Hachette India

Diamond Solitaire

Peter Lovesey

The second crime story from the award-winning Peter Diamond mystery series, by Peter Lovesey.

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.

Peter Lovesey

Born in Middlesex In 1936, Peter Lovesey was the author of 43 novels and seven collections of short stories. He is best known for his eight Victorian crime novels featuring Seargent Cribb and his flagship Peter Diamond series, which began with his Antony-award winning novel, The Last Detective, in 1991. Lovesey was the recipient of numerous awards over his lifetime, including the CWA Silver Dagger, multiple Macavity and Antony awards. He was one of a select number of writers to have been awarded both the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Special Edgar and the Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. He died in 2025 at the age of 88.

Discover more books

View Details

Diamond Solitaire

Peter Lovesey

Peter Lovesey

Discover more books

Against the Grain

Against the Grain

Showstopper

Diamond and the Eye

Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

The Finisher

Swing, Swing Together

Waxwork

Invitation to a Dynamite Party

A Case of Spirits

Mad Hatter's Holiday

Killing with Confetti

Beau Death

Wobble to Death

The Detective Wore Silk Drawers

Abracadaver

Another One Goes Tonight

Down Among the Dead Men

The Stone Wife

Dead Gorgeous

The Secret Hangman

The House Sitter

Diamond Dust

The Vault

Upon A Dark Night

The Tooth Tattoo

Bloodhounds

The Summons

The Last Detective

Cop To Corpse

Stagestruck

Skeleton Hill

The Secret Hangman

The Circle

The House Sitter