Diamond Solitaire

Detective Peter Diamond Book 2

By: Peter Lovesey

Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes

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.

©1992 Peter Lovesey (P)2016 Hachette Audio UK

Critic reviews

"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. Lovesey 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)

"Superb, unashamedly traditional crime writing." ( Publishers Weekly)