The Stone Wife Magpie When he opens the boot

When he opens the boot of a wrecked Pontiac Bonneville in his father's junkyard

toxic friendship and ambition

and the story continues in a land that is beset by enemies

destroying the village of Lower Slaughter as it goes

The Stone Wife Magpie When he opens the bootJust 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