Wilkie Martin 
Inspector Hobbes and the Blood 
(unhuman I) Fast-Paced Comedy Crime Fantasy

As a crime wave breaks in the quiet Cotswold streets, Andy Caplet, a failed reporter, is reluctantly immersed in Inspector Hobbess investigation. Allergic to danger and exercise, Andy is thrown into grave confusion as he discovers not everyone is human. Not only must he come to terms with Hobbess extreme oddness, and the tooth-collection of Hobbess housekeeper, the indomitable Mrs Goodfellow, but he must work out if a suicide, a murder, and several robberies are connected? And what is the connection?Hobbes goes missing. The cops decide hes big and bad enough to look after himself, but Andy, striving against deep-rooted incompetence and clumsiness, sets out to find him. With a big bad dog to assist, armed only with a leg of lamb, and despite losing his trousers, he discovers the key to the mystery is in the blood. But whose blood? Where is Hobbes? And can he catch vampirism off false teeth?This is the first in Wilkie Martins unhuman series of fast-paced, comic fantasy crime adventures, with lashings of great food.Odd, inventive, and genuinely very funny indeed Cotswold Life