Hachette India

Dead Gorgeous

Peter Lovesey

Previously titled On the Edge this is Peter Lovesey's classic crime thriller set in the immediate post-war years.

Rose and Antonia had a good war. As WAAF plotters they had all the excitement and independence of a difficult and dangerous job and all the fun of being two women on an RAF base.

Peacetime is a disappointment. There is rationing shortages and nothing to do. Rosie's war-hero husband has turned into a brutal lout: Antonia bored with her rich manufacturer wants to move to America with her lover. Neither can afford a divorce. But what are plotters for if not to plot? And Antonia's ruthless scheme would give them both what they want.

If Rose doesn't lose her nerve they could get away with murder . . . .

Peter Lovesey

Peter Lovesey is the only living author in Britain to have received the two highest honours in crime writing - the Diamond Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. He started with the Sergeant Cribb series set in Victorian London and later progressed to modern times with the award-winning Peter Diamond books set in Bath, his home for almost twenty years. Now living in Shrewsbury with his wife Jax, whom he met at Reading University, he continues to reach and entertain new readers across the world.

Discover more books

View Details

Dead Gorgeous

Peter Lovesey

Peter Lovesey

Discover more books

Against the Grain

Showstopper

Diamond and the Eye

Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

The Finisher

Swing, Swing Together

Waxwork

Invitation to a Dynamite Party

A Case of Spirits

Mad Hatter's Holiday

Killing with Confetti

Beau Death

Wobble to Death

The Detective Wore Silk Drawers

Abracadaver

Another One Goes Tonight

Down Among the Dead Men

The Stone Wife

The Secret Hangman

The House Sitter

Diamond Dust

The Vault

Upon A Dark Night

The Tooth Tattoo

Bloodhounds

The Summons

Diamond Solitaire

The Last Detective

Cop To Corpse

Stagestruck

Skeleton Hill

The Secret Hangman

The Circle

The House Sitter