Beau Death

Peter Diamond investigates a mystery of the past in the seventeenth case for the brilliant Bath detective. A wrecking ball crashes through the roof of a terraced cottage in Bath and exposes a skeleton in eighteenth-century clothes. Can these possibly be the remains of Beau Nash, the so-called King of Bath, whose body is said to have ended up in a pauper's grave? Peter Diamond, the city's most experienced detective, is ordered to investigate, but grappling with historical events causes ructions in his team until everyone is diverted by a modern killing during a fireworks display on the Royal Crescent lawn. But Beau Nash refuses to be ignored - and when astonishing new facts emerge about the case, Bath's history is rewritten and mysteries ancient and modern are fused in a devastating climax.

About the author

Peter Lovesey was born in Middlesex and studied at Hampton Grammar School and Reading University, where he met his wife Jax. He won a competition with his first crime fiction novel, Wobble to Death, and has never looked back, with his numerous books winning and being shortlisted for nearly all the prizes in the international crime writing world.
He was Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and has been presented with Lifetime Achievement awards both in the UK and the US.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Lovesey, Lovesey Peter
• Publisher: Sphere
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780751570670
• ISBN: 978-0-7515-7067-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Peter Diamond Mystery; Peter Diamond Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Classic crime, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Classic crime and mystery fiction