A Mysterious Review of The Stone Wife by Peter Lovesey. A Peter Diamond Mystery.
Review summary: With a plot replete with unexpected twists and turns, a cast of characters which are brilliantly drawn, and an interesting backstory to the murder investigation, this entertaining police procedural-style mystery is another example of why this series is so popular with readers. (Click here for text of full review.)
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The Stone Wife
Peter Lovesey
A Peter Diamond Mystery
Soho Crime (September 2014)
Publisher synopsis: At a Bath auction house, a large slab of carved stone is up for sale. At the height of what turns into very competitive bidding, there is a hold-up attempt by three masked robbers. They shoot and kill the highest bidder, a professor who has recognized the female figure carved in the stone as Chaucer's Wife of Bath. The masked would-be thieves flee, leaving the stone behind.
Peter Diamond and his team are assigned to investigate, and the stone is moved into Diamond's office so he can research its origins. The carving causes such difficulties that he starts to think it has jinxed him. Meanwhile, as Diamond's leads take him to Chaucer's house in Somerset, his intrepid colleague Ingeborg goes undercover to try to track down the source of the handgun used in the murder.
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