- Hardcover: 331 pages
- Publisher: Soho Press (2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1569472084
- ISBN-13: 978-1569472088
- Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 13.5 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 449 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,222,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A good police procedural series in a memorable setting,
By Jay Dickson (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Vault (Paperback)
The resort town of Bath, with its creamy Georgian carved stone and echoes of Jane Austen, makes a pretty fun contrast as a setting to Peter Lovesey's overweight, hot-tempered, and inappropriately joking detective, Peter Diamond. In this entry in the series, a series of events one summer month involving Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (most of which was composed in Bath) begins to unfold: first a hand in discovered in the vault under the Bath Abbey churchyard, then what may be Mary Shelley's edition of Frankenstein is uncovered by an American English professor, and then finally what may be a series of Blake illustrations for an edition of Frankenstein begin to show up. The fun of this book is waiting to see how the smaller mysteries will come together, especially when the American professor's wife goes missing and a woman's body turns up in the river. Not everything is resolved as satisfyingly as possible, but the novel has its pleasures: the professor's obsession with his quest for Shelley's writing box, the atmosphere of fancy Bath antique shops, and Diamond's grumbling and misanthropy.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Solid Entry in the Peter Diamond Series.,
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This review is from: The Vault (Paperback)
I love Peter Diamond. In this book he seems to be a little less edgy (almost mellow), and that's a bit of a disppointment, but this is still a good story. Mr. Lovesey effortlessy weaves two separate story lines and somehow manages to maintain an interesting plot. The book is deceptively low-key, but as you get into it the sense of urgency surfaces when it appears that a 20-year old murder, a modern murder and an assault and a two-century old puzzle all have something in common. In typical Lovesey fashion, this book appears simplistic at times, but then he masterfully introduces another thread that gets Peter Diamond after the scent like a bloodhound after game. Wonderful!
2.0 out of 5 stars
Plot plods while characters bore readers.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Vault (Paperback)
What a disappointment. Being from the colonies (U.S) Perhaps my disdain for this "novel" can be explained by my inability to enter into the depth charge caverns of the British mind. But, since I applaud Rendell, Reginald Hill and some of Rankin, I can not be accused of some kind of prejudice against the mother country. Poor plotting, even worse characterization and s shallow main character make this one of the worst books I have read in many a year. Diamonds, sliamonds, Why doesn't England stop writing suspense novels, until the have absorbed Connelly and Cook. Shallow and poorly written, this story makes the Brit tabloids seem like Austen.
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