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The Circle/Do Not Exceed The Stated Dose

The Circle/Do Not Exceed The Stated Dose

by PeterLovesey (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

    $3.25
Synopsis

The Circle When Bob Naylor plucks up courage to join his local writers' circle, he is nervous. But while he is prepared for some naked ambition, he doesn't know it will include murder...The death of publisher Edgar Blacker propels Bob and his fellow authors straight into the middle of a detective story. They are excited by the prospect, but Detective Henrietta Mallin is determined not to let these amateur sleuths muddy the waters as she prepares to unravel the sinister secret of the circle. Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose Beware of long-lost friends, sleepy cats, and Santa's grotto. Think twice about gypsy curses, squawking parrots, and peach-coloured thermal underwear, for any one of them can confound your expectations and shatter a cosy world. Peter Lovesey prescribes fifteen fiendishly clever stories featuring the man in the street, along with the ever-popular detectives Peter Diamond and self-important Bertie, Prince of Wales.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 624
 Edition: paperback / softback
 Publisher: Sphere
Published: 26 Mar 2009
ISBN 10: 0751541567
ISBN 13: 9780751541564

Media Reviews
'Peter Lovesey has a good eye for small worlds devastated by killings: The Circle takes us into the closed yet instantly recognizable world of writers' circles in small towns. A dodgy vanity publisher gets burned alive in his cottage, and the obvious suspect is a writer he had tricked with false promises; other members of the writers' group try to prove his innocence while the police investigate further killings. Lovesey is very good here on the radically different sorts of leg-work carried out by amateurs and the police, to the disadvantage of neither. For a traditional who-dun-it, this is surprisingly perceptive about the investigative process and the different sorts of clues people miss. He also does an intelligent job of exposition by having his main viewpoint character be a widowed parcel courier with a taste for light verse who is far from sure he wants to be hanging around with all these intellectuals anyway. This is a chastened darkish book, but has a light touch that keeps it attractive.' - Roz Kaveney, AMAZON.CO.UK
Author Bio
Peter Lovesey's novels and short stories have won him awards all over the world, including the Gold, Silver and Cartier Diamond Daggers of the Crime Writers' Association, of which he was Chairman in 1991-2. He has just won the Short Story Dagger for 2007.