Killing with Confetti

Somewhat disappointed by this book; I had expected the usual, wisecracking Peter Diamond and his professional colleagues. However the professional colleagues have been turned into anti-terrorist squad. Diamond was surprised bythe target not going after the crime king but rather the police deputy superintendent. The jagged beginning and the latter 3/4 are welded together but not as satisfactorily as in the earlier stories of detection.Still looking forward to next year's Peter Diamond novel. Last year's mystery of Beau Brummel and the Y-fold of the underwear was quite amusing.T. Tanaka.T. Tanaka

Peter Diamond manages again to deduce the right conclusion without the usual detective posturing. Fun to read. Good series, set in Bath.

Not too hard to figure out but a good read nonetheless. I look forward to more Peter Diamond books ( one more word required)

Great storyline. Great mystery.. The guilty party kept under wraps until the very end. Did I see it coming? Absolutely not! Well done. A little dry, but typical British fare. Good Read. Enjoy.

At first I thought I had been sent the wrong blook. Most of it seemed to be written by a different author. The book really dragged, the characters are tiresome, lack of humor, easy to figure out. Tooth Tattoo is the best Diamond, Killing with Confetti leaves a lot to be desired.

Another great one from Peter Lovesey. About different than some of his others but the usual boffo ending. It’s always a major character that does the deed but you need the final pages to suds it out

Another excellent story involving Peter Diamond and his team. It is beautifully crafted and the reconstruction in the Roman baths added a wonderful twist. More Diamond books please Mr Lovesey!

I have always liked the Peter Diamond books and I love the setting in Bath, a town I have visited and enjoyed. This one satisfies very well on both sides. Recommended.

Peter Lovesey must be among our most prolific crime novelists, publishing a novel every year since the 1970s. In addition to a number of stand-alone books, his copious output has included three series of novels. The first of these featured the lugubrious Sergeant Cribb (‘of the Detective), who, with his even more lugubrious sidekick, Constable Thackeray, investigated a sequence of crimes in Victorian London. These were followed by a handful of books in which ‘Bertie’, the cheery pre-succession incarnation of the later King Edward VII, encountered, and eventually solved, various crimes. These were fairly successful, and the Cribb books subsequently made their way onto television during the early 1980s.;His greatest success, however, came in the 1990s when he introduced his most-enduring character, the querulous Superintendent Peter Diamond, who heads the Homicide Division in Bath. Given the photogenic nature of Bath, I am rather surprised that the Diamond novels have not also made their way onto television. The combination of glorious setting, soundly constructed plots and idiosyncratic protagonist might have been expected to make an eminently exportable television series, reprising the Morse/Lewis/Endeavour effect seen in Oxford. Perhaps it is simply down to the authorities in Bath who might feel that the city’s roads are already so heavily congested that the disruption arising from blockages for filming, and the consequential increase in tourism are not to be borne.This latest book is the eighteenth novel featuring Peter Diamond, and sees him roped in, against his better judgement, to supervise the security arrangements when the Deputy Chief Constable’s son marries the daughter of the gangland boss, only recently released from a lengthy prison sentence, who had masterminded much of the city’s crime. All rather implausible, of course, but once the reader makes the initial suspension of disbelief, the novel follows on fairly smoothly.To be fair, this is not one of Lovesey’s better novels, and I suspect that anyone who first encounters the series through this book is unlikely to be inspired to look back at some of its predecessors. They would lose out, because several of the earlier novels, and Bloodhounds and The Stone Wife in particular, are very good.

Shortly at Bath's Abbey a wedding to cause much official ill ease. Just out of prison, mobster Joe Irwin will see his daughter marry none other than the son of Deputy Chief Constable George Bruce. Irwin has many enemies. What an opportunity to settle scores!. Most reluctantly, Senior Detective Peter Diamond is appointed minder of a man he loathes. Bloodshed ahead? Surely inevitable.One of a long series but great on its own. In fact it may be an advantage not to have read the others, several fans regretting a change from the usual format.From the start I was hooked, admiring most greatly a writer so skilfully wrongfooting the reader. Often the novel heads in unexpected directions. Only towards the end is it possible to appreciate how ingeniously all has been engineered. There is, for example, a long wait before the wedding itself, emphasis on tension building in attempts to ensure top security. Readers know, authorities do not, a determined assassin is also painstakingly making plans....Increasing suspense. Good characterization, Diamond considering Irwin "more slippery than a cowshed floor". Admittedly there is the cliche of a Poirot-style finale: key people involved assembled as everything is (rather lengthily) revealed. Full marks for those, if any, who correctly deduce the one to be unmasked.Read virtually in one go and greatly enjoyed. Not one of Lovesey's best? What an incentive to seek out the others.

I have read a number of this author’s books, a fair time ago but lost the enthusiasm. Thought I would give him another go but disappointed. From the start feels manufactured and the denouement would not shame Agatha Christie, an explanation but no actual proof and just waiting for the culprit to confess or betray himself. Entertaining if you ignore the deficiencies and you find the detective appealing, I feel he is just an anachronism.

This page turning thriller delivers.There are a few false steps though, of the type: "Dear Reader, if you ever buy a house in Bath get a good survey done first." For a moment the fiction author is talking directly to you and you are taken out of the story, no longer totally immersed in it. Why has Peter Diamond suddenly decided to give me house buying advice, direct to me?Still 5 stars though!

I am a fan of Peter Lovesey and the Peter Diamond novels but I have to say this failed to impress me. There was really no crime to investigate and I felt it lacked suspense and intrigue. The ending was contrived and weak and not convincing, the story line just not gripping for me. Very disappointed. I hope the next novel is back on form .