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Title: False Diamond

Author: Veronica Heley

Narrator: Patience Tomlinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-14

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The fake diamond in Dilys Holland's engagement ring implies that all is not well with her marriage. And Bea Abbot has already clashed with Dilys's husband, the bullying Benton, when she refuses to help him rescue his ailing company. But matters are about to turn a great deal worse when Dilys tries to commit suicide. Or does she?

Members Reviews:

Domestic Abuse

This book features what happens when there is domestic abuse. How it efforts those around the abuser and victim. Holland Industry is still trying to get Bea to merge her Domestic Business with their trading academy. Bea doesn't trust the manager, Benton and refuses the merge. Bea is asked to convince Benton's wife, Dilys to take her diamond wedding ring to be appraised. Bea able to get Dilys to admit that the ring is a fake and she is a scared of Benton. Max and Nicole are both involved with Benton's schemes. The book takes you on a journey through Dily's life and her family's. The ending will surprise you. I high!y recommend this book and series.

Abbot Agency series

I generally enjoy this author's books very much, especially this series. But, I was shocked at a scene in the book (spoiler alert) where a character strikes Bea, the main character, in the face several times while her son watches and does nothing. I wish the author would drop the continuing theme of her son's selfish, nasty behavior. Otherwise, I liked the story, although I did guess who the murderer was.

best book in this excellent series!

I couldn't help myself. I wanted to slowly savor the latest Abbott Agency novel from Veronica Heley, "False Diamond" -- after all, the U.S. release date for the next one,False Impression: A Bea Abbot British Murder Mystery (An Abbot Agency Mystery), won't be for two months! But I just couldn't: The novel was simply riveting from the first to the last, and I read it almost straight through. Damn!

Widowed Bea Abbott inherited the Abbott Agency, a company that places domestic help -- temporary or permanent -- with London's better families and firms. Now her self-important son Max Abbott, a member of Parliament with a selfish, ambitious wife, wants his mother to sacrifice so that he can climb the political ladder: He wants Bea to merge her firm with a larger one, Holland and Butcher, which trains domestic staff. (That firm featured in the previousFalse Report.) Holland and Butcher's managing director, the brutish Benton, tries to force Bea to give up the agency, and it's a pleasure to see Bea go toe-to-toe with the smug Benton and rescue the man's wife and daughter while she's at it -- although she herself is then accused of murder!

In addition to a fabulous mystery, "False Diamond" also serves as a reminder that love, generosity, and kindness determine one's true family, not blood. I loved Bea's motley crew: the computer genius Oliver, good-hearted if insecure Maggie, Maggie's "sort of" boyfriend Zander, the "grey mandarin" C.J. Cambridge (as Bea calls him), a new member of the team, an intrepid and courageous taxi driver named Lucas. The group manages to suss out what's going at Holland and Butcher and the dirty details of the wealthy Holland family.

I've loved all of Bea Abbott's adventures, but False Diamond is, as Bea would say, "a gem of the first water" -- the absolute best in the series.