Diamond Dust

Detective Peter Diamond of the Bath constabulary faces the most devastating crime of his career when his wife Stephanie is found murdered, an apparent victim in a series of killings targeting police spouses. Over his superintendent's explicit orders, Diamond refuses to stand down from the investigation, insisting that only he can find his wife's killer. What he uncovers is a case of startling ingenuity, and a personal and professional reckoning with the nature of grief and obsession. Peter Lovesey's seventh Diamond novel won praise for taking its hero to emotional depths the series had not previously explored.

Steve Hodson narrates Diamond Dust with the measured gravity the material's emotional stakes demand, capturing Peter's barely contained devastation alongside his dogged professional competence. The Bath setting that grounds the series is rendered with Hodson's characteristic precision, and the mystery's solution, which the New York Times praised for its infernal ingenuity, lands with appropriate force. At just over eleven hours, Diamond Dust is one of the series' most memorable entries.