Jacey Bedford's Journal

Tim Wassiter left the police to become a new kind of detective, one attuned to the occult and trying to use new-age methods of divination to solve crimes. Unfortunately the only case currently on the books is his neighbour, Mrs Woosencraft's missing cat, which is a little odd because Tim's own cat, Morse, has also vanished. Just off the coast of Brighton a mermaid emerges from the sea sporting a new name, Foxy Bolivia, and pair of feet that might take some getting used to. Tim and Foxy are destined to run into each other in the local pet store because Foxy is having cat trouble as well, in this case a surfeit.

When Tim is visited by Dolores Vogler, a lascivious beauty who wants him to find a special car belonging to her 'husband', he takes the job. The roll of notes possibly being more of an inducement than the shapely young lady or her equally voluptuous, but dangerous, friends. Expect magic, mystery, a mermaid, a Babylonian mathematician called Banipal, Tim's old police partner, Troy Jarglebaum, and a millionaire with good ideas and bad associates. 

This is quirky gem of a book. Recommended.