Set in a little Cotswold city, Inspector Hobbes and the Bloodstream is a fast-paced humor cozy mystery dream about the journeys of Andy, an incompetent reporter, when he’s reluctantly dealing with Inspector Hobbes, a police detective having a status. Andy soon finds himself immersed in a global where not everyone is individual, and a late-night trip to a churchyard nearly results in grave implications, and a ghoulish outcome. An accidental open fire leads to Andy needing to doss in Hobbes’s spare room.

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Contending using a wave of murder, suicide and robbery, aswell as Hobbes’s weirdness, is the just the start; he must also get to grips with Mrs Goodfellow, Hobbes’s housekeeper, who collects teeth. Although they are mostly from human beings, she also statements to involve some vampire specimens. However, Andy soon finds her wonderful cooking compensates for her eccentricities. Despite Andy thinking he’s coping, he is almost unhinged by horror whenever a stressed Hobbes’s concealed character reveals itself within an orgy of bone-crunching. Yet, coming through unscathed, Andy develops respect and admiration for his sponsor, even though he uses strange, occasionally brutal, solutions to start unravelling the secret, which seems to link The Order of the Dragon and Vlad Tepes, the original Dracula, towards the crime wave.

When Hobbes moves missing, Andy, with the dubious assistance of Dregs, Hobbes’s big, bad puppy, and armed with a knee of lamb, looks for him. Can he overcome crazed bloodstream lust and human sacrifice?

May Andy with Hobbes’s friends, a binge-drinking dwarf and a troll who looks uncannily human being, save the day? And will Andy catch vampirism from false teeth?

These and various other questions may be answered in Inspector Hobbes and the Blood.