Cop to Corpse Lib/E: A Peter Diamond Investigation

Product Description
In the small hours of a Sunday morning in the city of Bath, a policeman on beat duty is shot dead by an unseen gunman-the third killing of an officer in Somerset in a matter of weeks. The assassinations are the work of a sniper who seems to be everywhere and nowhere at once, always a step ahead.
The emergency services are summoned. Ambitious to arrest the Somerset Sniper, the duty inspector, Ken Lockton, seals the crime scene, which is confined by the river on one side and a massive retaining wall on the other. He discovers the murder weapon in a garden-and is himself attacked and left for dead.
Enter Peter Diamond, Bath's burly CID chief. Middle-aged and not built for action, he pits himself and his team against the killer in a hunt that will test his physical powers to the limit-for the evidence is starting to suggest that the killer just may be one of Britain's finest.
Review
Lovesey...is still at the top of his game.-- "Deadly Pleasures"


Nail-biting...Lovesey leavens the suspense with Diamond's trademark gallows humor, and closes with one of his cleverest solutions.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review) "


The twelfth book in the tremendously entertaining Peter Diamond series, and there isn't a clunker in the bunch.-- "Mystery Scene"
About the Author
Peter Lovesey, the author of more than thirty highly praised mystery novels, has won the British Crime Writers' Association Silver and Gold Dagger awards as well as the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement and the Strand Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. In the United States, he has received Edgar and Dilys nominations, an Anthony Award and a Macavity Award, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, among others. In 2018, he was named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master.


Simon Prebble, a British-born performer, is a stage and television actor and veteran narrator of some three hundred audiobooks. As one of AudioFile's Golden Voices, he has received thirty-seven Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie in 2010. He lives in New York.