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Peter Lovesey

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in Whitton, Middlesex, The United Kingdom

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http://peterlovesey.com/

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Mystery & Thrillers, Sports

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Peter (Harmer) Lovesey (born 1936 in Whitton, Middlesex) is a British writer of historical and contemporary crime novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath. Lovesey's novels and stories mainly fall into the category of entertaining puzzlers in the "Golden Age" tradition of mystery writing.

He is also well known as a writer of non-fiction histories of track & field athletics and several of his novels have used the sport as a theme. His first-ever book in 1968 was The Kings of Distance, a study of five great runners,

Most of Peter Lovesey's writing has been done under his own name. However, he did write ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 55,756 ratings · 6,080 reviews · 239 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Last Detective (Peter Diamond, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 7,127 ratings — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diamond Solitaire (Peter Diamond, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 2,522 ratings — published 1992 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bloodhounds (Peter Diamond, #4) 3.93 avg rating — 2,077 ratings — published 1996 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Hangman (Peter Diamond, #9) 3.89 avg rating — 1,924 ratings — published 2007 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tooth Tattoo (Peter Diamond, #13) 3.92 avg rating — 1,900 ratings — published 2013 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down Among the Dead Men (Peter Diamond, #15) 4.03 avg rating — 1,838 ratings — published 2015 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Summons (Peter Diamond, #3) 4.07 avg rating — 1,821 ratings — published 1995 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another One Goes Tonight (Peter Diamond, #16) 4.04 avg rating — 1,793 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wobble to Death (Sergeant Cribb #1) 3.68 avg rating — 1,962 ratings — published 1970 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House Sitter (Peter Diamond, #8; Inspector Henrietta Mallin .5) 4.05 avg rating — 1,755 ratings — published 2003 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That’s how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the time they seem perfectly sane.”
― Peter Lovesey, The Last Detective

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“I wonder if we’re dealing with an amateur,” she said. “Who keeps a revolver in his sock drawer? This isn’t America.”
― Peter Lovesey, Beau Death

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“hunches are mostly your brain telling you what you want to hear.”
― Peter Lovesey, Diamond and the Eye

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Which more contemporary English Mystery would you like to read with us during February? Once again, we have some great choices! Please vote here.

A Nice Class of Corpse by Simon Brett

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Wobble to Death by Peter Lovesey

30 votes, 28.8%

The Body in the Dumb River by George Bellairs

16 votes, 15.4%

She's Leaving Home by William Shaw

13 votes, 12.5%

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