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В озере неподалеку от знаменитого курортного города Бат находят труп Джеральдин Джекман, в прошлом — звезды популярного телесериала, впоследствии — просто супруги респектабельного ученого. Но кто же убил Джеральдин? Муж, уставший от ее истерик и нервных срывов? Влюбленная в ее мужа одинокая женщина, мечтающая о браке с ним? Наркодилер, которому жертва крупно задолжала? Или кто-то, кого невозможно даже заподозрить в столь жестоком преступлении?.. Суперинтенданту Питеру Даймонду предстоит расследовать одно из самых непростых дел в его карьере…

Японская девочка потерялась в знаменитом лондонского универмаге «Харродс» и была обнаружена охранниками только после закрытия, — казалось бы, что в этом криминального? Однако Питер Даймонд уверен: это не банальная случайность! Где родители малышки? Почему ее никто не ищет? И, что самое главное, почему она упорно молчит и не идет на контакт со взрослыми? Прежде, чем он успевает получить ответы на эти вопросы, девочка бесследно исчезает из приюта, и Даймонд пускается на поиски, в которых промедление может стоить ребенку жизни…

Самое необычное дело суперинтенданта Питера Даймонда. Полиция Бата поднята по тревоге — из тюрьмы cбежал Джон Маунтджой, приговоренный к пожизненному заключению за убийство шведской журналистки. Более того, он ухитрился вернуться в Бат и взять в заложницы дочь местного крупного полицейского чиновника. Единственное требование Маунтджоя — повторное расследование его дела. Он утверждает, что убийства не совершал.... Неужели Даймонд, который вел дело, совершил ошибку? Неужели из-за него пострадал невиновный? Шаг за шагом детектив пытается понять, что же упустил много лет назад…

Члены литературного детективного клуба "Ищейки" привыкли разгадывать книжные преступления. Но на этот раз им пришлось стать свидетелями настоящих преступлений! Сначала у эксцентричного пожилого Майло Моциона обнаруживается похищенная из музея накануне бесценная старинная марка. А потом происходит загадочное убийство... , Но кто и зачем избавился от самого тихого и неприметного из "литературных детективов" ночного сторожа Сида Тауэрса? Как его труп попал на яхту все того же Моциона? Почему таинственный анонимный осведомитель пытается обвинить в этом преступлении еще одного члена клуба — преуспевающуюю галеристку Джессику Шоу? Пока у…

A young woman is dumped, injured and unconscious, in a private hospital’s parking lot. She is an amnesiac with no memory prior to her discovery by hospital personnel. Detective Inspector Peter Diamond of the Bath homicide squad is unwilling to become involved. He has other, more important cases to solve: A woman has plunged to her death from the roof of a local landmark while half the young people of Bath partied below, and an elderly farmer has shot himself. Are these apparent suicides what they seem, or are there sinister forces at work? And might the amnesiac woman hold the key to both cases?

A skeletal hand is unearthed in the vault under the Pump Room in Bath, England, near the site where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Then a skull is excavated. The bones came from different corpses, and one is modern. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must solve a series of crimes including murder and forgery, requiring a knowledge of history, nineteenth century art, literature . . . and human nature.

Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is confronted with a crime that comes too close to home. His beloved wife has been killed, apparently just the most recent victim in a series of murders of police spouses. Despite his superior's orders to leave the solution of this crime to other members of the force, he is determined to find the killer himself.

The corpse of a beautiful woman, clad in only a bathing suit, is found strangled to death on a popular Sussex beach. When she is finally identified, it turns out she was a top profiler for the National Crime Faculty, who was working on the case of a serial killer. And though she was a Bath resident, the authorities don't want Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond to investigate the murder. How strange. What could they be trying to hide?

Widowed Inspector Peter Diamond is being pursued by a secret admirer as he pursues a serial killer. Delia Williamson, a mother of two young girls who works as a waitress, is first reported missing by her own mother. She is found in a public park, hanged from the crossbar of a children’s swing set. There seems to be no reason for her to have committed suicide, and the postmortem reveals that she was murdered. Her present partner, her ex-husband, and a traveling salesman who dined at her table in the restaurant where she worked, are all suspects. Then her former husband is found in a cave, also hanged. A remorse suicide? Diamond doesn’t think…

Предубеждениями и легендами наполнена атмосфера театра Ройял в английском городе Бате. Идеальное место действия для загадочного убийства. Но преступление происходит не на сцене, и пока группа детектива-суперинтендента Питера Даймонда ищет убийцу, атмосфера зловеще сгущается.

PC Harry Trasker is the third policeman in the Bath area to be shot dead in less than twelve weeks. The assassinations are the work of a sniper no one has been able to pin down. The younger detectives are no match for this murderer and his merciless agenda. This is a job for Inspector Peter Diamond, and it might be the most dangerous investigation of his life.

Peter Diamond, head of Bath CID, takes a break in Vienna, but gal Paloma calls quits on love. Jobbing musician Mel Farran joins once-famous string quartet in a residency at Bath Spa University - but their last violinist vanished without a trace. Can a body in a city canal be identified by a tattoo of a music note on one of her teeth?

Book 14 in the Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond series, one of Soho's bestselling and most critically acclaimed series, this time including a Chauceresque twist. At a Bath auction house, a large slab of carved stone is up for sale. At the height of very competitive bidding, there is a holdup attempt by three masked robbers. They shoot and kill the highest bidder, a professor who has recognized the female figure carved in the stone as Chaucer’s Wife of Bath. The masked would-be thieves flee, leaving the stone behind. Peter Diamond and his team are assigned to investigate, and the stone is moved into Diamond’s office so he can…

In a Sussex town on the southeast coast of England, a widely disliked art teacher at a posh private girls’ school disappears without explanation. None of her students miss her boring lessons, especially since her replacement is a devilishly hunky male teacher with a fancy car. But then her name shows up on a police missing persons list. What happened to Miss Gibbon, and why does no one seem to care? Meanwhile, detective Peter Diamond finds himself in Sussex, much against his wishes. His irritating and often obtuse supervisor, Assistant Chief Constable Georgina Dallymore, has made Diamond accompany her on a Home Office internal…

In the sixteenth entry of Peter Lovesey’s timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond wrestles with his own moral compass, struggling to protect police prestige while debating what it means to do right by a serial killer. Two police officers are about to head home after a long night shift when they receive one last call. En route to investigate, the patrol car spins off the road, killing one of the exhausted cops and leaving the other in critical condition. Detective Peter Diamond is assigned to look into the case. His supervisor is desperately hoping Diamond will not discover the officers were at fault. Instead, Diamond…

Peter Diamond, British detective extraordinaire, must dig deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous) icons: Richard “Beau” Nash, who might be the victim of a centuries old murder. Bath, England: A wrecking crew is demolishing a row of townhouses in order to build a grocery store when they uncover a skeleton in one of the attics. The dead man is wearing authentic 1760s garb and on the floor next to it is a white tricorn hat—the ostentatious signature accessory of Beau Nash, one of Bath’s most famous historical men-about-town, a fashion icon and incurable rake who, some say, ended up in a…