Peter Lovesey

Cop to Corpse: a Peter Diamond Investigation (Inspector Peter Diamond Investigations) Peter Lovesey Unabridged edition

In the small hours of a Sunday morning in the city of Bath a policeman on beat duty is shot dead by an unseen gunman the third killing of an officer in Somerset in a matter of weeks. The emergency services are summoned. Ambitious to arrest the Somerset Sniper, the duty inspector, Ken Lockton, seals the crime scene, which is confined by the river on one side and a massive retaining wall on the other. He discovers the murder weapon in a garden and is himself attacked and left for dead