The first in his "Peter Diamond" series of mysteries.
I'm reading this series a bit out of order - so I've just finished the eighth book in the series - "House Sitter". Very good - as is the entire series. Peter Diamond is the head of the CID in Bath, and a bit of a maverick (aren't they always?). Well-written and well-plotted yarns - recommended.
We've got a number of books hanging round the house, which have gone unread because I'm not sure I fancy them. One such was "Daughter of Time" by Josephine Tey. She was a superb writer but I've always thought that this one sounded very unpromising - injured 1950s cop investigates the murder of the Princes in the Tower from his hospital bed. Read it on a train journey this week. Well... how wrong was I? It's stunningly good. The idea of a police procedural meeting a real 15th century crime works very well. But the book is more than that. It's also a reflection on which historical sources can be trusted (her answer: the ones that were never intended to be history) - which is relevant when we come to consider who will be writing the history of these horrible times.
Up next... not sure. We live in Bronte Country, and every time I cross the "wiley, windy moors" I think that I should actually get around to reading something by the sisters. So I might finally have a go at "Wuthering Heights".
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