Author : Peter Lovesey
What is it about : A good old "whodunit" with a twist of the Frankenstein legend thrown in as an entertaining distraction. With all the suspects and red herrings at large and so our no nonsense Detective Peter Diamond ran around the blocks in Bath (!) to find the person(s) with the smoking gun. So who killed the art dealer and whacked a policeman unconscious ? Could it be the gentle American professor whose wife had gone missing and later found to have checked-in to The Ritz in Paris ? Or did the art-craze city councillor have a few skeletons in his cupboard ? What about the drug addict nephew who inherited a fortune from his deceased uncle who just happened to be the last person known to be present at the scene of the crime ? Caught between his family life, career prospects and being led down a few blind alleys, could our inspector figure it out ? Read on and take a ride with him and his British wit.
Some thoughts after having read the book : Tantalising clues they might have been, but I was not particularly led astray by those colorful, dubious, ignorant characters in the line-up. Perhaps it was just the thought that surely it had to be one of the "usual suspects", otherwise the whole book would have been a farce - a common "problem" in a whodunit. Nevertheless, the chases around Bath and the British humour jogged some fond memories and nostalgia about good old England ...
Would I recommend this book to you : Pick up the book for its wit, pace, English-ness and get taken for a ride through the life in a day of our inspector - enjoy.
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