Review: False Value by Ben Aaronovitch

False Value is the 8th book by Ben Aaronovitch in the Rivers of London series. I bought the hard cover copy with the glow in the dark cover, and – much to my surprise – it turned out to be a signed copy. I only found out when I cracked it open to start reading.

Plot:

Peter Grant is facing becoming a father of twins, and is both enthusiastic, and quite worried. He takes a job as a security guard at a London start up called the Serious Cybernetics Company, which is run by Sillicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner. The job soon becomes more serious, as Peter tries to figure out what exactly Skinner is hiding. And how it all connects to the magical demi-monde that he’s a part of.

Review: Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch

Lies Sleeping is the seventh instalment of the PC Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch.

Plot:

The Faceless Man has been murdering, sacrificing, committing fraud, and done even more heinous things, but the police and the Folly know his identity now and they’ve got him on the run. Peter Grant, now Detective Constable, is one of the key figures in the operation to bring him down once and for all. But a cornered animal is at its most dangerous, and cornered magicians even more so. The Faceless Man isn’t going down without a fight and a show, and is in the midst of completing one final mission. If he were to succeed, London will be forever changed. It’s up to Peter, and his colleagues, to stop him before he does. If they can.

New Additions #96

I heard about this one coming out only a week ago (I can’t believe how out of the loop I was) but made sure to order it immediately!

Review: The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch

The Furthest Station is a part of the PC Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch, only it’s not a book or a graphic novel, it’s novella! I feared the novella format would be too short to properly enjoy, but that turned out to be a faulty assumption.

Plot:

Ghosts are not a rare occurrence on the London Underground, but these ghosts are different. They are aggressive and frightening. And it seems these ghost have an urgent message; only they can’t seem to deliver it. Luckily Peter Grant is on the case! He is joined by Nightingale, Jaget Kumar, Toby the ghost hunting dog and his teenage cousin, Abigail, who has been dabbling in magic herself.

Review: The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch

The Hanging Tree is the sixth novel in the PC Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch. I thought it was the last in the series, but luckily I was wrong.

Plot:

Peter is back in London and finds himself assigned to a case of accidental overdose. There doesn’t seem to be anything ‘Folly’ related about the case, until it becomes clear one of the witnesses is the daughter of Lady Ty. Goddess of River Tyburn. Sister of his girlfriend Beverly Brook. And she’s going to cash in that favour he owes her for saving his life when he was buried alive.

Review: Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

Foxglove Summer is the fifth book in the PC Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch, and I believe the first book in which Peter spends the majority of his time not in London.

Plot:

As the events of the last book have left Peter shaken, he jumps at the chance to spend some time outside of London. Unfortunately, the case he’s assisting on is a dark one: two pre-teen girls have gone missing in rural Herefordshire. There’s no indication that there might be magic involved, but that doesn’t stop for Peter from worrying. Time is running out.

Review: Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch

Whispers Underground is the third book in the Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch. I devoured this book in little more than a day.

Plot:

PC Peter Grant is called to the Underground while pursuing a lead about the wizard who’d tried to kill him during his previous adventure, and when he gets there he’s greeted by the terrible sight of a man stabbed to death. Though he doesn’t pick up any magical residue from the body, he does from what they assume to be the murder weapon. A shard of some kind of ceramic. With the help of his mentor Nightingale, his now fellow student PC Lesley May whose face is still ruined, the Murder Team and a strange bloke named Zach who is more than he lets on, Peter descends into the tunnels of the London underground and the sewers. All while being followed by a pesky FBI agent who has pegged him as suspicious.

Review: Moon over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

Moon over Soho is the second book in the Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch.

Plot:

PC Peter Grant is back and as doggedly as ever. A jazz musician dies of ‘natural causes’, but the magical signature the body gives off, tells him and doctor Wallid there’s something strange afoot. A journalist is horribly murdered by having his penis bitten off. Two separate cases that Grant has to solve, while his mentor Nightingale and his friend Lesley are still recovering from their ordeals connected to his previous cases, his father is getting back into the jazz scene, and a voluptuous woman enters his life.

Review: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

Rivers of London is the first book in Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant series. It’s contemporary Fantasy, which usually isn’t my thing, but I enjoyed this novel a lot.

Plot:

PC Peter Grant is a young English policeman who, after an encounter with a ghost, is recruited into a ‘secret’ branch of the Metropolitan police that deals only with magical cases.