Upon a Dark Night

Peter Diamond, the traditionalist dinosaur of Bath CID, finds the low murder rate in the city a touch frustrating, so he decides to check whether a couple of suicides which his colleague is investigating have been accurately classified. On the outskirts of the city a woman is found unconscious in a hospital car park, but when she recovers she can't remember who she is or how she came to be there. Soon after she is released into the care of the local authority, Diamond has a 'proper' case to get his teeth into when a woman's body is found in the garden of a flat after a somewhat drunken party. None of the other guests knew her and it is not clear whether she slipped, jumped or was pushed, and with no clue as to her identity Diamond has a puzzle to satisfy his quirky talents. In a mystery of stunning complexity, Peter Lovesey amply demonstrates his gifts as the grand master of the contemporary whodunnit.

ISBN 075152025X   Pages 352 ISBN13 9780751520255 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 258 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group   Published in London Imprint Sphere   Series title A Peter Diamond Mystery Format Paperback   Height (mm) 177 Publication date 21 May 1998   Width (mm) 108 DEWEY 823.914   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

Entertaining all the way. TLS Lovesey creates the ambience of Bath with all his customary skill... and the plotting has the satisfyingly complex structure. CRIME TIME It's masterfully plotted stuff, and distinguished by Lovesay's array of neatly sketched characters and his deft handling of amnesia. OBSERVER Mr Lovesey never lets you down. IRISH INDEPENDENT

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