park, it is Diamond who goes to the scene and finds that the victim is Stephanie, his wife.

Traumatised, grief-stricken and angry for justice, Diamond is told that this is one case he won’t be allowed to work on. Not only that. As the victim’s spouse, he is an obvious suspect. While the police put their efforts into checking his alibi, Diamond starts his own unauthorised investigation. Soon he is sifting the dust of his entire career. This is Diamond’s most touching and demanding case.

UK Publisher: Little, Brown, 2002 ISBN 0-316-85985-0
US Publisher: Soho Press, 2002 ISBN 1-56947-291-2
UK Paperback: Time Warner, 2003 ISBN 0-7515-3249-5
Latest US Paperback: Soho Press, 2003 ISBN 1-56947-322-6
Latest UK Paperback: Sphere, 2014 ISBN 978-0751553628

“Lovesey’s writing is lucid and succinct, and he is a consummate story-teller. I am not myself at all perceptive in spotting the central deception of any whodunit. But this time I’d almost begun to work out the surprise denouement, since I guessed (rightly, I think) that Lovesey had given us slightly too big a clue at one point. Why ‘almost begun’? Because the author was still one jump ahead of the field with a sweetly satisfying second surprise, of which I had entertained not the faintest notion.”
Colin Dexter, The Oldie

“Lovesey takes his hero to emotional places he’s never been before while constructing a plot of infernal ingenuity.”
Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

“Lovesey will be hard-pressed to surpass this current effort for its combination of the puzzle and the personal, but based on his current achievement, it would be no great surprise if he did.”
Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)

Diamond Solitaire

A Peter Diamond mystery

Peter Diamond, ex-CID and notoriously difficult to work with, is sacked from his latest job as a security guard in Harrods. Doggedly he turns his sleuthing skills to unravelling the mystery of a little Japanese girl abandoned in London. Naomi, as she is known, exhibits the classic symptoms of the autistic child. Diamond regards her first as a challenge and soon as someone he cares passionately about. Encouraged by a famous sumo wrestler, he devotes himself to achieving communication with the child and is close to a breakthrough when Naomi is abducted to New York.

By interpreting clues in the form of drawings made by Naomi, Diamond goes in pursuit and is plunged into a maelstrom of murder and the mafia, suicide and smart drugs.

UK Publisher: Little, Brown, 1992 ISBN 0-316-90325-6
US Publisher: Mysterious Press, 1993 ISBN 0-89296-535-5
UK Paperback: Warner Futura, 1993 ISBN 0-7515-0160-3
US Paperback: Mysterious Press, 1994 ISBN 0-446-40347-4
Latest US Paperback: Soho Press, 2002 ISBN 1-56947-292-0
Latest UK Paperback: Sphere, 2014 ISBN 978-0751553673

“Lovesey sustains his reputation as a deft mystifier in one of the choicest crime-shelf entertainments of the year.”
Matthew Coady, The Guardian

“Polish up the Gold Dagger; Lovesey’s angling for another.”
Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

“A book that without gimmickry or cross-genre splicing, delivers superb, unashamedly traditional crime writing. Lovesey’s mysteries have won awards in England and France; he has previously been nominated for an Edgar, as he could be again for this fine tale.”
Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

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