espresso_addict's response was:

Set in Stone by Robert Goddard. I was looking for a new (to me) crime writer while rained out in the Lakes, and thought someone had recommended Goddard. I hope I was mistaken, because I hated it. It's a mix of supernatural with cold war spy thriller, both handled very clumsily, & the two themes didn't mix. The narrator is talking to his deceased wife, which wasted a lot of words in boring nothings.