(1936-09-10) 10 September 1936 (age 87) Whitton, Middlesex
Pen name
Peter Lear
Occupation
Novelist
Nationality
British
Genre
Detective fiction, Historical mystery
Notable works
Sergeant Cribb series Peter Diamond series
Notable awards
CWA Diamond Dagger
CWA Gold Dagger
CWA Silver Dagger
Website
peterlovesey.com
Peter Harmer Lovesey (born 10 September 1936), also known by his pen name Peter Lear, is a British writer of historical and contemporary detective novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath.
Peter Harmer Lovesey (born 10 September 1936), also known by his pen name Peter Lear, is a British writer of historical and contemporary detective novels...
Dagger awards: Colin Dexter James H. McClure Sara Paretsky Anthony Price PeterLovesey Ruth Rendell Ngaio Marsh was the first writer to receive more than one...
Beukes Wins the Strand Critics Award for Best Novel, R.L. Stine and PeterLovesey Honored". Street Insider. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014...
Anglican in 1986, and was confirmed in 2006. Suchet and his brothers, John and Peter, attended Grenham House boarding school in Birchington-on-Sea, Kent. Then...
episodes were produced, which ran from 1980 to 1981. Adapted from PeterLovesey's Sergeant Cribb historical mystery novels and set in Victorian London...
Writer-in-Residence" (2014) "The Starlings" (2015) "Dreaming of Rain and PeterLovesey" (2016) "The Queen of Mystery" (2017) "The Return" (2017) "Moses and...
Through Corymore Productions, a company that she co-owned with her husband Peter Shaw, Lansbury assumed ownership of the series and was its executive producer...
save her home. Her performance in the film received favourable reviews; Peter Travers wrote for Rolling Stone: "It's Blethyn's solid-gold charm [that]...
working in this style include Sarah Caudwell, Ruth Dudley Edwards, PeterLovesey and Simon Brett. Television series that emulate the style include Murder...
Peter Lear may refer to: Sir Peter Lear, 1st Baronet, of the Lear baronets Peter Lear, pen name of PeterLovesey Lear (surname) This disambiguation page...
Levine (1948–) Paul Levinson (1947–) Jeff Lindsay Laura Lippman (1959–) PeterLovesey (1936–) Lisa Lutz (1970–) Dennis Lynds (1924–2005) Ed Lynskey (1956–)...
Lizzie in Laos as a minor field agent, is brought back into the Circus. Peter Guillam, Smiley's right-hand man, is suspicious of Collins, especially when...
mass trade paperback edition of Goldengirl, written by PeterLovesey (using the pen name Peter Lear). She had appeared as the title character in the film...
the West. In 1996, Kozak appeared in the mini-series Titanic along with Peter Gallagher and Catherine Zeta Jones. She played the role of Bess Allison...
Inspector Gamache's friend Clara enlists him to find her missing husband, Peter. The Nature of the Beast (2015) – Quebec ballistics scientist and international...
short stories in honor of H. R. F. Keating's 80th birthday, edited by PeterLovesey, published by Crippen & Landru and Allison & Busby) The Sinking Admiral...
on the 1977 science fiction novel of the same title by Peter Lear, a pseudonym of PeterLovesey. The screenplay was by John Kohn, with music by Bill Conti...
the basis for 1982's The False Inspector Dew, a detective novel by PeterLovesey. The 1989 BBC series Shadow of the Noose, about the life of barrister...
Bride of Newgate, set at the close of the Napoleonic Wars. In 1970, PeterLovesey began a series of novels featuring Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police...
(1980) Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith (1981) The False Inspector Dew by PeterLovesey (1982) Accidental Crimes by John Hutton (1983) The Twelfth Juror by...
1947) Beverly Lewis Laura Lippman (born 1959) S. E. Lister (born 1988) PeterLovesey (born 1936) Dennis Lynds (1924–2005) John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) Marianne...
2017: Max Allan Collins, Ellen Hart 2018: Jane Langton, William Link, PeterLovesey 2019: Martin Cruz Smith 2020: Barbara Neely 2021: Jeffery Deaver 2021:...
(2004) H.R.F. Keating (2005) Robert Barnard (2006) Carolyn Hart (2007) PeterLovesey (2008) Anne Perry (2009) Mary Higgins Clark (2010) Sue Grafton (2011)...
to Death is a 1970 historical detective novel by the British writer PeterLovesey. It was the first of a series of eight novels featuring the Victorian...