A woman's naked body is found floating in the weeds of a lake near Bath, by an elderly woman walking her Siamese cats. No-one comes forward to identify her, and no murder weapon is found, but sleuthing is Superintendent Peter Diamond's speciality. A genuine gumshoe, practising door-stopping and deduction: he is the last detective.

Struggling with office politics and a bizarre cast of suspects, Diamond strikes out on his own, even when Forensics think they have the culprit. Eventually, despite disastrous personal consequences, and amongst Bath's rambling buildings and formidable history, the last detective exposes the uncomfortable truth . . .

The very first Peter Diamond mystery, and Anthony Award winning novel, from the superb Peter Lovesey.

Existing author website at www.peterlovesey.com/

About the Author

Peter Lovesey is the only living author in Britain to have received the two highest honours in crime writing - the Diamond Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. He started with the Sergeant Cribb series set in Victorian London and later progressed to modern times with the award-winning Peter Diamond books set in Bath, his home for almost twenty years.

Now living in Shrewsbury with his wife Jax, whom he met at Reading University, he continues to reach and entertain new readers across the world.

Reviews
A brilliant performance * Times Literary Supplement *
A terrific job * The Times *
Mr Lovesey maintains a wonderful tone throughout . . . A comedy of bad manners, full of oddball characters and wacky events develops into a perfectly realised murder mystery whose skilful misdirection never oversteps the bounds of fair play * The Wall St Journal *
A bravura performance from a veteran showman: slyly paced, marbled with surprise and, in the end, strangely affecting * New York Times Book Review *



Book Information
ISBN 9780751553680
Author Peter Lovesey
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Sphere
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 291g
Dimensions(mm) 194mm * 128mm * 26mm