A review by kiramke
The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey

2.0

Troubling narrative.  We're meant to believe, because we're told outright, that Diamond is the last of an old breed who use their intelligence, hard work, and superior deductive reasoning instead of those lazy newfangled computers.  And then we hear immediately of the only other relevant case in his history, wherein he helped convict the wrong man, an obvious fall guy.   He's accused of helping to send an innocent black man to prison, and it's shrugged off as 'of course not.'  Now, some of this resolves, it's not the main story, and there are some enjoyable bits, but this underlying sense of believing the 'good cop' regardless of how he treats people and what he does wrong, just really festers.