Description

A naked female corpse hasbeen discovered hanging in a sizable tank only south of Bristol.  To be able to resolve the mystery of the "Lady in the Lake,"  Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond should find two missing characters related to Jane Austen and escape his superiors about the pressure to truly save a person unjustly accused of murder.  This is actually the to begin the Peter Diamond series; it gained the 1992 Anthony Boucher Award for Best Mystery Novel.