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The Stone Wife: Detective Peter Diamond Book 14
Peter Lovesey
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Description for The Stone Wife: Detective Peter Diamond Book 14
Paperback. The new Peter Diamond case has the eminent detective in pursuit of a murderer after a theft at an auction house goes wrong Series: Peter Diamond Mystery. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 284.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Peter Diamond Mystery
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780751554076
SKU
V9780751554076
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Ref
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About Peter Lovesey
Peter Lovesey was born in Middlesex and studied at Hampton Grammar School and Reading University, where he met his wife Jax. He won a competition with his first crime fiction novel, Wobble to Death, and has never looked back, with his numerous books winning and being shortlisted for nearly all the prizes in the international crime writing world. He ... Read more
Reviews for The Stone Wife: Detective Peter Diamond Book 14
With more violence than we normally associate with Lovesey, this is well up to his high standard of story telling. It will hold you to the deckchair even if the sun is not shining Daily Mail In his lengthy career, veteran novelist Peter Lovesey has supplied the most diverting (and elegantly written) crime fiction, very much the case in this ... Read more