Another One Goes Tonight

Name: Another One Goes Tonight
Rating: 4.06 (2524 reviews)
Author: Peter Lovesey

Peter Diamond • Book 16

by Peter Lovesey

Narrated by Simon Prebble

4.06 ABR Score (2.5K ratings)

★ 4.06 Goodreads (2.1K) ★ 4.54 Audible (468)

11h 16m Released 2016 Mystery

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Sixteen books in, Lovesey still surprises — this time a motorized tricycle is the thread that unravels police loyalty, a cover-up, and Diamond's own conscience.

Great if you want: a morally complex procedural with dry British wit
Listening experience: measured and cerebral — tension builds through institutional friction, not action
Narration: Prebble's deadpan delivery perfectly suits Diamond's weary sarcasm
Skip if: you need urgency — this rewards patience over adrenaline

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Another One Goes Tonight begins with Peter Diamond responding to a traffic accident that killed one officer and critically injured another, only to discover that the civilian involved is someone Diamond begins to suspect is a serial killer who has been operating beneath the detection threshold for years. The moral question at the center of the novel, whether Diamond's CPR may have saved a killer's life, gives Lovesey one of his most interesting ethical puzzles.

Simon Prebble's Peter Diamond is a reliable pleasure across the series, his voice finding the Bath detective's gruff intelligence without oversimplifying the character's complexity. The novel's ethical dimension, which implicates Diamond in the outcome regardless of what he does next, is handled by Prebble with the nuanced discomfort it deserves.