# Diamond Solitaire

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- Book: [Diamond Solitaire](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-lovesey/diamond-solitaire) ([Diamond Solitaire.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-lovesey/diamond-solitaire.md))
- Authors: [Peter Lovesey](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-lovesey)
- Publisher: Sphere
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0551-990-8
- Published: 2012-07-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Peter Diamond, ex-CID and notoriously difficult to work with, is sacked from his latest job as a security guard in Harrods. Doggedly he turns his sleuthing skills to unravelling the mystery of a little Japanese girl abandoned in London. Naomi, as she is known, exhibits the classic symptoms of an autistic child. Diamond regards her first as a challenge and soon as someone he cares passionately about, and devotes himself to communicating with the child. He is close to a breakthrough when Naomi is abducted to New York. By interpreting clues from drawings left by Naomi, Diamond goes in pursuit and is plunged into a maelstrom of murder and the mafia, suicide and drugs.