Product Description

The House Sitter The identification of the woman found murdered on Whiteview Sands poses more questions than it answers. Emma Tysoe was a respected psychologist and an official criminal profiler with several successful cases to her credit. Peter Diamond is brought into the investigation to shed some light on the matter - and discovers that she had been secretly commissioned to work on the profile of the person who has assassinated one celebrity and is threatening to kill more. Are these killings connected to Emma's death? Diamond thinks so, but he cannot persuade his colleagues to agree with him, and even he cannot make all the pieces fit the jigsaw he's envisaged. Upon a Dark Night Peter Diamond, the traditionalist dinosaur of Bath CID, finds the low murder rate in the city a touch frustrating, so he decides to check whether a couple of suicides which his colleague is investigating have been accurately classified. But soon Diamond has a 'proper' case to get his teeth into when a woman's body is found in the garden of a flat after a somewhat drunken party. None of the other guests knew her and it is not clear whether she slipped, jumped or was pushed. Without any clue as to the woman's identity, Diamond certainly has a puzzle to satisfy his quirky talents.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #126797 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 752 pages

Review
'No-one has done this kind of thing better since Dorothy L. Sayers ... A must for crime buffs.' Mail on Sunday

About the Author
Peter Lovesey's first novel WOBBLE TO DEATH introduced the redoubtable Victorian policemen, Cribb and Thackeray. He has won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for THE FALSE INSPECTOR DEW and the Silver Dagger three times - twice for novels about his Bath detective Peter Diamond. In 2000 he joined the elite group of people awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award.

Customer Reviews

chilling
The two stories in this book are very gripping, and I found myself connecting very strongly with the characters as the writing is both sharp and detailed. I had read The House Sitter before, but I enjoyed it every bit as much as the first time. Upon A Dark Night is excellent. If you want to lose yourself in gritty mystery, and enjoy police procedural novels, then this omnibus is the one for you!

A Good Read
This is well worth reading not for the faint hearted though but a really good value read.

two stories in one book
Took away for a few days, the first story was set in the area I was visiting. Then the next story was also set in the area I had moved on to, so it all became a bit wierd.

Easy to read and would recommend, not a page turner but certainly entertaining.