The House Sitter

I loved the plot and pacing and didn’t want to put it down. Detective Peter Diamond teams up with a Detective from the author’s other series, and the two strong personalities have fantastic chemistry. Two murders might be connected, and a murderer has written a manifesto naming future targets. I was......more

Got lucky finding this one available, one of the Diamond books I had not gotten to enjoy yet. Enjoy it I did! Reading this book put me in a great mood despite bad weather. Cooperation with another town and another agency, Special Branch, makes for a lively mixture of characters featuring a psycholog......more

We ran into a friend at the library recently who said she had been under a lot of stress and "I just needed to read about people being killed," which was her jokey way of saying a good murder mystery is just the mind candy we often want. That's why I picked up this book, my first Lovesey mystery, an......more

Starting few pages were a bit slow but it creates an eagerness in me to know what’s more to it, what’s next ? Who is gonna be the killer etc. Love Diamond character, secretly wanted there to be a love angle with walpurgis character especially after she gifted him the TV. Loved the idea I was reading......more

Lovesey had me laughing through this. He is right, though, that murder on a beach does not leave much for the detectives to find. This was a complicated mystery, combining as it did two seemingly distinct murders. The cast of characters is priceless in this...he is a writer with a wealth of experienc......more