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Beau Death: Detective Peter Diamond Book 17
Peter Lovesey
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Peter Diamond investigates a mystery of the past in the seventeenth case for the brilliant Bath detective.
A wrecking ball crashes through the roof of a terraced cottage in Bath and exposes a skeleton in eighteenth-century clothes. Can these possibly be the remains of Beau Nash, the so-called King of Bath, whose body is said to have ended up in a pauper's grave?
Peter Diamond, the city's most experienced detective, is ordered to investigate, but grappling with historical events causes ructions in his team until everyone is diverted by a modern killing during a fireworks display on the Royal Crescent lawn.
But Beau Nash refuses to be ignored - and when astonishing new facts emerge about the case, Bath's history is rewritten and mysteries ancient and modern are fused in a devastating climax.
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Praise for Beau Death: Detective Peter Diamond Book 17
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'If you like your police procedurals intriguing, solid and well-written, Lovesey's your man' - Weekend SportLovesey's storytelling is darkly funny, with richly drawn characters, detailed police procedure, brilliant dialogue and impeccable plotting - Ellery Queen's Mystery MagazinePacing, dialogue, exposition, backstory - nobody handles them better than Lovesey - Booklist'Lovesey moves from one dexterously nested puzzle to the next with all the confidence of a magician' - Kirkus Reviews'One of Lovesey's cleverest . . . full of his trademark wry humour' - Publisher's Weekly'There's plenty of suspense here - action too - all told in Lovesey's effortlessly elegant manner' - Booklist
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