Author: Peter Lovesey Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery
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ISBNs: 9781616953935 9781616955663 1616953934 161695566X |
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Book 14 in the Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond series, one of Soho's bestselling and most critically acclaimed series, this time including a Chauceresque twist.
At a Bath auction house, a large slab of carved stone is up for sale. At the height of very competitive bidding, there is a holdup attempt by three masked robbers. They shoot and kill the highest bidder, a professor who has recognized the female figure carved in the stone as Chaucer's Wife of Bath. 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 murder.
This book is part of the "Peter Diamond" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Tooth Tattoo" First published in 2013 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Cop to Corpse" First published in 2012 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Stagestruck" First published in 2011 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Skeleton Hill" First published in 2009 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Secret Hangman" First published in 2007 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The House Sitter" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Diamond Dust" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Vault" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Upon A Dark Night" First published in 1997 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Bloodhounds" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Summons" First published in 1995 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Diamond Solitaire" First published in 1992 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Last Detective" First published in 1991 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Beau Death" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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