Alma Webster's passionate love affair with dentist Walter Baranov leads to the murder of his wife, the couple's journey to the United States, and a shioard murder that Walter, having hidden his identity under the alias Inspector Dew, ...

Unemployed British ex-cop Peter Diamond is rousted from his bed by police for an emergency job only he can handle. John Mountjoy, a woman-hating murderer Diamond arrested four years ago has broken out of prison, taken the assistant ch...

Peter Diamond, British detective extraordinaire, must dig deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous) icons: Richard "Beau" Nash, who might be the victim of a centuries old mur...

The second entry of the Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England.Bertie, Prince of Wales, is delighted to be invited ...

Introduction by Louise PennyA woman's body has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol.  In order to solve the mystery of the "Lady in the Lake,"  Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must locate t...

"Nobody can write the modern traditional detective novel as perfectly as Lovesey."—The Denver Post"A special treat."—The New York Times Book ReviewOn Lansdown Hill near Bath, a battle between Roundheads and Cav...

This tale of murder and murderously bad prose picks up a character from Peter Lovesey’s Peter Diamond series, Chief Inspector Henrietta "Hen" Mallin. When a vanity-press publisher is killed in a suspicious fire, the me...

'Peter Lovesey loves strong women, cerebral killers and diabolical puzzles-the very ingredients that make The House Sitter one of the most cunning mysteries in his Inspector Diamond series.'-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Rev...

'A special treat.'-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review'Peter Lovesey has cloaked the classic puzzle' mystery in a fully realized world of coppers and local landmarks.'-Houston Chronicle'Lovesey . . . should be on every Brit...

'Peter Lovesey tosses off a real brain-banger in Bloodhounds, the fourth book in a challenging series. . . . I am mad for these pyrotechnic teasers, and this one had my head spinning.'-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review'A ...

One time police detective Peter Diamond loses his job as a security guard when he fails to spot a small Japanese child hiding in the furniture department of Harrods. But Diamond is unable to forget the frightened eyes of the silent li...

'The threads of Peter Lovesey's new Peter Diamond mystery, Upon a Dark Night, twist up so neatly they make a perfect hangman's noose-another triumph of plotting from this master of the classic puzzle form.'-Marilyn Stasio, The New Yor...

Soon after World War II, two former co-workers in the operations room of a Royal Air Force Squadron meet in the street. Their lives have diverged dramatically but each wants to get rid of her husband. And so a mutual assistance pact i...

Book 14 in the Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond series, one of Soho's bestselling and most critically acclaimed series, this time including a Chauceresque twist. At a Bath auction house, a large slab of carved stone is up for s...

"Here's another of those delightful Victorian mysteries, featuring Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray of the Yard. This one deals with peculiar accidents in various music halls, mishaps of a kind that would ruin a performer's...

In the sixteenth entry of Peter Lovesey's timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond wrestles with his own moral compass, struggling to protect police prestige while debating what it means to do right by a serial killer. En ro...

Introducing Victorian England's most illustrious amateur sleuth (if not necessarily its most adept): Bertie, Prince of Wales, who can't help but poke his royal nose into a suspicious-sounding circumstance.Bertie, Prince of Wales and f...

Book 12 in the Peter Diamond series from the CWA Gold, Silver, and Diamond Dagger-winning master of fair play crime fiction, Peter Lovesey.PC Harry Trasker is the third policeman in the Bath area to be shot dead in less than twelve ...

A Bath antiques dealer has disappeared, and detective Peter Diamond has been saddled with the "help" of a hardboiled Philip Marlowe wannabe private investigator in cracking the case. MWA Grand Master Peter Lovesey's 20th ins...

Peter Diamond takes a dive down among the dead men to solve a seven-year-old murder case in the latest installment of Peter Lovesey's classic procedural series.In a Sussex town on the south coast of England, a widely disliked art teac...

Peter Lovesey, MWA Grand Master and titan of the English detective novel, returns readers to Bath with the eighteenth mystery in his critically acclaimed Peter Diamond series. As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his ...

Pop diva, Clarion Calhoun, has packed the house with a celebrity appearance in Bath's Theatre Royal production of I Am a Camera.  But within moments of her much-anticipated onstage appearance, she's pulled out of character as she scr...

On the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first novel, Peter Lovesey, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and titan of the British detective novel, returns to the subject of his very first mystery—running. Through a...

A nude female corpse has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol.  In order to solve the mystery of the "Lady in the Lake,"  Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must locate two missing letters att...

Peter Diamond, head of the Criminal Investigation Division in scenic Bath, England, is investigating the murder of a young woman whose body has been found in the canal, the only clue to her identity a tattoo of a music note on one...

Praise for the Sergeant Cribb Series:"Delightful Victorian mysteries. . . . [A] fine picture of vice, good mystery plotting, and fun."—San Francisco Chronicle"Lively and well-plotted."—The New York TimesBeautif...

In 1879, race walking competitions, known as "wobbles," were all the rage. The death of a contender, followed by a second murder, introduces London's no-nonsence cop Sergeant Cribb who had a penchant for extreme sports.