The Finisher
by Lovesey, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New in As New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1641291818
- ISBN 13
- 9781641291811
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Soho Crime. As New in As New dust jacket. 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red boards and spine with title and author imprinted in gold. Map of the City of Bath on endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 353 pages. A Peter Diamond Investigation, No. 19. On the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first novel, Peter Lovesey, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and titan of the British detective novel, returns to the subject of his very first mystery -- running.Through a particularly tragic series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly, an elementary school teacher whose mother always assured her "curvy" girls shouldn't waste their time trying to be fit, has been forced to sign up for the Other Half, Bath's springtime half-marathon. The training is brutal, but she must disprove her mother and collect pledges for her aunt's beloved charity. What Maeve doesn't know is just how brutal some of the other runners are.As race day draws closer, an undocumented Albanian man named Spiro makes a run for freedom on the other side of town, escaping the chain gang that has held him hostage and its murderous foreman, who is known to his charges as The Finisher. The Finisher has killed for disobedience before, and Spiro knows there's a target on his back as he tries to lose himself in the genteel medieval city of Bath.Meanwhile Detective Peter Diamond is tasked with crowd control on the raucous day of the race -- and catches sight of a violent criminal he put away a decade ago, and who very much seems to be up to his old tricks now that he is paroled. Diamond's hackles are already up when he learns that one of the runners never crossed the finish line -- disappeared without a trace. Was Diamond a spectator to the prelude to a murder? .
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- Bookseller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 609365
- Title
- The Finisher
- Author
- Lovesey, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1641291818
- ISBN 13
- 9781641291811
- Publisher
- Soho Crime
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2020
- Keywords
- FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, POLICE PROCEDURAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Mystery/Detective / Police Procedural;
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