Available here (paperback 2023)

The whole reason I ended up reading What Happened In London by Kim M Watt was because of looking for another audiobook to listen to and it suggesting All Out Of Leeds.

All Out Of Leeds mentioned though that reading the prologue, What Happened In London, would provide a bit more backstory and allow me to understand the relevance of a duck. So, of course, I decided to read things out of publication date order and start with the prologue or 0.5 book of the series about DI Adams instead.

So now I know all about the duck, where it came from and its purpose and significance in DI Adams life. I also know that toasties are bad but brownies are good. It has some real mild humour gems scattered throughout the writing, not in that laugh out load sort of way but more of a mental chuckle to yourself moment. It is safe to say though that what happened in London did not stay in London.

Despite all that though it does also touch on a few more serious topics including homelessness and crime in a big city. It gives a focus that people should not be judged based on very specific circumstances and that stereotypes get people nowhere at all; But also bins, never think of a bin as just a bin ever again.

It was a fairly short book to be able to power through reading but packed enough of a punch to get the story and mysterious elements across, provide a bit of character building and perhaps a small amount of world building too for it to really lure me in to want to read the rest of the series properly (I then tried to listen to All Out Of Leeds but the narrator just wasn’t doing it for me).

If you want a light-hearted crime series that is based on real places in the UK but with a bit of a magical and mysterious twist, without verging on the absolutely ridiculous, then I would certainly suggest giving this DI Adams series a go.