Cop to Corpse
A Peter Diamond Investigation

I love Peter Lovesey's Peter Diamond series. For those of you who don't know Inspector Diamond, you are in for a wonderful discovery if you begin to read this series. Diamond is a real "diamond-in-the-rough". A cop's cop who uses old fashioned policing and a lot of natural savvy to solve some pretty......more

The 18th Diamond book should be out in a week, so this 12th book served as appetizer for me. A very engaging police hunt for a sniper with policemen as his/her target. The serial killer unit from headquarters comes to Diamond's territory with their armed men in all-night stakeouts with Diamond laid......more

This was one of Diamond’s great solves because it was so painful and so complex. He was persistent and had to collaborate with others, which he managed admirably. But his deductive skills were just very very honed in this one, leading him here and there and finally to a solution. I loved this one and......more

Because Cop to Corpse is my first exposure to Peter Lovesey’s Peter Diamond series, I am certainly no expert on the character or its development over the course of the series’s eleven previous books. But if the other eleven are as entertaining as this one, this detective series should be investigate......more

I read a few other books in this series, but I'm pretty sure I stopped going back for more when the female detective started talking like a feminist cartoon character. Maybe such women exist, but I have no interest in reading about them. It's not the 'woman in a man's world' matter I dislike, it's t......more