Bloodhounds

Notes

Bloodhounds by Peter Lovesey is a contemporary Police Procedural in which a group of crime fiction geeks become embroiled in a Locked Room Mystery. All that, and it won a Barry Award, a Macavity Award and a Silver Dagger.

Read it and feed your inner nerd.

Publisher’s Synopsis

“Darling, if ever I’ve met a group of potential murderers anywhere, it’s the Bloodhounds.” Thus says the chic, amoral Jessica Shaw of the Bloodhounds of Bath, a society that meets in a crypt to discuss crime novels. But to Shirley-Ann Miller, their latest recruit, they are a gaggle of dotty misfits, until one of them reveals that he is in possession of an immensely valuable stamp, recently stolen from the Postal Museum.

Then theft is overtaken by murder when the corpse of one of the Bloodhounds is found in a locked houseboat, with the only key in the possession of a man with a perfect alibi. Burly Peter Diamond finds himself embroiled in a mystery that in more than one sense evokes the classic crime puzzles of John Dickson Carr.

“No one has done this kind of thing better since Dorothy L Sayers. A must for crime buffs, especially if they like John Dickson Carr.” — Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday

“Undoubtedly another award winner.” — Mat Coward, Morning Star

“A real brain-banger … This pyrotechnic teaser had my head spinning.” — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

Read a full review of Bloodhounds by Peter Lovesey at Mystery*File.