Absalon Trilogy

Marguerite, a down-at-heel detective, investigates, in minute and comically digressive detail, the disappearance of Harold Absalon, the Mayor's transport advisor. He follows, and then is followed by, Harold's wife Isobel and their young child around an unnamed modern city resembling London. Finding himself cornered by Isobel it emerges that Marguerite may be more closely implicated than we think.