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Beau Death
Peter Diamond Mystery (Related to this series)
- Author
- Peter Lovesey
- Narrator
- Peter Wickham
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 14 December 2017
- Run Time
- 11 hours 47 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Classic crime and mystery fiction
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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A case that has all the ingredients of a first-rate mystery. Peter Lovesey rarely puts a foot wrong
Daily Mail
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'Lovesey moves from one dexterously nested puzzle to the next with all the confidence of a magician'
Kirkus Reviews
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'There's plenty of suspense here - action too - all told in Lovesey's effortlessly elegant manner'
Booklist
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'One of Lovesey's cleverest . . . full of his trademark wry humour'
Publisher's Weekly
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'If you like your police procedurals intriguing, solid and well-written, Lovesey's your man'
Weekend Sport
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'This is a mystery story complete with clues and red herrings; it is also a crash course in 18th-century manners.
All very enjoyable'Literary Review
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'You won't want to put it down'
Peterborough Evening Telegraph
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Peter Lovesey's characterisation, humour, and plotting are key, and I'm glad to report that these elements are here in abundance
Martin Edwards
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Astonishingly convincing and inventive
Morning Star
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Peter Lovesey - the dean of English mystery novelists - remains as ingenious as ever in Beau Death
Washington Post
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Beau Death is a doozy . . . Lovesey seems to have outdone himself with the labyrinthine maze of multiple murders and mysterious conundrums
Strand magazine
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Peter Lovesey is one author who can grab me on the title page . . . he's very, very good and knows his Bath history inside out . . . This is a great puzzle plot that will keep you guessing. Just what Lovesey does best
Toronto Globe and Mail
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The book, I am happy to say, is as tightly plotted and absorbing as the best of Lovesey's long-running series
Seattle Times
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Witty, stylish and a bit of a rogue - that's what people said about Richard Nash, known as Beau, the notorious dandy who transformed the English city of Bath into 'the 18th-century equivalent of Vegas'. The same might be said of Peter Lovesey, whose elegant mysteries pay tribute to the past glories of this beautiful city
New York Times
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It's a mystery that could easily be played for farce, but Lovesey employs his dry, caustic humor to cutting effect
Chicago Tribune
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Peter Lovesey has a knack - to borrow a phrase from the Roman philosopher Seneca - for grabbing readers by the lapels and leading or dragging them on, willy-nilly, through a maze of blind-corner surprises and unexpected plot twists . . . it's hard to imagine a more pleasurable way to read away the long hours of a quiet, wintry night
Richmond Times Dispatch
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Details
- Author
- Peter Lovesey
- Narrator
- Peter Wickham
- Duration
- 11 hours 47 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 December 2017
- ISBN
- 9781405538794
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Classic crime and mystery fiction
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
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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