Down Among the Dead Men

By: Peter Lovesey

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

In a Sussex town on the south coast of England, a widely disliked art teacher at a posh private girls' school disappears without explanation. None of her students miss her boring lessons, especially since her replacement is a devilishly hunky male teacher with a fancy car. But then her name shows up on a police missing-persons list. What happened to Miss Gibbon, and why does no one seem to care?

Meanwhile, detective Peter Diamond finds himself in Sussex, much against his wishes. His irritating and often obtuse supervisor, Assistant Chief Constable Georgina Dallymore, has made Diamond accompany her on a home-office internal investigation. A Sussex detective has been suspended for failing to link the DNA evidence of a relative to a seven-year-old murder case - a bad breach of ethics. Diamond is less than thrilled to be heading out on a road trip with his boss to investigate a fellow officer, but he becomes much more interested in the case when he realizes who the suspended officer is - an old friend and not a person he knows to make mistakes.

As Diamond asks questions, he begins to notice unsettling connections between the cold case and the missing art teacher. Could the two mysteries be connected? How many other area disappearances have gone unnoticed and uninvestigated? Diamond and his hapless supervisor have stumbled into a web of related crimes. Will Diamond be able to disentangle them?

©2015 Peter Lovesey (P)2015 Recorded Books

Critic reviews

"...the real fun is in Prebble's subtlety as a performer. He's a master of accents; with the slightest inflection he gives you class, age, sex, education, ethnicity, and personality, a Rembrandt of vocal portraiture." (AudioFile)

some surprises

Brits, tecs rushing all over, tensions, odd ducks, even a cat combine for fine listening. Surprising plot twists for experienced Anglo Detective novels.

5

One of the author's best. A good intro to rural police based in England- of course I only know about such mysteries through my single
minded reading of this genre. This is
very good for beginners or seasoned
detective bpoks.

Still amazing intrigue and fascinating characters

I think these books can’t get any better and then I read the next and this is the best but ….. already downloaded the next and starting another exciting read now

Awww. so sad

Wasnt expecting this person to be the culprit. what a bummer. oh well. fun mystery.

Very entertaining! Superb narration!

I recently discovered Peter Lovesey. This is my second Inspector Diamond book. I really enjoyed the characters and the story. I was appreciative that there wasn't any gratuitous sex or foul language.

great listen

Simon prebble is a great narrator, and the Peter diamond mysteries is a wonderful series. I enjoy it very much

Hilarious!

The writing is noteworthy in its ability to make me unexpectedly laugh out loud in grocery aisles…and embarrass myself. Deadpan, tongue-in-cheek British humor is the cat’s meow.

Enjoyable detective yarn

I enjoy Simon Prebble as a narrator. There is one problem. He just really does not do the voices of young women very well. The story is good and for the most part I like the narration of Simon Prebble a lot. 

A fun listen with good characters

This is my first inspector diamond novel. I enjoyed it immensely and will probably listen to other books by the author involving this character. The whodunit was well plotted and not obvious until towards the end.

another good story and return of a good character

a good story with return of a likeable character, you could read or listen to the standalone but having some exposure to some of the other novels would be worthwhile. shows an amusing conflict between a supervisor and his boss...and the compassion of a main character is to be sensitive to the needs of his boss. the width and breadth of all the misdeeds made it interesting with lots of diversion plots coming together in the end as is typical. once again the performance is difficult because there's so many characters to differentiate and the storyteller did a good job with a difficult task