Foxe and the Cost of Wild Oats

Foxe and the Cost of Wild oats (An Ashmole Foxe Georgian Mystery)

By William Savage

Genre:-Historical Crime Fiction

Pages:-296

Blurb:-"Remember this. Those who sow their wild oats without thought for others sometimes live to reap a bitter harvest."

 Foxe and Lucy have had only two weeks to savour the pleasures of matrimony when a well-liked city merchant is found brutally murdered at the quay by the River Wensum. At once, they are drawn into the hunt for his killer.

 All agree that Josiah Hartley was an inoffensive, upright man and not at all the type to die in such a violent way. Yet someone hated him enough to want him killed. Who was it? His adulterous wife? An angry competitor? Someone he had cheated?

 From the start of their investigation, Foxe and his new wife encounter layers upon layers of confusion, obsessive secrecy and cunning deception. Why did Mr Hartley condone the scandalous behaviour of his wife for so many years? What was the reason for the strangely complex way he had arranged his finances? By what means were the ownership and value of his successful business excluded from his Will?

 Only after determined efforts, backed by all Foxe's experience and cunning, are he and Lucy able to thread their way through a bewildering maze of dead ends, irrelevant diversions and carefully hidden pathways to reveal the identity of a vicious killer.

Thank you 

Instagram:-@lovebookstours #Ad #Gifted #BookTwitter #Bookstagram #LBTCrew

Twitter:-@KellyALacey @lovebookstours #BookTwitter

My Review:- Book 9 in "An Ashmole Foxe Georgian Mystery". I had the pleasure of following Ashmole Foxe from Book 1 and now he's back again but now he's with Lucy. I do feel like he's part of my family because I've been with him so long and learnt so much about him.

 Foxe and Lucy have only had two weeks together but his services are in need again. The night before his services are called for, his wife Lucy had wrote a letter to her friend Charlotte saying how she was looking forward to upcoming mysteries and murders, little did she know it was going to be that quick.

This murder isn't as simple as some of Foxe's investigation. As Foxe and Lucy start to look closer at Josiah Hartley background nothing is what it seems. Once Foxe starts asking around he starts to find things he wasn't expecting and could it be a link to why he was murdered. These books are really well wrote and I do love that we have characters from previous books. I'm looking for to the finale book, to see what is going to happen with Foxe.