The Circle by Peter Lovesey

The Circle by Peter Lovesey

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Summary

A writer's circle in Chichester is delighted when a publisher agrees to address one of their meetings, but when that same publisher turns up dead they find themseles and their unpublished ambitions under close police scrutiny.

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The Circle by Peter Lovesey

Encouraged by his fourteen-year-old-daughter who recognises his lonely widowhood, Bob Naylor decides to join a writers' circle, believing he might gain some expert help with the poetry which keeps spilling out of his imagination. He discovers a motley collection of wannabe authors who he doubts he has anything in common with, but just as he is deciding not to formally join the group he learns that a publisher who addressed their last meeting has been killed and he stays to see what might develop. The Senior Investigating Officer, Henrietta Mallin, soon has all the members of the group under suspicion and under pressure from her superiors arrests their Chairman. Bob, the only writer who had not met the dead man, is persuaded by some other members of the group to do some investigating of his own. And that is when the trouble really starts, because another death turns the spotlight of suspicion on to him.
'Lovesey's writing is lucid and succinct, and he is a consumate story-teller' Colin Dexter 'Pure joy.' The Scotsman 'Phone-off-the-hook time.' The Independent
Peter Lovesey's first novel WOBBLE TO DEATH introduced the redoubtable Victorian policemen, Cribb and Thackeray. He won the Gold Dagger Award with THE FALSE INSPECTOR DEW and in 2000 joined the elite group of people awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award.
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ISBN 13 9780316729451
ISBN 10 0316729450
Title The Circle
Author Peter Lovesey
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Little, Brown & Company
Year published 2005-02-03
Number of pages 368
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.