num_pages: 368
description: Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective: a genuine gumshoe, committed to door-stopping and deduction rather than fancy computer gadgetry. So when the naked body of a woman is found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath with no one willing to identify her, no marks and no murder weapon, his sleuthing abilities are tested to the limit. Struggling with a jigsaw puzzle of truant choirboys, teddy bears, a black Mercedes and Jane Austen memorabilia, Diamond persists even after the powers-that-be have decided there's enough evidence to make a conviction.
language: English
title: The Last Detective
titlecomplete: The Last Detective (Peter Diamond, #1)
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Contemporary, Crime, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 6826
series: Peter Diamond
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Soho Crime