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The Stone Wife

Peter Diamond, Book 14

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The Stone Wife

By: Peter Lovesey
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
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At an auction house in Bath, England, a large slab of carved stone is up for sale. At the height of what turns into very competitive bidding, there is a holdup attempt by three masked raiders who are trying to steal the stone. They shoot and kill the highest bidder, a professor who has recognized the female figure carved in the stone as the Wife of Bath from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 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 fatal murder.

©2014 Peter Lovesey (P)2014 SoHo Publishing Detective Fiction Genre Fiction International Mystery & Crime Literary Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Crime
Engaging Plot • Complex Storytelling • Distinct Voices • Well-developed Characters • Gripping Mystery • Wonderful Job
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This is an old fashioned genre which Lovesey mines well but seems so unrealistic in modern times. Imagine a team of up to a dozen police and civilians who stop everything they’re doing when a suspicious death occurs. They work overtime and weekends and risk their lives to find the killer. Contrast with reality, in America at least: a Chicago citizen is gunned down in the prime of life in front of witnesses. So little effort is put forth that no murderer is identified 5 out of 6 times. And many complain that even this effort is overfunded. Also in Lovesey’s world, guns are apparently hard to come by and are even rented at high cost as a result of gun law enforcement. And people are threatened with prosecution for obstructing police if they don’t reveal what they know. If Peter Diamond had a time travel machine or a talking horse he wouldn’t be further from modern (American) reality.

Improbable procedural

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another gripping story of inspector Diamond and we'll narrated by Prebble. outstanding use of characters.

another gripping story and we'll narrated!

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A typical complex story that is a style that he writes with a variety of threads that weave themselves in and out of the story some that of course pan out and some that leave their own knotted end. because there's so many characters and there's so many storylines it makes for a very difficult performance for the audio performer to have the variety of voices that are necessary for one of his books but having said that the performer did a good job. overall a good read and a fun listen

another fun tale in the series

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Diamond seems to always get his man. A happy ending is promised and the ins and outs of solving the case, perhaps very unrealistic, are a pleasure!

Almost a cozy read

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Enjoy listening to a story that has a good story teller. The author is good at keeping me hanging on!

Loved it

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The amount of detail was excessive and it was difficult for me to keep interest in the story. Also I think the author “cheated” by not giving the reader all the clues Diamond had to solve the mystery.

Too long

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then you'll adore Chief Inspector Diamond. Peter Lovesey has
a wonderfully developed cast of characters whom are both as witty and quirky as any of the characters of the Three Pines series. His stories are engaging with great dialogue and engrossing mysteries that are, of course, solved by the great Chief Inspector himself...most of the time. As with the Three Pines series, when the book is over there is a sense of saying goodbye to all of your friends.

Simon Prebble is brilliant in all his narrations of this series and his performance even reminds me of the late Ralph Cosham.

It isn't very fair to Peter Lovesey or Simon Prebble that I have compared their professional creativity to other people. Their art stands on its own. Had I read Lovesey before I read Penny, then, assuredly, the comparison would be the other way around. Both series are charming, well-written, with fabulous character development and outstanding narration.








If you love Inspector Gamache

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I love the life and importance placed on some of the side players in this series.

Awesome

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I enjoyed this quite a bit. Prebble’s voices are distinct and he does a wonderful job catching the humor and ironies.

Huge fan of Diamond series

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this book is the exception. the author is very good and I have read probably all or most of his books and they all get at least four stars. This one is just plain crummy. I'm writing this review so that you do not not make the mistake of making this book your first book from this author. Try almost any of the others and you will be very happy. This one... Not so much.

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