Booklog 80/2024: Sarah Hawkswood: A Taste for Killing – Bradecote & Catchpoll #10 – Audiobook

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Audiobook narrated by Matt Addis

It’s 1145 and Godfrey Bowyer, the best but most unlikeable bow make in Worcester, dies, poisoned, while his wife, Blanche, eats the same meal and, though ill, survives. Under-Sherriff Hugh Bradecote, Serjeant Catchpoll and Under-Serjeant Walkeling must investigate the murder. One murder turns into two and there are a couple of false trails before everything points to the guilty party. On top of all this Bradecote’s wife is about to give birth and since Bradecote’s first wife died in childbirth, he’d understandably worried. Young Walkelin is growing in investigative skills, and considering marriage, if he can placate his mother about bringing another woman into the house. Nice twisty plot and three-dimensional characters. Matt Addis narrates well.