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1) Diamond dust
Author
Series
Peter Diamond mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Down on his luck, Police Inspector Peter Diamond of Bath, England, falls even further when his wife is shot in broad daylight and his superiors forbid him to work on the case.
2) The vault
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Physical Desc
331 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a skeletal hand is uncovered during the renovation of a local building, Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must determine whether the find is merely of archaeological interest or if a murder has taken place.
Author
Series
Peter Diamond mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond pursues the killer of a young woman whose nude body was found floating in a lake south of Bristol.
Author
Series
Peter Diamond mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fired from the police force for insubordination, Peter Diamond is reduced to working as a security guard at Harrod’s. Turns out he can’t even hold that job—he gets fired after finding an abandoned Japanese girl in the store after closing. “Naomi,” as he calls her, exhibits strong signs of autism, and he devotes himself to communicating with her in order to glean her identity and return her to her rightful home. Weeks later, a Japanese woman...
Author
Series
Peter Diamond mysteries volume 5
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A young woman is dumped, injured, and unconscious, in a private hospital's parking lot. She is an amnesiac with no memory prior to her discovery by hospital personnel. Detective Inspector Peter Diamond of the Bath homicide squad is unwilling to become involved. He has other, more important cases to solve. A woman has plunged to her death from the roof of a local landmark while half the young people of Bath partied below, and an elderly farmer has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Another One Goes Tonight [is an] impeccably constructed mystery featuring the unpredictable but ever-entertaining Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond...there are plenty of red herrings to sniff out and misdirections to blindly follow. A classic whodunit." —The New York Times Book Review
En route to investigate a late-night disturbance, a patrol car spins off the road, killing one of the cops...
En route to investigate a late-night disturbance, a patrol car spins off the road, killing one of the cops...
7) Bloodhounds
Author
Series
Peter Diamond mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
"A rare stamp and a corpse are discovered in Bath within hours of each other. As he investigates, Inspector Peter Diamond discovers that both the person who found the stamp and the victim belong to the Bloodhounds, an elite group of mystery lovers, who now urge Diamond to bring the murderer to justice. But there’s a hitch: the body lies inside a padlocked houseboat and the only key is in the pocket of a man with an airtight alibi." From Amazon
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When three policemen are murdered in the Bath area by a sniper who eludes authorities and younger detectives, Chief Superintendent Peter Diamond embarks on what becomes one of the most dangerous cases of his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Peter Diamond, still traumatized by the murder of his wife, finds himself again at odds with his superior, Assistant Chief Constable Georgina Dallymore, when his investigation into the separate hangings of a woman and her one-time partner suggests that both were murdered, contrary to the ACC's belief that they were victims of a murder-suicide
10) Skeleton Hill
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
On Lansdown Hill near Bath, where a battle between Roundheads and Cavaliers that took place over 350 years ago is reenacted annually, two of the reenactors discover a skeleton that is female, headless, and only about twenty years old. One of them is later found murdered. In the course of his investigation, Peter Diamond butts heads with a group of vigilantes who call themselves the Lansdown Society, discovering in the process that his boss is a member....
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two police officers are about to head home after a long night shift when they receive one last call: a suspicious nude person has been spotted in the wee hours of the morning. En route to the call, the patrol car spins off the road, killing one of the exhausted cops instantly and leaving the other in critical condition. Whenever a police car is involved in an accident, the matter must be taken very seriously. Inspector Peter Diamond is assigned to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a Sussex town on the southeast 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? Meanwhile, detective Peter Diamond finds himself...
13) The circle
Author
Series
Inspector Hen Mallin novels volume 1
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widowed van driver Bob Naylor is prodded into joining the Chichester Writers' Circle by his teenage daughter. Bob writes limericks and jingles, and fears he will be out of his class among the literati. But the members of the circle come from all walks of life and practice many forms of writing, from fantasy to household hints. There seems to be nothing about any of them to incite a serial killer. However, there is an arsonist in their midst, burning...
Author
Series
Peter Diamond mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
321 Pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On a fateful July morning in 2015, a riot takes hold of Her Majesty's Prison in Bream, Gloucestershire, with fatal consequences. The staff is caught completely off-guard--their supervising warden, Governor Magda Lyle, hasn't shown up for work, and the prisoners are able to start a fire that nearly results in a mass escape. Three years later and forty miles south, a most controversial wedding is about to take place in Bath's gorgeous Abbey, with a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the seventeenth installment in Peter Lovesey's timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond digs deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous) icons: Richard "Beau" Nash, who might have been the victim of a centuries-old murder. Bath, England: A wrecking crew is demolishing a row of townhouses in order to build a grocery store when they uncover a skeleton in one of the attics. The dead man is wearing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a competitive-bidding war for a rare carved stone is interrupted by three masked men who kill the highest bidder, Peter Diamond and his team investigate the carving's mystical origins while Ingeborg goes undercover to learn about the murder weapon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
348 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a young woman whose only identifying mark is a tattoo on one of her teeth, British criminal investigator Peter Diamond teams up with violist Mel Farran and discovers frightening truths about the cutthroat world of professional music.
Author
Series
Sergeant Cribb mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
234 pages, 9 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
" London, 1897. Crowds have gathered at Islington's chilly Agricultural Hall to place their bets on who will become the next world champion in a six-day, 500-mile speedwalking race, the "wobble." When one of the highly favored contenders dies under suspicious circumstances, Sergeant Cribb also has a race on his hands--to pursue a ruthless murderer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
353 pages : 22 cm. map ;
Language
English
Description
"Through a particularly tragic series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly, an elementary school teacher whose mother always assured her "curvy" girls shouldn't waste their time trying to be fit, has been forced to sign up for the Other Half, Bath's springtime half-marathon. The training is brutal, but she must disprove her mother and collect pledges for her aunt's beloved charity. What Maeve doesn't know is just how brutal some of the other runners...
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