Bettie's Books
A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.
Bloodhounds (Peter Diamond #4) by Peter Lovesey
bookshelves: spring-2013, series, bath, britain-england, published-1996, books-about-books-and-book-shops, mystery-thriller, paper-read, one-penny-wonder, under-500-ratings
Opening: Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was suffering in the rear seat of a police car scorching towards Bath along the Keynesham bypass with the headlamps on full beam, blue light pulsing and siren wailing.
Bath Abbey, a water colour by Turner
The end was a bit of a pizzle, however Lovesey had covered this in the storyline by stating that a locked-room puzzle was only mentally captivating whilst it remained unsolved, and usually, the denoument was rather boring.
Such was the case here. And the (view spoiler) other thread of the story was unsatisfactory.
A Locked-Boat Adventure
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