Medieval Crime Comedy is not supposed to be a thing, yet here is book No 20. 100,000 sales and 1000 reviews including things like 5* “hilarious and fun”.

And now there’s more investigation for Brother Hermitage just when you thought he’d given up that sort of thing.

The King’s Investigator Part II, surprisingly following on from Part I, finds that things have not improved.

But this time it’s a missing person and there isn’t a murder at all; well, perhaps just a little one.
And this is a Very Important Missing Person who needs urgent investigation, whether Hermitage likes it or not.

Following a completely blatant trail that even Hermitage can track, he has to call upon the help of people he’d really rather not call upon at all. He has to go to places he’d rather not go and face consequences better not faced.

A chase upriver means a boat – and we all know who that means. And worst of all, there’s the suggestion that someone might be after Wat’s money!

Of course, the Normans are making things as difficult as ever but now he has people harassing him from all sides. There are more forces at play than seems decent for one investigation.

And who’s this hiding in the woods? Surely not….

Read Part II and rest assured that there is no Part III.

People have talked about the King’s Investigator before they even knew it was only Part I.

5* Side-splitting, laugh a minute addition to the series.
5* Please, Howard of Warwick, give us more
5* Wonderful, laughing aloud as I was reading this.
5* Another masterpiece from the quill of Howard of Warwick, gut-bustingly funny from start to finish
5* Another winner from our master of comedic medieval murder mysteries!

Unlike most, we also report the lowest rating!

3* I would like a longer story and it felt like this was the end of the series, which made me sad.