The Headhunters

by Peter Lovesey Narrated by Susan Lyons

Overview

Recipient of the British Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger, Gold Dagger, and Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement, Peter Lovesey has also won Anthony and Macavity Awards for his splendid mysteries. In The Headhunters, an innocent discussion about killing the boss leads friends Gemma and Jo into real-life murder. "Lovesey is a master."-Washington Post Book World

Editorial Reviews

Kirkus Reviews

Master craftsman Lovesey (The Secret Hangman, 2007, etc.) flaunts his deviousness with a plethora of wickedly plausible suspects. Gemma loathes her boss at the printing firm. Mr. Cartwright is so nice he's icky. Besides, she tells her pals Rick, Jake and Jo, a new employee, Fiona, has caught his attention and may use her feminine wiles to replace Gemma. So Rick, Jake, Jo and Gemma jokingly come up with ways to kill the loathed Mr. Cartwright. When he and Fiona go missing, the mock-conspirators come in for fierce police interrogations. Then Jo stumbles on a drowned woman in Selsey, near the site where a prehistoric mammoth was found 20 years ago. Worse, she finds another drowned woman in the mill pond opposite Fiona's house and yet another under the tarp covering Cartwright's swimming pool. Who are these women, and why have they been killed? Because he has a record, Jake comes under police suspicion first; then Rick, who has a bit of a temper; then the first victim's husband, a philandering professor on that mammoth dig. Jo, doing a touch of sleuthing herself, almost becomes the killer's final drowning victim before the coppers, abetted by a sweet little old lady in a pink hat, save the day. Lovesey makes it virtually impossible to figure out whodunit before he reveals all. Catnip for enthusiasts of the classic puzzler.

From the Publisher

Peter Lovesey excels in portraying ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events, and The Headhunters is a splendid example... This is a very cleverly constructed mystery with well-rounded characters, and it confirms Lovesey's place in the top echelon of British crime writers—Sunday Telegraph

Peter Lovesey has written 30 crime novels, many of them adapted for television or film; he has won loads of awards and been translated into more than 20 languages; he's hugely respected by his fellow writers, yet hasn't quite captured the public acclaim—The Times

A sharp little vignette of contemporary England—Literary Review

What will especially please those who treasure puzzle mysteries is the ingenuity of the plot. Lovesey has figured out how to update the traditional mystery while retaining the features that made it so entertaining. The characters are thoroughly 21st cent—‘Peter Lovesey is one of the UK’s most consummate authors and you know that whenever you pick up a b

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170674817
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	10/10/2008
Edition description:	Unabridged

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