title: Cop to Corpse (A Detective Peter Diamond Mystery)
author:  Peter Lovesey 
description: <u><b><br />Praise for </b></u><i><u><b>Cop to Corpse</b></u><br /></i><b><br /><b>Voted one of</b><i>Deadly Pleasures Magazine</i><b>s Best Mystery-Crime Novels of the Year</b><br /><br /></b>Witty and engaging.<b><br /><b><i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br /><br /><b> </b></b>The enduring draw of the Peter Diamond books derives both from the beguiling Bath cityscape and the brusque character of Diamond himself.<b><br /><b>NPR</b><br /><br /></b>One of [Peter Lovesey's] best . . . If youre not already a fan of Lovesey and Diamond, start here.<b><br /><i>Globe and Mail</i><br /><br /></b>"Nail-biting . . . Lovesey leavens the suspense with Diamonds trademark gallows humor, and closes with one of his cleverest solutions. <br /><b><i>Publishers Weekly</i>, Starred Review</b><br /><br />"The 12th book in the tremendously entertaining Peter Diamond series, and there isnt a clunker in the bunch.<br /><b><i>Mystery Scene</i></b><br /><br />[Lovesey] is still at the top of his game. <br /><b><i>Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine</i></b><br /><br />Laced with the surprises . . . [Lovesey has] earned the right to innovate in his genre, and he pushes narrative boundaries and pulls it off. No one is better at mixing puzzle and procedural.<br /><b>Open Letters Monthly</b><br /><br /> Nobody but Lovesey could thump out a gritty procedural yet instill Bath with so much charm and history that readers will have to put it on their bucket lists.<br /><b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br /><b><br /> </b>Well-crafted.<b><br /><b></b><i><b>Booklist<br /></b></i></b><br /> You want a novel written by a master of his craft . . .You want Peter Loveseys latest Peter Diamond investigation,<i>Cop to Corpse</i>.<b><br /><b><i>Shots Magazine<br /><br /></i></b></b>"<i>Cop to Corpse</i> is a great introduction to a memorable cop and his talented crew.<b><i>Huntington News</i><br /><br /><br /><u>Praise for The Peter Diamond series</u></b><i><b><br /></b></i><br />Im jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first timeyou have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.<br /><b>Sara Paretsky</b><br /><br />"These erudite and wondrously witty books are unlike any police procedural you've ever read."<br /><b><i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br /><br />Thickly textured, amusing, unpredictably mixing puzzle and procedural.... One of the best.<br /><b><i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br /><br />Witty . . . A perfectly realized murder mystery.<br /><b><i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br /><br />Extremely stylish, lighter than air . . . utterly surprising.<br /><b><i>Newsweek</i></b><br /><br />Loveseys books are so beautifully constructed and cleanly written that they could be used as textbooks in a crime writing course.<br /><b><i>Chicago Tribune</i></b>
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  Also by Peter Lovesey
  
  
  Sergeant Cribb series
  
  
  wobble to death
  
  
  the detective wore silk drawers
  
  
  abracadaver
  
  
  mad hatter’s holiday
  
  
  the tick of death
  
  
  a case of spirits
  
  
  swing, swing together
  
  
  waxwork
  
  
  Peter Diamond series
  
  
  the last detective
  
  
  diamond solitaire
  
  
  the summons
  
  
  bloodhounds
  
  
  upon a dark night
  
  
  the vault
  
  
  diamond dust
  
  
  the house sitter
  
  
  the secret hangman
  
  
  skeleton hill
  
  
  stagestruck
  
  
  cop to corpse
  
  
  the tooth tattoo
  
  
  the stone wife
  
  
  down among the dead men
  
  
  another one goes tonight
  
  
  beau death
  
  
  Hen Mallin series
  
  
  the circle
  
  
  the headhunters
  
  
  Other Fiction
  
  
  the false inspector dew
  
  
  keystone
  
  
  rough cider
  
  
  on the edge
  
  
  the reaper
  
  
  bertie: the complete prince of wales mysteries
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Peter Lovesey
  
  
  Published by
  
  
  Soho Press, Inc.
  
  
  853 Broadway
  
  
  New York, NY 10003
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  
  Lovesey, Peter, author.
  
  
  Killing with Confetti / Peter Lovesey.
  
  
  Series: A De