Peter Lovesey

Sub-genre: Amateur detective, detective, female detective, historical crime fiction, mystery, Police procedural, Private Investigator, Somerset, suspense

Peter Lovesey has published 41 novels and five collections of short stories since he joined the CWA in 1969. His work has been adapted for radio, TV and film and is translated into over 20 languages. His first novel, Wobble to Death, won the Macmillan/Panther first crime novel prize of £1000 and featured Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian policeman, the first of an eight-book series that was televised by Granada in 1979-80, starring Alan Dobie as Cribb.

He has written three other series, one featuring Bertie, the Prince of Wales, as an inept amateur sleuth, and two with modern police: Hen Mallin, a female Chief Inspector, and Peter Diamond, a detective superintendent with Bath CID. The long-running Diamond series has won two Silver Daggers and a number of American awards, including the Anthony, the Barry and the Macavity.

Peter won the Silver Dagger for Waxwork in 1978 and the Gold Dagger for The False Inspector Dew in 1982 and in 2000 he was honoured by the CWA with the Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 2018 the Mystery Writers of America made him a Grand Master. He is also a Grand Master of the Swedish Academy of Detection and a winner of the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He was Chair of the CWA in 1991-2. His son Phil is also a crime writer and both father and son have won the CWA short story dagger.

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Daggers

Short story - 2007
Diamond - 2000
Silver - 1996
Silver - 1995
Gold - 1982
Silver - 1978

Other Awards

Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement, 2019; Magna Cum Murder International Guest of Honor, 2018; Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, 2018; The Strand Critics Lifetime Achievement, 2014; Swedish Academy of Detection Grand Master, 2010; Macavity Award, 2003 & 1996; Bouchercon International Guest of Honor, 2001; Malice Domestic Guest of Honor, 1996; Mystery Masters Guest of Honor, 1996; Barry Award, 1996; Mystery Writers of America Golden Mysteries Prize, 1995; Ellery Queen Readers Award, 1991; Anthony Award, 1991; Veuve Clicquot Award, 1991; Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, 1976; Prix du Roman d’Aventures, 1975; Macmillan/Panther First Crime Novel Prize, 1970.

Books by Peter Lovesey

• Diamond and the Eye

  

• The Finisher

  

• Killing with Confetti

  

• Beau Death

  

• Down Among the Dead Men

  

• Another One Goes Tonight

  

• The Stone Wife

  

• The Tooth Tattoo

  

• Cop to Corpse

  

• Stagestruck

  

• Skeleton Hill

  

• The Secret Hangman

  

• The House Sitter

  

• Diamond Dust

  

• The Vault

  

• Upon a Dark Night

  

• Bloodhounds

  

• The Summons

  

• Diamond Solitaire

  

• The Last Detective

  

• The Circle

  

• The Headhunters

  

• Wobble to Death

  

• Waxwork

  

• A Case of Spirits

  

• Invitation to a Dynamite Party

  

• Mad Hatter's Holiday

  

• The Detective Wore Silk Drawers

  

• Swing, Swing Together

  

• Abracadaver

  

• The Reaper

  

• The False Inspector Dew