Booklog 37/2024: Sarah Painter: The Silver Mark – Crow Investigations #2 – Audiobook

Lydia Crow, a daughter of the notorious magical Crow family has set up her own private detective agency in the flat above her uncle Charlie's cafe, the Fork, complete with its resident ghost, Jason. Fed up with taking infidelity cases she  decides to investigate a particularly public murder - a man found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge with bricks in his pockets) . This leads her into conflict with the Silver family - one of the four magical fsmilies of London and the owners of a prestigious law firm.  Her police contact, DCI Fleet, has become a lot more than that, and information goes in both directions. A second murder complicates the first investigation, but solving it  is going to cause trouble in the Families.

Booklog 38/2024: Sarah Painter: The Fox’s Curse – Crow Investigations #3 – Audiobook

Audiobook read by Kate Rawson.
Lydia Crow, a daughter of the notorious magical Crow family  has set up her own private detective agency, but she's being pulled closer and closer into the family, when she's always tried to keep separate. Her own magical abilities, which she's always believed to be limited, are more complex than  she realised. She seems to be empowering her ghostly flatmate to become more solid, which affecting her dad's Alzheimers-like condition adversely. Paul Fox, son of the similarly magical Fox family blackmails her into taking on a case on his behalf which sends her into a disused area of the London Underground where she finds a body, one she realises is a Fox. And he appears to be cursed.  The Fox Family seems to be playing nasty games and Lydia is their target. Though the main conflict is resolved at the end of the book there's a plot point dangling which leads straight into the next book. So far I've listened to three in a row, and am now starting on number four.