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Against the Grain

Peter Diamond, Book 22

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Against the Grain

By: Peter Lovesey
Narrated by: Peter Wickham
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About this listen

When his former deputy, Julie, invites Detective Peter Diamond and his partner Paloma to spend a week at her home in the depths of rural Somerset, Diamond is horrified. What could be worse than seven days in the back end of nowhere with nothing to do?

But it turns out that Julie has an ulterior motive. A local woman is doing time for manslaughter after a wild party ended in a tragic accident: a man suffocated in a silo of grain. Nobody in the village has much sympathy for Claudia, the unruly daughter of a wealthy local farmer. Nobody that is, except Julie, who is convinced there's more to this case than there appears, and wants her former boss to investigate.

And as Diamond tests his skills as an amateur sleuth, he soon discovers that the countryside isn't quite so dull as he'd anticipated . . .

©2024 Peter Lovesey (P)2024 Hachette Audio UK Crime Fiction Village Detective

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Critic reviews

Lovesey derives genuine emotion from Diamond's potential retirement, and his golden age-style plotting is as tight as ever. This sends the series out on a high note (Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review)
Diamond shines one last time . . . Superb -as always. (PETERBOROUGH TELEGRAPH)
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Peter Lovesey’s novels never disappoint me and Peter Wickham tells the story - portraying each character’s individuality so well that I actually feel I know them personally.

Another excellent book - Against the Grain

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Liked the variety of characters and Diamond getting a very close-up experience of farm life.

Another very different setting for the great detective!

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