Paperback. Time Warner Paperbacks 1998-05-21.
ISBN: 075152025X / 0-7515-2025-X
EAN: 9780751520255
Carefully plotted story (Rating 4 of 5)
» Damaskcat
The plot is complex starting off with a girl found injured in a hospital car park and suffering from amnesia. A curmudgeonly old farmer appears to have committed suicide at an isolated farmhouse. The waters are muddied even more when a girl falls off a roof to her death. Peter Diamond is not getting on well with his colleagues and is uninterested in loss of memory or suicide. He wants a murder to investigate before he dies of boredom. But all is not what it seems and soon he has more than enough to investigate. Full of memorable characters - especially the shoplifter with morals - Ada - the story intrigues you from the first page. The conclusions ties up all the loose ends in a satisfactory manner.
Unputdownable! (Rating 5 of 5)
» Baz
I picked this up on a recommendation and it was the first Peter Lovesey novel that I've read, but it won't by any means be the last. Lovesey is consummate at his drawing of characters, his plotting and the drawing out of suspense - so much so that I couldn't put it down and finally finished it at two o'clock in the morning, disappointed that I'd come to the end! Needless to say, I'll now be reading the whole Peter Diamond series and the rest of Lovesey's work. Great stuff from a master storyteller!
(Rating 4 of 5)
(Rating 5 of 5)
