A pop star's face is burned by suspicious stage makeup during her stint at a Bath playhouse. The main suspect, the makeup artist, is found dead, and Diamond must conquer his own mysterious but deep-seated phobia to solve the crime.

A skeletal hand is unearthed in the vault under the Pump Room in Bath, England, near the site where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Then a skull is excavated. The bones came from different corpses, and one is modern. Detective Superi...

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 un...