Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
My name is Peter Grant, and I'm a Police Constable in that mighty army for justice known as the Metropolitan Police (a.k.a. the Filth). I'm also an apprentice wizard, the first in fifty years. When your dad is an almost famous jazz trumpeter, you know the classics. And that's why, when Dr Walid called me down to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognized the tune it was playing as the jazz classic 'Body and Soul.' Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint on his corpse as if it were a wax cylinder recording. The former owner of the body, Cyrus Wilkinson, was a part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant who had dropped dead of a heart attack just after finishing a gig. He wasn't the first, but no one was going to let me exhume corpses just to see if they were playing my tune. So it was back to old-fashioned police legwork, starting in Soho, the heart of the scene, with the lovely Simone - Cyrus's ex-lover, professional jazz kitten and as inviting as a Rubens portrait - as my guide. And it didn't take me long to realise there were monsters stalking Soho, creatures feeding off that special gift that separates the great musician from someone who can raise a decent tune. What they take is beauty. What they leave behind is sickness, failure and broken lives.Ben Aaronovitch was born in London in 1964 and grew up with the kind of boring routine that leads a man to drink or to write science fiction. He is a screenwriter who rose to prominence thanks to his work on BBC television's iconic Doctor Who, for which he penned certain episodes that are now widely recognized as classics and which he himself enjoys. He's also the author of a number of innovative TV tie-in novels. After a decade of this type of work, he thought it was time to show the world what he was capable of, and he began writing his first serious original novel. As a result, Peter Grant's first adventure, Midnight Riot, was published, followed by Moon Over Soho.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781625676160 |
| ISBN 10 | 1625676166 |
| Title | Moon Over Soho |
| Author | Ben Aaronovitch |
| Series | Rivers Of London |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. |
| Year published | 2024-01-16 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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