The Reaper
by:
Peter Lovesey (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781569478103 (1569478104)
Publish date: July 1st 2003
Publisher: Soho Crime
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
if only murder was always so tidy, elegant, and dryly amusing... i'd commit it all the time! this is a murder mystery written in the classic English style - but with a very modern narative twist and several very surprising turns. The Reaper features two amusing audience-identification points: a char...
In addition to his Inspector Peter Diamond series, Lovesey writes other equally literate crime novels. This one reminds me of those written by James Cain in the fifties. Its truly despicable villain is the Reverend Otis Joy, Rector of St. Bartholomew’s in Wiltshire. Joy likes to have a good time, ...