Battle and burial are built into the history of Lansdown Hill, so it is no great shock when part of a skeleton is unearthed there. But Peter Diamond, Bath's Head of CID, can't ignore the fresh corpse found close to the folly known as Beckford's Tower. The hill becomes the setting for one of the most puzzling cases he has investigated, involving golf, horseracing, Civil War re-enactment and the Cyrillic alphabet. Inevitably, Diamond butts heads with the group of vigilantes who call themselves the Lansdown Society, discovering in the process that his boss Georgina is a member. She resolves to sideline Diamond by sending him to Bristol and handing the skeleton investigation to his deputy, Keith Halliwell. Fortunately matters don't pan out as Georgina plans...
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'Good solid traditional detection...Highly enjoyable' Literary Review 'Lovesey is famous for the fine craftsmanship of his cunning plots, along with a gentle wit and a clear eye for human foibles, and his 10th book in the Diamond series is a perfect showcase for all those skills' Morning Star 'Customary wit and gentle humour that mystery lovers have come to expect from the British master of the genre' Boston Globe 'Diamond is a classic' New York Times 'Lovesey's combination of wit, deduction and great characters is on display in a cunning mystery that would make Agatha Christie envious' The Globe and Mail (Toronto) 'Peter Lovesey is the real deal - a top master of the police procedural' The Seattle Times 'Thank goodness for Peter Lovesey. When you pick up a book with his name on it, you can always be assured of a good read' Denver Post 'A satisfyingly twisty crime thriller' Sunday Telegraph
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Peter Lovesey's novels and short stories have won him awards all over the world, including the Gold, Silver and Cartier Diamond Daggers of the Crime Writers' Association, of which he was Chairman in 1991-2. He also recently won the CWA Short Story Dagger. He lives in Chichester.
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PETER LOVESEY is the author of the Peter Diamond mysteries, well known for their use of surprise, strong characters and hard-to-crack puzzles. He was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2000, the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, the Anthony, the Ellery Queen Readers' Award and is Grand Master of the Swedish Academy of Detection. He has been a full-time author since 1975, and was formerly in further education. Earlier series include the Sergeant Cribb mysteries seen on TV and the Bertie, Prince of Wales novels. The Diamond novels, set in Bath, England, where Peter lived for some years, feature a burly, warm-hearted, but no-nonsense police detective whose personal life becomes as engaging to the reader as the intricate mysteries he solves. His team in Bath CID includes the ex-journo Ingeborg Smith, the long-serving Keith Halliwell and the meticulous John Leaman, all involved in what is essentially a fair-play procedural mystery series. Peter and his wife Jax, who co-scripted the TV series, have a son, Phil, also a teacher and mystery writer, and a daughter Kathy, who was a Vice-President of J.P.Morgan-Chase, and now lives with her family in Greenwich, Ct. Peter currently lives in Chichester, England. His website at www.peterlovesey.com gives fuller details of his life and books. "Try him. You'll love him," wrote the doyen of the mystery world, Otto Penzler, in the New York Sun.
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Peter Lovesey does it again!,
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One of the reasons I recommend Peter Lovesey to all my friends is the consistently high standard of his books. Most authors tend to flag after a dozen or so books, but not this one! He writes well, I often, quite uncharacteristically, chuckle aloud while reading and the plots are intriguing without being confusing. I enjoyed this book as much as any - and I have read all the Peter Diamond series. One thing, I would recommend that readers who are new to Peter Lovesey start at the first Diamond mystery and work their way through them, since there are always numerous references to earlier occurances. Whether or not this would leave a new reader wondering if he had missed something, I can't say, since I am aware of the background. I have no hesitation in giving Skeleton Hill five stars.
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Good mystery. Well written. Lovesy is one of my favorite authors. I never woule have guessed the ending.
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