Peter Lovesey





Peter Lovesey

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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.

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...more


Average rating: 3.70 · 5,739 ratings · 844 reviews · 53 distinct works · Similar authors
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 332 ratings — published 1981 — 10 editions
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1996 — 10 editions
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions
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