In the second novel, as Peter investigates the deaths of jazz musicians, he first encounters the magical player who become a deep threat in the series: The Faceless Man, whose fae or demon minions are the causes of great violence, and whose terrorist attacks make him the most dangerous adversary of the Folly, the magical branch of the Met. Magic impacts Peter and his partner, PC Lesley May, as early as the first book-May, in working their first case in Midnight Riot, suffers a serious magical injury that haunts her through the rest of the series. Peter becomes deeply embroiled with the magical world-called the Demi-monde-interacting with fae, the gods and goddesses of London’s rivers, and other magic users, some of whom don’t have Nightingale’s scruples.įurther reading: The Best New Fantasy Books Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who is also the last officially registered wizard in England, takes Peter under his wing, both as a police officer and as a magical apprentice. The Furthest Station: There's something going bump on the Metropolitan line and Sergeant Jaget Kumar knows exactly who to call.It's PC Peter Grant's speciality. Lies Sleeping: Martin Chorley - aka the Faceless Man - wanted for multiple counts of murder, fraud and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run. The Hanging Tree: Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly, even when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the most expensive apartment blocks in London. Foxglove Summer: Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London - to a small village in Herefordshire. A unique blend of police procedural, loving detail about the greatest character of all, London, and a dash of the supernatural.
Broken Homes: Ben Aaronovitch has stormed the bestseller list with his superb London crime series. Whispers Under Ground: Doctor Who Screenwriter Ben Aaronovitch's superbly entertaining supernatural crime series has, with its witty one-liners and wonderfully erudite take on London, won a legion of fans in double quick time. And it's why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing. Moon Over Soho: I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that's how I know my Argo from my Tempo. Rivers of London: My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else).
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