Aaronovitch is a name to watch.”-Peter F. Now, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic. Peter’s ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. But Peter’s prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost.

Peter’s friend and fellow probationary constable Leslie goes for coffee and when she is gone, a man who answers to. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he’ll face is a paper cut. The first book in a series, Midnight Riot opens with Peter Grant, a young probationary constable with the London Metropolitan Police and the book’s narrator, guarding a scene in Covent Garden where a decapitated body was found. Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police.

It is a hilarious, keenly imagined caper.”-Diana Gabaldon Midnight Riot is the kind of book that people like me, absolute anglophile and devoted BBC lover, couldn’t help but like.

“ Midnight Riot is what would happen if Harry Potter grew up and joined the Fuzz.

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