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When two CID officers from Peter Diamond’s old Avon and Somerset department knock on his London flat after midnight, the former detective finds himself suddenly embroiled in an emergency that only he can solve. Four years earlier, Diamond had arrested a man named John Mountjoy, a woman-hating murderer who was convicted of violently killing a reporter and allegedly mutilating her body. Now Mountjoy has escaped from prison and holds a CID officer’s daughter hostage, insisting that Diamond prove he was wrongfully convicted. Mountjoy threatens the hostage unless Diamond can find evidence to overturn his conviction. With the clock ticking and old enemies in the precinct watching, Diamond must track down a cold trail and uncover the truth before it’s too late.
First publish date: 1995
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: P Lovesey
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