The Yellow Diamond
A Crime of the Super-Rich
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Detective Superintendent George Quinn - Mayfair resident and dandy with a razor-sharp brain - has set up a new police unit, dedicated to investigating the super-rich. When he is shot in mysterious circumstances, DI Blake Reynolds is charged with taking over. But Reynolds hadn't bargained for Quinn's personal assistant - the flinty Victoria Clifford - who knows more than she's prepared to reveal...
The trail left by Quinn leads to a jewellery theft, a murderous conspiracy among some of the most glamorous (and richest) Russians in London - and the beautiful Anna, who challenges Reynolds' professional integrity. Reynolds and Clifford must learn to work together fast - or risk Quinn's fate.
Set in the heart of twenty-first-century Mayfair, a world of champagne, Lamborghinis and Savile Row suits, The Yellow Diamond is a brilliant new venture from one of our best loved crime authors - meticulously plotted, wonderfully humane and hugely enjoyable.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this intricate standalone from Martin (The Baghdad Railway Club and seven other Jim Stringer mysteries), a shooting leaves Det. Supt. George Quinn in a coma, creating a vacancy for the head of the new Operational Command Unit formed to keep tabs on London's so-called super-rich. Behind Det. Insp. Blake Edwards's somewhat surprising appointment is Victoria Clifford, Quinn's secretary, who wields unusual influence. Edwards discovers that Quinn was looking into several things, including the affairs of billionaire Andrei Samarin; the theft of a valuable yellow diamond ring involving Andrei's daughter, Anna Samarina; and the murder of hedge-fund analyst John-Paul Holden. Edwards is thrown into the unfamiliar world of the super-rich, guided and manipulated by Clifford. As he follows Quinn's trail, he's seduced by Anna, bribed by Andrei, and threatened by Andrei's partner, Viktor Rostov. The role and aims of the enigmatic Clifford add an unusual element to what develops into a complex tale of financial skullduggery.
