‘The Kings Market Killer’ by Francis Lloyd is the sixth in the DI Jack Dawes and DS Mike (Bugsy) Malone series. They work in the Metropolitan Murder Investigation Team in Kings Richington, Richmond. These two together make a cracking team. Jack is married to Coriander, who sometimes comes to his aid as well as running a catering company. Bugsy has just got engaged to Iris, a wonder in itself as this was one man whose sole outlook on love was Arsenal!
This story sees Fenella Wilson who has had it to the back teeth with her mother-in-law, she even went on their honeymoon! C’mon can’t blame her! Even her husband constantly sides with his mother. So Fenella and her friend Judy, make a plan…to poison her jam. As always things don’t go smoothly. Dawes has this and all the other crime to deal with, so he ain’t exactly resting on his laurels!
A fantastically well-plotted and entertaining story, although I do love Dawes and Bugsy. I thoroughly enjoyed the extra special additions of the wonderfully described food too. When Fenella’s plan goes crazily wrong and the precision of her planning really shows just how precise… especially as people start to die. Well, what can I say? Dawes certainly has plenty to get on with.
As always in a Francis Lloyd book, the characters are certainly colourful and larger than life, this adds to an already entertaining story and always has me glued to the book, beginning to end.
Thanks to Joffe Books for the copy of the book for my review today.
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