Inspector Hobbes and the Common People: Cozy Crime Fantasy (Large Print): 5 (Unhuman)

No stranger to fear since meeting the unhuman Inspector Hobbes Andy Caplet fears getting fired from his reporting job (again). His main concern though is a shady property developer who has designs on Sorenchester Common and more annoyingly on his wife. Perhaps a trip to the mountains will help him relax but this proves even more perilous with foul weather inedible food brigands and a terrifying cruise. Fortunately mountain leopards yetis and Flossy the yak take a shine to Andy. Back in the Cotswolds a child gets murdered and a new detective takes on the case. When Hobbes returns he (with Andys dubious assistance) is relegated to hunting an enormous bird with killer feet. Meanwhile Andy still worries about the common and the reclusive Common People (surely not yetis?) who will lose their homes if the housing development goes ahead. This standalone novel is the fifth in Wilkie Martins unhuman series of cozy comedy crime fantasies.