Beau Death Av Peter Lovesey

<p><b>Peter Diamond investigates a mystery of the past in the seventeenth case for the brilliant Bath detective.</b><br><br>A wrecking ball crashes through the roof of a terraced cottage in Bath and exposes a skeleton in eighteenth-century clothes. Can these possibly be the remains of Beau Nash, the so-called King of Bath, whose body is said to have ended up in a pauper''s grave?<br><br>Peter Diamond, the city''s most experienced detective, is ordered to investigate, but grappling with historical events causes ructions in his team until everyone is diverted by a modern killing during a fireworks display on the Royal Crescent lawn.<br><br>But Beau Nash refuses to be ignored - and when astonishing new facts emerge about the case, Bath''s history is rewritten and mysteries ancient and modern are fused in a devastating climax.</p>