Booklog 39/2024: Sarah Painter: The Pearl King – Crow Investigations #4 – 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 business by what happened at the end of the previous book.  Lydia has told Uncle Charlie that she's all-in with the family business, but the mysterious Mr Smith - some kind of government operative - has her on the hook and is insisting she share Family information. Lydia is caught between the proverbial rock and hard place, and to make matters worse she's trying to keep DCI Fleet, her lover, at arm's length. She's also worried that the truce between London's magical families is breaking down. And then the daughter of one of Uncle Charlie's friends goes missing and a man turns up in a mental hospital with no memory since he was sixteen. The Pearl family is involved somehow and there's something odd in local woodland. And then there's Uncle Charlie, who might be a bit more 'old school' than Lydia thought he was.