The best way to describe this book is Sherlock Holmes meets Harry Potter. This is the first on a series which follows Peter Grant, police officer with the London Met and apprentice wizard. While I enjoyed this book from the start I found it slightly slow in the beginning. The reason of course is ...
Mmm, a story based around Punch and Judy, Mother Thames (African lady) and Father Thames!! Stretching it a bit there, for my tastes.I found the narrator's tone ever so slightly condescending, but that could just be me.The many references to the protagonist's lurid thoughts about the females he ca...
The second Peter Grant book, this time revolving around jazz musicians dying suddenly and Peter's enthusiastic new girlfriend. That part of the story was interesting, but the stuff about the Faceless Man confused me. Sure, it's horrifying, but who is he and what's his deal? If it was ever expl...
For PC Peter Grant's third outing, he goes underground - the sewers and Tube of London. These are great engineering masterpieces of the Victorian era, and it's no surprise to find that the fae and the 'other' have made them their own.We've got a nasty murder on our hands, and an FBI agent to cope...