Peter Lovesey was born in Middlesex and studied at Hampton Grammar School and Reading University, where he met his wife Jax. He won a competition with his first crime fiction novel, Wobble to Death, and has never looked back, with his numerous books winning and being shortlisted for nearly all the prizes in the international crime writing world. He was Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and has been presented with Lifetime Achievement awards both in the UK and the US.
'Here are true Victorians, not pious frauds of legend. A first-rate story of sustained thrill' - John Dickson Carr 'First prize-winner, and a worthy one . . . excellently done' - Edmund Crispin 'Brilliantly evocative . . . It is long since I came across so original a setting' - Spectator 'Don't miss this. It will be on all the best lists' - Los Angeles Times