Against the Grain

A new Peter Diamond novel from the CWA Diamond-Dagger-winner Peter Lovesey

'His work is the gold standard for UK crime fiction writing' DEADLY PLEASURES

'Peter Lovesey writes feel-good crime yet he never lets the comedy vitiate the mystery' THE TIMES

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When his former deputy, Julie, invites Detective Peter Diamond and his partner Paloma to spend a week at her home in the depths of rural Somerset, Diamond is horrified. What could be worse than seven days in the back end of nowhere with nothing to do?

But it turns out that Julie has an ulterior motive. A local woman is doing time for manslaughter after a wild party ended in a tragic accident: a man suffocated in a silo of grain. Nobody in the village has much sympathy for Claudia, the unruly daughter of a wealthy local farmer. Nobody that is, except Julie, who is convinced there's more to this case than there appears, and wants her former boss to investigate.

And as Diamond tests his skills as an amateur sleuth, he soon discovers that the countryside isn't quite so dull as he'd anticipated . . .

Lovesey derives genuine emotion from Diamond's potential retirement, and his golden age-style plotting is as tight as ever. This sends the series out on a high note -- Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review
Diamond shines one last time . . . Superb -as always. -- PETERBOROUGH TELEGRAPH
The consummate professional Peter Lovesey has served up another tantalising treat of a mystery DEADLY PLEASURES
A compelling and positive farewell to one of the most iconic fictional detectives of the past thirty years. Mystery People

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.

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