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The Summons
Peter Lovesey
Works of: Fiction
The third novel in the Peter Diamond series finds Diamond and his wife Steph living in West London where he works in a supermarket collecting trolleys. He believes his days as a policeman are long gone. Unknown to him, a murderer he once arrested escapes from Albany Prison and kidnaps the daughter of the Assistant Chief Constable of Bath. No one except Diamond is capable of handling the emergency so he gets the summons to return to his old job. The Summons won the CWA Silver Dagger and was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar award for best novel.
CWA Awards
- CWA Silver Dagger – Winner
Sub-genres
Other books by Peter Lovesey


The Secret of Spandau

Murder on the Short List

The Sedgemoor Strangler & Other Stories of Crime

Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown & Other Stories

Butchers & Other Stories of Crime

Keystone

Bertie and the Crime of Passion

Bertie and the Seven Bodies

Bertie and the Tinman

Dead Gorgeous

Rough Cider

Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

The Reaper

The False Inspector Dew

The Detective Wore Silk Drawers

Swing, Swing Together

Abracadaver

A Case of Spirits

Invitation to a Dynamite Party

Mad Hatter’s Holiday

The Headhunters

Wobble to Death

Waxwork

Diamond Solitaire

The Last Detective

The Circle

Upon a Dark Night

Bloodhounds

The House Sitter

Diamond Dust

The Vault

Stagestruck

Skeleton Hill

The Secret Hangman

The Stone Wife

The Tooth Tattoo

Cop to Corpse

Beau Death

Down Among the Dead Men

Another One Goes Tonight

Diamond and the Eye

The Finisher

Killing with Confetti

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