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A review by howjessicareads
The Stone Wife by Peter Lovesey
3.0
I was so excited to get an ARC of this since I usually adore Lovesey's books.
It started out with an interesting premise: an attempted robbery of a medieval stone carving (the Wife of Bath) goes awry, and a Chaucerian scholar is killed.
But it quickly devolved into the absurd when one of Superintendent Diamond's team goes undercover to try to figure out who supplied the gun to the murderer. I still liked the main Chaucer-related plot line, Diamond's eccentricities are always pure gold; but the secondary plot line was patently ridiculous and impossible and annoying.
It started out with an interesting premise: an attempted robbery of a medieval stone carving (the Wife of Bath) goes awry, and a Chaucerian scholar is killed.
But it quickly devolved into the absurd when one of Superintendent Diamond's team goes undercover to try to figure out who supplied the gun to the murderer. I still liked the main Chaucer-related plot line, Diamond's eccentricities are always pure gold; but the secondary plot line was patently ridiculous and impossible and annoying.