Peter Lovesey

Sub-genre: Action, Amateur detective, Archaeology, Cosy, gangster, Historical, Humour, mystery, noir, Political, Procedural, psychological, Romantic, Supernatural, suspense, True Crime

Peter Lovesey has published 42 novels and six collections of short stories since he joined the CWA in 1969. His work has been adapted for radio, TV and film and is translated into over 20 languages. His first novel, Wobble to Death, won the Macmillan/Panther first crime novel prize of £1000 and featured Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian policeman, the first of an eight-book series that was televised by Granada in 1979-80, starring Alan Dobie as Cribb.

He has written three other series, one featuring Bertie, the Prince of Wales, as an inept amateur sleuth, and two with modern police: Hen Mallin, a female Chief Inspector, and Peter Diamond, a detective superintendent with Bath CID. The long-running Diamond series has won two Silver Daggers and a number of American awards, including the Anthony, the Barry and the Macavity.

Peter won the Silver Dagger for Waxwork in 1978 and the Gold Dagger for The False Inspector Dew in 1982 and in 2000 he was honoured by the CWA with the Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 2018 the Mystery Writers of America made him a Grand Master. He is also a Grand Master of the Swedish Academy of Detection and a winner of the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He was Chair of the CWA in 1991-2. His son Phil is also a crime writer and both father and son have won the CWA short story dagger.

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Other Awards

Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement, 2019; Magna Cum Murder International Guest of Honor, 2018; Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, 2018; The Strand Critics Lifetime Achievement, 2014; Swedish Academy of Detection Grand Master, 2010; Macavity Award, 2003 & 1996; Bouchercon International Guest of Honor, 2001; Malice Domestic Guest of Honor, 1996; Mystery Masters Guest of Honor, 1996; Barry Award, 1996; Mystery Writers of America Golden Mysteries Prize, 1995; Ellery Queen Readers Award, 1991; Anthony Award, 1991; Veuve Clicquot Award, 1991; Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, 1976; Prix du Roman d’Aventures, 1975; Macmillan/Panther First Crime Novel Prize, 1970.

Books by Peter Lovesey

• Showstopper

  

• In Suspense
• The Secret of Spandau

  

• Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

  

• The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown & Other Stories
• The Sedgemoor Strangler & Other Stories of Crime
• Murder on the Short List
• Butchers & Other Stories of Crime
• Keystone
• Bertie and the Seven Bodies

  

• Bertie and the Crime of Passion

  

• Bertie and the Tinman
• Dead Gorgeous

  

• Rough Cider
• Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories
• Swing, Swing Together

  

• Abracadaver

  

• The Reaper

  

• The False Inspector Dew

  

• Waxwork

  

• A Case of Spirits

  

• Invitation to a Dynamite Party

  

• Mad Hatter’s Holiday

  

• The Detective Wore Silk Drawers

  

• Diamond Solitaire

  

• The Last Detective

  

• The Circle

  

• The Headhunters

  

• Wobble to Death

  

• Diamond Dust

  

• The Vault

  

• Upon a Dark Night

  

• Bloodhounds

  

• The Summons

  

• Cop to Corpse

  

• Stagestruck

  

• Skeleton Hill

  

• The Secret Hangman

  

• The House Sitter

  

• Beau Death

  

• Down Among the Dead Men

  

• Another One Goes Tonight

  

• The Stone Wife

  

• The Tooth Tattoo

  

• Diamond and the Eye

  

• The Finisher

  

• Killing with Confetti

  

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