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by Peter Lovesey (Author), Michael Tudor Barnes (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 12 hours and 12 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
  • Audible.co.uk Release Date: 3 April 2014
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00IRSU1XI
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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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...

©2014 Peter Lovesey; (P)2014 Soundings

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5.0 out of 5 stars Diamond has still got it for me. 9 April 2014
Format:Kindle Edition
I really enjoyed this latest offering but I listened to it rather than read it and it kept me tuned in. I found it tense and exciting in parts but also leisurely in other stretches. I don't mind this as I don't like graphic gore, violence and cruelty at my age preferring a gentler puzzle . No book is perfect but I like the characters Lovesey has introduced to us in previous books and I'm a firm fan. I found myself waiting for Georgina the Assistant Chief Constable to appear and thought she would have had a bigger input as events unfolded. Personally, I wasn't disappointed with this latest book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Bit of a Letdown... 7 April 2014
Format:Hardcover
Peter Lovesey is one of Britain's great crime writers. His prose style is fluid and lucid, and his plots are usually well thought out. Unfortunately, I think that with The Stone Wife he's beginning to run out of steam, at least with Peter Diamond, the bluff bath detective.

A professor is murdered at an auction, during a failed attempt to steal a piece of masonry allegedly from Chaucer's house. The professor had been bidding high, obsessed as he was with acquiring the piece. his funding came from a rich wife, whose previous husband had been cuckolded by the professor, and had vowed revenge.

Diamond and his team investigate: a jealous colleague, the widow and the ex-husband all come under scrutiny as Sergeant Ingeborg Smith goes undercover in Bristol, attempting to infiltrate the lair of the arms dealer who might have supplied the murder weapon.

So far, so good, but the problem with this novel is the execution, and one can only assume that Lovesey is bored with Diamond. What is he, after all, apart from a bluff, opinionated ageing copper? Killing off his wife and giving him a lady friend hasn't made him interesting. He's not even a particularly good cop- he just thrashes around until something obvious happens. He's not only a bore, but he's boorish as well. Lovesey did write two novels about a former female sidekick of his, which were perfectly okay but she was abandoned after that. Perhaps this is a "pilot" for some novels about Ingeborg Smith, although frankly the sequence involving her and the arms dealer don't half go on, and amount to very little (as does much else in the novel).
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