Tayside Police say the Jenny Methven murder investigation has not been scaled down.
Around 80 officers remain deployed on the six-week long investigation.
”The numbers fluctuate it depends on the demands of the inquiry but the number of officers involved in the inquiry has not been scaled back,” said a police spokesman.
The main focus of the inquiry is the home of Blairgowrie man William Kean (46), who lives in Gallowbank Drive.
White-suited specialist search officers have been combing the area in and around the house and at one stage the team numbered around a dozen.
Only near neighbours were able to approach the scene to gain access to their houses while the search was under way. A vehicle was previously removed from the street for forensic examination.
Mr Kean is in Murray Royal Hospital in Perth, recovering from wounds that are believed to have been self-inflicted in an attempted suicide bid.
An acquaintance of Mr Methven, Mr Kean is well-known in the town where he owned a car valeting business which he sold last year.
Police have been stationed outside his house since the injured man was taken from the village of Woodside to hospital just over a week ago and it is understood that officers have yet to speak to him.
A police presence also remains at the cottage at Kildinny Farm where Mrs Methven’s body was discovered on February 20.
The cottage, which lies between Forteviot and Forgandenny, is still boarded up.