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Title: Beau Death

Author: Peter Lovesey

Narrator: Peter Wickham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

A wrecking ball crashes through the roof of a terraced cottage in Bath and exposes a skeleton in 18th-century clothes. Can these possibly be the remains of Beau Nash, the so-called King of Bath, whose body is said to have ended up in a pauper's grave?

Peter Diamond, the city's most experienced detective, is ordered to investigate, but grappling with historical events causes ructions in his team until everyone is diverted by a modern killing during a fireworks display on the Royal Crescent lawn. But Beau Nash refuses to be ignored - and when astonishing new facts emerge about the case, Bath's history is rewritten and mysteries ancient and modern are fused in a devastating climax.

Members Reviews:

totally formulaic!

Would you try another book written by Peter Lovesey or narrated by Peter Wickham?

Read a lot in this series and this is by far the poorest

What was most disappointing about Peter Loveseys story?

Coincidences were unbelievable.

Was Beau Death worth the listening time?

No couldn't wait to finish it. running out of ideas an obviously a vehicle for telling us all about Beau Gest

2nd half better; female voices screechy

Ive read all the books in the Peter Diamond series and, while this isnt a real standout, its a decent read in spite of some flaws.

There are two mysteries to be solved in this book. First is to identify the old corpse found in the attic of a building being demolished. That mystery takes up about half the book, while the other half is the whodunnit plot.

I was irritated a few times with the identification plot. Diamonds team of detectives behave badly to each other, with John Leeman being so rude to his colleagues that Id have removed him from the team. There was never anything that advanced the plot or the characters development in this squabbling. It just felt like annoying padding. Unfortunately, Lovesey has never done much to develop Diamonds team as characters. Im willing to live with that for the sake of a good police procedural, but if he is going to have action with the secondary characters, please dont have it be pointless conflict among them.

The other irritation about the identification plot was how slow the detectives were on some key clues, in particular on how some evidence could be used to date the time of the murder. Yes, they got around to figuring that out, but one in particular of these things was something that anybody who has so much as watched the occasional TV crime drama would know instantly.

Once you get to the whodunnit plot, the book is much more enjoyable. The clues are dropped judiciously and the stories the investigation reveals are interesting. The descriptions of Diamonds involvement in the Beau Nash Society as part of the investigation are particularly vivid and lively.

All in all, a decent police procedural once you get to the whodunnit. If you decide to read it, I cant recommend the audiobook. The male reader uses a screechy falsetto for nearly all the female voices.

Very entertaining

a very enjoyable book. A book full of good humour and heart. Great story ,well told .Will look out for next book.