There is a HUGE plot development which shocked me but that makes total sense in retrospect.

There's really no point reading this unless you have read all the others - and I urge you to do that straight away because they are great! As a story it mainly feels like its getting you from one place to another along the story arc but with enough interesting stuff along the way to keep you interested. The main thing about this book is that it definitely feels like a bridge between Whispers Undergound and Book 5. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil: an associate of the twisted magician known as the Faceless Man? Or just a common or garden serial killer?īefore PC Peter Grant can get his head round the case, a town planner going under a tube train and a stolen grimoire are adding to his caseload.īut then Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle, on a housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans, and inhabited by the truly desperate.Īnd if there is, why oh why did it have to be South of the River?įull of warmth, sly humour and a rich cornucopia of things you never knew about London, Aaronovitch's series has swiftly added Grant's magical London to Rebus' Edinburgh and Morse's Oxford as a destination of choice for those who love their crime with something a little extra. Ben Aaronovitch has stormed the best-seller list with his superb London crime series - a unique blend of police procedural loving detail about the greatest character of all, London and a dash of the supernatural.Ī mutilated body in Crawley.

Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch