SueK Posted May 19, 2011 Posted May 19, 2011 Peter Lovesey came to talk to us at Tonbridge Library last night. He is a very prolific crime writer and has won various awards including the Crime Dagger award. He has written a Victorian Detective series which was on TV back in the 70s featuring Sergeant Cribb (I never saw them) and more recently a series around Detective Supt Peter Diamond of the Avon and Somerset Police - and I think the 11th has just been published. I thought I would read one of his books before going to the talk so I downloaded Skeleton Hill. This is an excellent crime story and I thought Peter Diamond was one of the most well written detective characters of recent times. Mr Lovesey is a very interesting man and he read snippets of his latest work Stagestruck which I shall get in due course. He was asked on his views of e-books. He said that although e-books was the way of the future, he still preferred holding a real book in his hands and (like a lot of us) liked the smell and feel of a real book. Some people in the audience had no idea what an e-book was, sooooo, yours truly got hers out and before you could say "murder" my kindle was being fondled by all and sundry with lots of questions asked. Here is a link to Peter Lovesey's webpage if anyone is interested in reading his books. I, for one, will be getting a few more of them. http://peterlovesey.com/about Quote
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