The Last Detective

Review ''A bravura performance ... slyly paced, marbled with surprise and in the end, strangely affecting.'' --The New York Times Book Review''Thickly textured, amusing, unpredictably mixing puzzle and procedural ... one of the best.'' --Los Angeles Times''A treasure.'' --Chicago Sun-Times''Not only a good story but a compelling one.'' --Boston Globe''Top-form Lovesey.'' --Kirkus Reviews''Witty ... One surprise after another.'' --Publishers Weekly Product Description [Read by Simon Prebble] Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective: a genuine gumshoe, committed to door stopping and deduction rather than fancy computer gadgetry. So when the naked body of a woman is found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath with no one willing to identify her, no marks and no murder weapon, his sleuthing abilities are tested to the limit. Struggling with a jigsaw puzzle of truant choirboys, teddy bears, a black Mercedes and Jane Austen memorabilia, Diamond persists even after the powers-that-be have decided there's enough evidence to make a conviction. About the Author Peter Lovesey is the author of more than thirty highly praised mystery novels and has been awarded the CWA Gold and Silver Dagger awards and the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement, as well as many US honors. He lives in West Sussex, England.