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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780751553673

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 23rd January 2014

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

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The second crime story from the award-winning Peter Diamond mystery series, by Peter Lovesey.

Peter Diamond, ex-CID and notoriously difficult to work with, is sacked from his latest job as a security guard in Harrods. Doggedly he turns his sleuthing skills to unravelling the mystery of a little Japanese girl abandoned in London. Naomi, as she is known, exhibits the classic symptoms of an autistic child. Diamond regards her first as a challenge and soon as someone he cares passionately about, and devotes himself to communicating with the child. He is close to a breakthrough when Naomi is abducted to New York.

By interpreting clues from drawings left by Naomi, Diamond goes in pursuit and is plunged into a maelstrom of murder and the mafia, suicide and drugs.

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Superb, unashamedly traditional crime writing
Publishers Weekly
One of the choicest crime-shelf entertainments of the year
Guardian