- Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Germany, fiction, Fiction, Police
"If you thought magic was confinied to one country...think again. Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany's oldest city. So when a man is found dead with his body covered in a fingal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth.
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Classical in form, cool, contemporary and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ben Aaronovitch
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Tantor Audio, Tantor and Blackstone Publishing
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781665238038
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“In late September, as the nights close in, a strange madness possesses my father.”
Ben Aaronovitch was born in 1964. He had parents, some brothers, some sisters and a dog named after a Russian cosmonaut. He also had the kind of dull childhood that drives a person to drink, radical politics or science fiction. Discovering in his early twenties that he had precisely one talent, he took up screenwriting at which he was an overnight success. He wrote for Doctor Who, Casualty and the world’s cheapest ever SF soap opera Jupiter Moon. He then wrote for Virgin’s New Adventures until they pulped all his books. Then Ben entered a dark time illuminated only by an episode of Dark Knight, a book for Big Finish and the highly acclaimed but not-very-well-paying Blake’s 7 Audio dramas. Tr
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