Peter (Harmer) Lovesey (born 1936 in Whitton, Middlesex) is a British writer of historical and contemporary crime novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath. Lovesey's novels and stories mainly fall into the category of entertaining puzzlers in the "Golden Age" tradition of mystery writing. He is also well known as a writer of non-fiction histories of track & field athletics and several of his novels have used the sport as a theme. His first-ever book in 1968 was The Kings of Distance, a study of five great runners, Most of Peter Lovesey's writing has been done under his own name. However, he did write three novels under the pen name Peter Lear. Lovesey's novels and short stories have won him a number of awards, including both the Gold and Silver Daggers of the Crime Writers' Association, of which he was chairman in 1991/92. In 2000, he received the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement in crime writing and in 2018 he was made a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. Peter Lovesey lives near Shrewsbury. His son Phil Lovesey also writes crime novels.
Series
Books
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2019
Bloodhounds
1996
Reader, I Buried Them & Other Stories
2022
Down Among the Dead Men
2015
Stagestruck
2011
The Summons
1995
Murder on the Short List
2008
The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime
1998
Du sang sous le sapin
Nouvelles
2001
A Case Of Spirits
1975
Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose
1998
The Last Detective
1991
Diamond Solitaire
1992
Bertie and the Crime of Passion
1993
Keystone
1984
Reader's Digest Great Detective Stories
1998
Skeleton Hill
2009
Swing, Swing Together
1976
The House Sitter
2003
Remaindered
2014
Beau Death
2017
The Secret Hangman
2007
The Circle
2005
Showstopper
2022
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
1971
Upon A Dark Night
1997
Bertie and the Seven Bodies
1990
Diamond and the Eye
2021
The Headhunters
2008
Bertie And The Tinman
1987
Wobble to Death
1970
Invitation To A Dynamite Party
1974
Killing with Confetti
2019
Waxwork
1978
Bibliomysteries Volume 2
2021
Mad Hatter's Holiday
1973
Against the Grain
2024
Rough Cider
1986
The Tooth Tattoo
2013
Butchers & Other Stories of Crime
1985
Abracadaver
1972
The Finisher
2020
The Reaper
2001
Cop To Corpse
2012
Anne Perry Presents Malice Domestic
1997
Diamond Dust
2002
The Stone Wife
2014
The False Inspector Dew
1981
The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories
1994
Another One Goes Tonight
2016
On the Edge
1989
The Vault
1999
