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Down Among the Dead Men

Detective Peter Diamond Book 15

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Down Among the Dead Men

By: Peter Lovesey
Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
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About this listen

A nightmare discovery in the boot of a stolen BMW plunges car thief Danny Stapleton into the worst trouble of his life. What links his misfortune to the mysterious disappearance of an art teacher at a private school for girls in Chichester? Orders from above push Peter Diamond of Bath CID into investigating a police corruption case in the Chichester force, and he soon finds himself reluctantly dealing with spirited schoolgirls, eccentric artists and his formidable old colleague, Hen Mallin.

©2015 Peter Lovesey (P)2015 Hachette Audio Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Crime

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Critic reviews

"In his lengthy career, veteran novelist Peter Lovesey has supplied the most diverting (and elegantly written) crime fiction." ( Good Book Guide)
"Diamond is a wonderfully rounded character whose lines are witty and whose observations about people's characters and motives are brilliantly insightful. Vintage Diamond mystery, spiced by his comic encounters with his supervisor: a must for devotees of character-driven British crime fiction." ( Booklist)
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A well written and woven story. The humour is well placed and dry (do snails pray?!!). Excellently read by Michael Tudor Barnes who brings each character alive and kicking into the imagination To understand some of the storylines and character motives it would be best to start listening with the first book in the series but ... you could give it a go without!

Brilliant!

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A great plot, bringing various strands together ingeniously. Many varied and fascininating characters with natural-sounding dialogue.

An original mystery in an unusual setting

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I have a few audio and kindle books by Peter Lovesey but my most favourite are the Inspector Diamond series and this one did not disappoint.

Download it and enjoy a few ours if great narration with a story that keeps you guessing to the end !

Loved this book - perfect listening whilst crafting

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Diamond's worse nightmare could be working as an investigative team with his boss Georgina. When it happens they are sent to review the conduct of a police officer in West Sussex accused of misconduct. Diamond has to manipulate his boss, tiptoe around the hostile local force and try to clean the suspended officer whom he knows from a previous investigation involving the two police forces.

Sticky, tricky and difficult not to be on his patch but also because the picture is bigger than it first appears. Diamond has to show he is right to expand his investigation while trying to expose a much bigger racket; no easy task but Diamond is as tenacious as a bulldog.

I found it enjoyable to see Diamond off his usual patch and working without a buffer between him and Georgina.

Georgy Girl

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I read all Peter Diamond's novels and I must say this is one of the finest. With Lovesey you know he never puts anything in his books that doesn't turno out later to be of some relevance, and it was so this time too... down to the smallest details. The narrator is simply fantastic.

As great as ever

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