This is a lovely book; I took an evening earlier this week and just
wallowed in it.

This is yet another of Lovesey’s Peter Diamond novels; it takes place
just about a year after Diamond Dust. Diamond is back in
the saddle, and working with his team–I said, after the last book, that
I was really looking forward to seeing Diamond working with his team
instead of investigating as a loner, and I got my wish–but he still
hasn’t really come to terms with the death of his wife.

Meanwhile, there’s a murder on a beach in another county; the victim
proves to be from Bath, which drags Diamond in, and further turns out
to have been a “profiler”, working in a very hush hush murder case–could
there be a link? The Powers That Be say “No!”; Diamond says “Maybe!”;
you figure out.

There are lots of lovely bits in this book, but I won’t spoil them for
you; I’ll just say that the first chapter is as neat a bit of deception
as I’ve come across in a long while, and that we might have spotted a new
love interest for Diamond.