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    Diamond Solitaire: Detective Peter Diamond Book 2

    Peter Lovesey

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    Peter Diamond, ex-CID and notoriously difficult to work with, is sacked from his latest job as a security guard in Harrods. Doggedly he turns his sleuthing skills to unravelling the mystery of a little Japanese girl abandoned in London. Naomi, as she is known, exhibits the classic symptoms of an autistic child. Diamond regards her first as a challenge and soon as someone he cares passionately about, and devotes himself to communicating with the child. He is close to a breakthrough when Naomi is abducted to New York.

    By interpreting clues from drawings left by Naomi, Diamond goes in pursuit and is plunged into a maelstrom of murder and the mafia, suicide and drugs.

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    More books by Peter Lovesey
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    Diamond and the Eye
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    The Finisher
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    Invitation to a Dynamite Party
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    Beau Death
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    Praise for Diamond Solitaire

    • Superb, unashamedly traditional crime writing - Publishers Weekly

    • One of the choicest crime-shelf entertainments of the year - Guardian

    • Excellent. - BIRMINGHAM POST

    • Phone-off-the-hook-time. - INDEPENDENT

    • Here is a classic quest story intertwining kidnapping, murder, deception, fraud and farce with a Sumo wrestler in the unlikely role of fairy godmother. Lovesay sustains his reputation as a deft mystifier in one of the choicest crime-shelf entertainments of the year. - GUARDIAN

    • Lovesey hatches the trickiest of plots, warmed with humour and characterisation to make them credible. - LITERARY REVIEW

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    Peter Lovesey

    Peter Lovesey

    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.

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