I just finished this crime detective novel which is the first of the Peter Diamond series. I started it on April 14th and finished it a week later.
I had been reading quite a few mystery/crime/detective novels in recent years especially ones from locations in different foreign cities. I recently came across Peter Lovesey who has been writing British crime novels since the 1970's. I saw somewhere that his Peter Diamond series was outstanding so I decided to jump right into it with the first novel in the series. I loved it. Gave it a 5 star review in Good Reads too.
This series takes place in the city of Bath in England. The author is very good with police procedure and really knows how to describe a crime scene and everything associated with it. The Peter Diamond detective is quite the character too. Another thing I liked about it was the introduction of computers and databases into the crime investigation and police procedures which was all very new in 1991. The author really explores that new twist to the crime novel and it was something I was doing introducing computers at the public library in 1991.
The opening line of the book... "A man stood thigh-deep in water, motionless, absorbed, unaware of what was drifting towards him." Which turns out to be the body of a dead woman.
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