I am so excited for you to be at the very beginning of this trend-setting, beautifully written, vivid series.--from the introduction by LOUISE PENNY The first installment in one of crime fiction\'s most enjoyable, iconic series--now featuring fascinating bonus looks into Diamond\'s origins, adventures, and personality In the first entry to the series and winner of the Anthony Award for Best Mystery Novel, Detective Peter Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen to solve the murder of the Lady in the Lake.
The Last Detective started it all, and it is now reissued in a gorgeous deluxe edition featuring an introduction by Louise Penny, an afterword by the author, and fascinating true-crime context describing how this book came to be..
Over 30 years and 21 subsequent novels, Peter Lovesey has bewitched his enormous fandom with the wry, stubborn, and fiendishly clever Peter Diamond.
To unravel this one, Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen and defy his superiors in order to save a woman unjustly accused of murder.
Diamond is one of the Last detectives of his kind, a gumshoe whose heroes solved crimes by question and answer, door stepping and deduction.
It looks like Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond has his work cut out for him.
No one will identify her.
There are no marks on her and no murder weapon.
A woman\'s body has been found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath.
I am so excited for you to be at the very beginning of this trend-setting, beautifully written, vivid series.--from the introduction by LOUISE PENNY The first installment in one of crime fiction\'s most enjoyable, iconic series--now featuring fascinating bonus looks into Diamond\'s origins, adventures, and personality In the first entry to the series and winner of the Anthony Award for Best Mystery Novel, Detective Peter Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen to solve the murder of the Lady in the Lake
