The latest Peter Diamond mystery
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Peter Lovesey
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 83 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1982–2025, suosituimpiin kuuluu I.D.. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
83 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1982–2025.
"What'll it be today? A knotty puzzle mystery? A fast-paced police procedural? Something more high-toned, with a bit of wit? With the British author Peter Lovesey, there's no need to make those agonizing decisions, because his books have it all." --The New York Times Book Review In a Sussex town on the south coast of England, a widely disliked art teacher at a posh private girls' school disappears without explanation. None of her students miss her boring lessons, especially since her replacement is a devilishly hunky male teacher with a fancy car. But then her name shows up on a police missing persons list. What happened to Miss Gibbon, and why does no one seem to care? Peter Diamond has been sent to Sussex on a Home Office internal investigation to look into breach of conduct by a fellow police officer--a failure to process DNA evidence related to a cold case. As he asks questions, he begins to notice unsettling connections between the cold case and the missing art teacher. Could the two mysteries be connected? How many other area disappearances have gone unnoticed and uninvestigated? Diamond and his hapless supervisor have stumbled into a web of related crimes. Will Diamond be able to disentangle them?
Down Among the Dead Men
Peter Lovesey
Little, Brown Book Group
2016
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Multi-award-winning author Peter Lovesey returns with a twisting tale that will delight fans of the series and draw in anyone who loves pitch-perfect traditional British crime fiction.
A Nazi prisoner. A daring journalist. An extraordinary secret . . . Rudolf Hess was the most closely guarded prisoner in the world. Forty-five years after his capture in Scotland on a supposed peace mission he was still in Spandau Prison. Why was it necessary to keep him there so long? He was a Nazi -- but one with a damaging tale to tell. If anyone can reach him it is Berlin correspondent Red Goodbody, known for his foolhardiness, but also for his daring and panache. The fear is that the stability of Western Europe may be undermined by what Hess can reveal; and so both the KGB and MI5 move into action to protect the extraordinary secret of Spandau.
The new Peter Diamond case has the eminent detective in pursuit of a murderer after a theft at an auction house goes wrong
A standalone novel from the critically acclaimed Peter Lovesey. The False Inspector Dew was the winner of the 1982 CWA Gold Dagger.
The standalone novel from the critically-acclaimed Peter Lovesey. Rough Cider was nominated for an Edgar Award. It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, especially with the local girls. After a dance to celebrate the pressing of the apples into cider, the resentment of the local men leads to violence and a murder. Later, a baby girl is born. Years later, Theo, a university lecturer, is approached by an American girl called Alice. She wants to be told about her father, a GI hanged for murder in Somerset during World War II. As a boy, Theo had been a principal witness for the prosecution. Alice persuades him to revisit the farm where Theo was evacuated, staunchly determined to discover the facts. The horrors of the past take on a frightening immediacy when long-forgotten jealousies come to the surface and another murder is committed.
A murder mystery set in the world of silent movies, from the award-winning author, Peter Lovesey.
"Ingenious . . . Lovers of good music and a good mystery should not miss this delightful tale." --Washington Post Book World Peter Diamond, head of the Criminal Investigation Division in scenic Bath, England, is investigating the murder of a young woman whose body has been found in the canal, the only clue to her identity a tattoo of a music note on one of her teeth. For Diamond, who wouldn't know a Stradivarius from a French horn, the investigation is his most demanding ever. Meanwhile, strange things are happening to jobbing violist Mel Farran, who finds himself scouted by a very elite classical quartet--one whose previous violist disappeared without a trace. Despite the mystery shrouding the group, the chance to join is too good to pass up, and Mel finds himself in a cushy residency at Bath Spa University with the quartet--and embroiled in the unusually musical murder investigation. As the story unfolds in fugue-like counterpoint, Peter and Mel both learn frightening secrets about fandom and about what it takes to survive in the cutthroat world of professional musicians.
A dark, delicious standalone, from award-winning Peter Lovesey.
A fiendishly clever Hen Mallin mystery, from the award-winning Peter Lovesey
From the author of the highly popular Peter Diamond series comes this thrilling tale of mystery, mayhem and murder most foul.
A Peter Diamond Mystery, also introducing Hen Mallin, from Peter Lovesey's award-winning series
Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children’s Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a decade of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. The hardships and fear created by a world war were immense. Britain’s towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, and many children faced the trauma of being parted from their parents and sent away to the country to live with complete strangers. For just over half of this decade the war continued, meaning food and clothing shortages became a way of life. But through it all, and afterwards, the simplicity of kids shone. From collecting bits of shot-down German aircraft to playing in bomb-strewn streets, kids made their own fun. Then there was the joy of the second half of the 1940s, when fathers came home and the magic of ‘normal life’ returned. This trip down memory lane will take you through the most memorable and evocative experiences of growing up in the 1940s.
The stunning whodunnit from the award-winning Peter Diamond series.
The most difficult case of Detective Inspector Diamond's career, from Peter Lovesey's award-winning series
A gloriously serpentine mystery, from Peter Lovesey's award-winning series.
A Peter Diamond case in which the Bath detective solves a perplexing case with an international reach