Cop to Corpse
Large Print - 2012
In the small hours of a Sunday morning in the city of Bath a policeman on beat duty is shot dead by an unseen gunman - the third killing of an officer in Somerset in a matter of weeks. The emergency services are summoned. Ambitious to arrest the Somerset Sniper, the duty inspector, Ken Lockton, seals the crime scene, which is confined by the river on one side and a massive retaining wall on the other. He discovers the murder weapon in a garden - and is himself attacked and left for dead. Enter Peter Diamond, Bath's burly CID chief, he pits himself and his team against the killer in a hunt that will test his physical powers to the limit.
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Publisher:
[Bath] : AudioGO, 2012
Edition:
Large print ed
Description:
441 p. (large print) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781445828176
9781445828183
9781445828183
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LP Love
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Add a CommentAll of Peter Lovesey's novels are well written but "Cop to Corpse" seems even more so. First, it deals with a very serious issue. Second, Peter Lovesey introduces Jack Gull, Head of the Serial Crimes Unit, who is more obstinate than Peter Diamond. Then Peter Lovesey introduces Jack Gull's assistant, Detective Inspector Polehampton, a bungler for comic relief. For fans of puzzlers, I would rate "Cop to Corpse" at 4.25 stars.
Well worth reading. Parallel blog story was confusing and ultimately unsatisfying, But who cares: Lovesay and his Peter Diamond are great!
Ingenious. Lovesey spins this plot you're sure not to solve till the last chapter. Red herrings abound. Peter Diamond, the book's chief character is Bath, England's CID chief. And then there are the three victims: three coppers shot, seemingly at random. But is it as straightforwardly simple as that? Of course not. It never is in a good detective-mystery novel. And "Cops..." surely fits the bill.
And you know what? I've found another author/protagonist combination to pursue.
Not his best novel. Plot line is a bit tedious and the Diamond character is less than endearing by times. The cop killer got a very heavy sentence for some reason when there were clearly mental health issues while the others got off light. Was author trying to make a point?
Another intriguing mystery in this procedural series. I liked it more than the last one b/c you didn't get all the info ahead of time to guess the ending.
This wasn't a bad book by any means but I've found other works in this series more entertaining.