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The Tooth Tattoo
- Detective Peter Diamond Book 13
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Summary
Peter Diamond, head of Bath CID, takes a city break in Vienna, where his favourite film, The Third Man, was set, but everything goes wrong and his companion, Paloma, calls a halt to their relationship.
Meanwhile, strange things are happening to jobbing musician Mel Farran, who finds himself scouted by methods closer to the spy world than the concert platform. The chance of joining a once-famous string quartet in a residency at Bath Spa University is too tempting for Mel to refuse. Then a body is found in the city canal, and the only clue to the dead woman's identity is the tattoo of a music note on one of her teeth. For Diamond, who wouldn't know a Stradivarius from a French horn, the investigation is his most demanding ever. Three mysterious deaths need to be probed while his own personal life is in free fall....
Peter Lovesey has been hailed by the critics as "superlative", "a master of the genre", "never puts a foot wrong" and the Peter Diamond series as "one of the most enjoyable police series around". This new case for the much-loved detective will bring new praise and much satisfaction for his legions of fans.
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- Susan
- 08-01-14
Classical Diamond
Peter Diamond is my favourite fictional detective and I think that this latest book is one of the best of the series.
A badly decomposed body is recovered from a canal in Bath. The death could be the result of an accident or suicide, but Diamond suspects murder and a major incident investigation gets underway. Soon Bath CID are investigating three murders.
At around the same time viola player Mel Farran receives a mysterious approach to join a renowned string quartet.
This is an excellent whodunnit with believable characters and there's a good Agatha Christie style reveal at the end. I enjoyed the look into the world of classical musicians, Peter Lovesey has obviously done a lot of research. I have been inspired to listen to Beethoven's Grosse Fugue.
Michael Tudor Barnes' narration was very good as usual.
Could we have the first books of the series on audio please Audible?
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- iris
- 17-05-14
Highly enjoyable listen.
This is an excellent and classical piece of detective fiction which is extremely well read. The characters are mainly musicians and each one of them is very vivid and has particular quirks of behaviour so you are kept guessing until the end which one might or might not be involved in the murders. Plenty of twists and turns in the story line to keep you gripped to the end. The relationship of the detecitvie with his girlfriend is sometimes slightly tedious but don't let that put you off listening.
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- JR
- 23-09-23
Getting us to know Bath.
I love listening to these Peter Diamond story’s as I garden. As a family we have just moved to Bath and we are getting to know it so much better because of these books. Thank you Peter Lovesey. I hope you keep writing them.
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- Jane
- 27-11-20
Excellent as always
Yet another great read. Almost finished the entire series so shall be very sorry to come to the end. As always, you learn something new and this time it’s about musical ensembles. Nice to revisit the same characters and places.
I haven’t read them strictly in order but would suggest you do if you can, but still enjoyable anyway.
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- Mrs J M Sewell
- 09-12-15
Another triumph for Inspector Diamond and Peter Lovesey
With well drawn characters, some unexpected twists in the plot this makes an excellent read as do all the Inspector Diamond series. All the more enjoyable for the setting in Bath, my favourite city.
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- Learning is fun!
- 05-02-17
Unusual
Another good story. Plenty if interesting characters though a little less believable than the last few
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- Esme
- 30-04-22
Enjoyable listen but..
The narrator was good and I liked the effort of the Bath accent. The storyline was not the author’s best and the conclusion was very disappointing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-01-24
A gripping story set in the fascinating world of an internation string quartet
The plot and characters were great but the detail of the string players’ skills, instruments and the music they played was brilliant.
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- Border Terrier
- 26-07-19
Too contrived
Far too contrived. Too contrived. Too contrived. Too contrived. Too contrived. Too contrived. Too contrived. Too contrived. Time for the author to change his formula.
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- mollyeyre
- 04-07-14
A trifle dreary
The story started with an incident where a Viola player was mugged ..... and there seemed no reason in the story for this incident. Mind you - it is possible that my brain had gone into a stupor because of the tedium of the narrators speech - and maybe I missed something. I wouldn't be prepared to listen again to find out.
I found the story rather dreary and very slow moving, and the narration was really awful, the accents made people sound stupid, the detective was supposed to have a Bristol or Bath accent, but he came across as slow and daft. The characters overall were not believable.
Really not my cup of tea - but I did actually see it through to the end.
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