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The Stone Wife
Peter Lovesey
Works of: Fiction
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 wealth local criminal through his popstar girlfriend. And soon, murder makes a reappearance.
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Other books by Peter Lovesey


Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

Diamond and the Eye

The Finisher

Killing with Confetti

Beau Death

Another One Goes Tonight

Down Among the Dead Men

The Tooth Tattoo

Cop to Corpse

Stagestruck

Skeleton Hill

Murder on the Short List

The Headhunters

The Secret Hangman

The Circle

The House Sitter

Diamond Dust

Dead Gorgeous

In Suspense

The Sedgemoor Strangler & Other Stories of Crime

The Secret of Spandau

The Reaper

The Vault

Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

Upon a Dark Night

Bloodhounds

The Summons

The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown & Other Stories

Bertie and the Crime of Passion

Diamond Solitaire

The Last Detective

Bertie and the Seven Bodies

Bertie and the Tinman

Rough Cider

Butchers & Other Stories of Crime

Keystone

The False Inspector Dew

Waxwork

Swing, Swing Together

A Case of Spirits

Invitation to a Dynamite Party

Mad Hatter’s Holiday

Abracadaver

The Detective Wore Silk Drawers

Wobble to Death

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