The sixth mystery book in the award-winning Peter Diamond series, from Peter Lovesey.
When a severed hand from the vault of Bath Abbey Churchyard arrives on Peter Diamond’s desk, he is delighted to hear that, far from being a medieval relic, it is from the 1980s. But the vault is part of the house where Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was written, and a fanatical American professor is thwarting their investigation. Events are complicated even further when the professor’s wife goes missing . . .
Highly suspicious of the professor, but unable to prove anything, Diamond concentrates on trying to identify the remains, with shocking result. But before he can get any further, the owner of Bath’s largest antique emporium is brutally murdered – and the last person to see her alive was the Professor.
With consummate skill, wit and ingenuity, Peter Lovesey has crafted a whodunnit of brilliant complexity.
When a severed hand from the vault of Bath Abbey Churchyard arrives on Peter Diamond’s desk, he is delighted to hear that, far from being a medieval relic, it is from the 1980s. But the vault is part of the house where Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was written, and a fanatical American professor is thwarting their investigation. Events are complicated even further when the professor’s wife goes missing . . .
Highly suspicious of the professor, but unable to prove anything, Diamond concentrates on trying to identify the remains, with shocking result. But before he can get any further, the owner of Bath’s largest antique emporium is brutally murdered – and the last person to see her alive was the Professor.
With consummate skill, wit and ingenuity, Peter Lovesey has crafted a whodunnit of brilliant complexity.
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Reviews
No one has done this kind of thing better since Dorothy L. Sayers.
Lovesey has an extraordinary talent for picking up the conventions of the classic English detective novel and delivering them with an entirely contemporary twist.
Satisfyingly complex and suspenseful
An author who excels at his craft
Pure joy
