by Peter Lovesey · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725681831
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«Cidra amarga» is the mystery novel by Peter Lovesey, published by Editora Ulisseia in paperback (187 pages, in Portuguese).
In 1964, Professor Theo Sinclair receives a visit from Alice, a young American woman looking for her father, Duke Donovan, a soldier stationed in Somerset during World War II. Donovan was hanged in 1945 after disturbing events, and Alice's determination leads Theo to a past that returns with more deaths.
The work was originally published as «Rough Cider» in 1986; this Portuguese edition was translated by Rui F. Carvalho. The novel was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1988.
It is aimed at readers of crime and historical fiction with a World War II backdrop.
Peter Harmer Lovesey, also known by his pen name Peter Lear, was a British writer of historical and contemporary detective novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath. He was also one of the world's leading track and field statisticians.
