Un flic en voie de disparition

Londres en cette fin de XIXe siècle est la capitale de tous les excès, de toutes les excentricités. Pétrie de sciences occultes de pacotilles qui offrent des frissons à bon marché, la bonne société londonienne s'est entichée des séances de spiritisme. Plus de réception réussie sans médium, plus de dîner sans faire tourner les tables entre dessert et café...
Mais les criminels, eux, gardent les pieds bien sur terre. Et quand l'hôte friand de spiritisme possède une collection de tableaux à faire pâlir l'Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts elle-même, les esprits invoqués ne repartent pas les mains vides. Un gibier inhabituel pour le sergent Cribb et pour Scotland Yard, plus habitués aux crimes crapuleux qu'aux ectoplasmes cambrioleurs...

Maux d'esprits

Bouchers, vandales et compagnie - [nouvelles

Of all the weird characters Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond has met in Bath, this one is the most extreme: a twenty-first-century private eye called Johnny Getz, whose office is over Shear Amazing, a hairdressing salon. Johnny has been hired by Ruby Hubbard, whose father, an antiques shop owner, has gone missing, and Johnny insists on involving 'Pete' in his investigation.
When Diamond, Johnny and Ruby enter the shop, they find a body and a murder investigation is launched. Diamond is forced to house his team in the dilapidated Corn Market building across the street. His problems grow when his boss appoints Lady Bede, from the Police Ethics Committee, as an observer. Worse still, Johnny conducts his own inquiry by latching onto Ruby's stylish friend, a journalist called Olympia.
Shootings from a drive-by gunman at key players create mayhem and the pressure is really on. Can the team stop more killings in this normally peaceful city? What happened to Ruby's father? And will Johnny crack the case before Diamond does?

Diamond and the Eye

Diamond Dust is the most difficult case of Detective Inspector Diamond's career, and the seventh book from Peter Lovesey's award-winning series.
Shortlisted for the Barry Award
When a woman is shot dead in Bath's Royal Victoria Park, it is Detective Peter Diamond who answers the call first. He is able to identify the victim immediately: his wife, Stephanie. 
Traumatised and angry for justice, Diamond eventually concedes that he cannot take part in the investigation. But when he realises that his colleagues are spending more time checking his alibi than following up on his suggestions, he decides some unauthorised investigation is needed.
Soon he is sifting through the dust of his entire career, unearthing startling and unexpected facts which bring him closer to the truth, and to avenging his beloved wife.

Diamond Dust

Butchers And Other Stories Of Crime16 stories: Butchers * Vandals * The Corder Figure * Private Gorman’s Luck * The Secret Lover * Did You Tell Daddy? * The Bathroom * Arabella’s Answer * How Mr Smith Traced His Ancestors * Fall-Out * Belly Dance * Trace of Spice * The Virgin and the Bull * The Staring Man * Woman and Home * The Locked Room

O, mes aieux!

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.

The Vault

Otis Joy, le charmant vicaire du village de Foxford, dans le Wiltshire, plaît beaucoup à ses paroissiennes qui se disputent la faveur de prendre le thé chez lui après la kermesse. Et chaque dimanche, l'église affiche salle comble à l'heure de l'office. Pourtant, ici, l'habit ne fait pas le moine Otis Joy est un jeune homme habité par le mal. Ayant découvert qu'il puisait dans la caisse de la paroisse, l'évêque se rend à son domicile pour le confondre. Fâcheuse initiative : le prélat est assassiné, avec un aplomb confondant. Peu après, quand son corps est retrouvé au fond d'une carrière, on conclut tout naturellement à un suicide... Tandis que des rumeurs commencent à circuler, des habitants de Foxford succombent l'un après l'autre, victimes de leur curiosité mal placée. Jusqu'au jour où, entraîné par l'euphorie de la réussite, le prêtre machiavélique dépasse les bornes en tuant le mari de sa toute nouvelle trésorière... Le Mal l'emportera-t-il encore une fois sur le Bien. Persifleur et cynique, Peter Lovesey met son style mordant au service d'une intrigue qui aurait pu séduire Alfred Hitchcock.

Un flic en voie de disparition

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