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- Sphere
- Little, Brown Audio
- Sphere
Peter Diamond Mystery, Fiction, Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Apr 14, 2015 | 9780751554076 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Apr 3, 2014 | 9781405531535 | RRP $31.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 3, 2014 | 9780751554069 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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The new Peter Diamond case has the eminent detective in pursuit of a murderer after a theft at an auction house goes wrong
The fourteenth Peter Diamond case has the eminent detective in pursuit of a murderer after a theft at an auction house goes wrong.
Just as the bidding gets exciting in a Bath auction house, three armed men stage a hold-up and attempt to steal Lot 129, a medieval carving of the Wife of Bath. The highest bidder, appalled to have the prize snatched away, tries to stop them and is shot dead.
Peter Diamond, head of the murder squad, soon finds himself sharing an office with the stone wife - until he is ejected. To his extreme annoyance the lump of stone appears to exert a malign influence over him and his investigation. Refusing to be beaten, he rallies his team and begins finding suspects and motives.
The case demands that someone goes undercover. The dangerous mission falls to Sergeant Ingeborg Smith, reverting to her journalist persona to get the confidence of a wealthy local criminal through his pop star girlfriend. And soon, murder makes a reappearance . . .
Praise for The Stone Wife: Detective Peter Diamond Book 14
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A new Peter Diamond mystery is a cause for rejoicing - Mystery Scene
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Peter Diamond may be my favourite fictional police detective - perky, dogged and very clever - Scotsman
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Peter Lovesey has an extraordinary talent for picking up the conventions of the classic English detective novel and delivering them with an entirely contemporary twist - Val McDermid
Peter Lovesey
Peter Lovesey is the only living author in Britain to have received the two highest honours in crime writing - the Diamond Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. He started with the Sergeant Cribb series set in Victorian London and later progressed to modern times with the award-winning Peter Diamond books set in Bath, his home for almost twenty years.
Now living in Shrewsbury with his wife Jax, whom he met at Reading University, he continues to reach and entertain new readers across the world.
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