Peter Lovesey

My sixth collection of short stories was published in 2022 by Soho Press (USA) and Sphere (UK).
It includes a ‘story within a story,’ telling of an embarrassing encounter forty years ago with Ellery Queen (the late Fred Dannay) after I submitted my first-ever short story to his magazine in 1981. The Bathroom is reprinted in the new collection together...

DIAMOND AND THE EYE is published in the UK by Sphere on July 8, 2021
and in the US by Soho Press on October 12, 2021
THE SHEAR AMAZING SLEUTH

To be published in the UK in July 2020 in the USA in August 2020
Fifty years after his career was launched with Wobble to Death, Peter returns to running as a theme in his new book The Finisher.
A killer strikes in the Bath half-marathon. No one in the local CID understands at first why Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is so agitated when he sees Tony Pinto paying unwanted attention to a young woman soon after the start. But Diamond remembers...

Launched July 2019 in UK and USA
As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his long-term girlfriend, Caroline, the daughter of notorious crime baron, Joe Irving, who is coming to the end of a prison sentence. The problem is that Ben’s father, George, is the Deputy Chief Constable...