- Wizards, Police, Missing children, Fiction
"When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable Peter Grant has to leave London to check that nothing supernatural is involved. It's purely routine, Nightingale thinks he'll be done in less than a day. But Peter's never been one to walk away from someone in trouble, so when nothing overtly magical turns up he volunteers his services to the local police, who need all the help they can get. But because the universe likes a joke as much as the next sadistic megalomaniac, Peter soon comes to realise that dark secrets underlie the picturesque fields and villages of the countryside and there might just be work for Britain's most junior wizard after all."
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Contemporary, classical in form, effortless and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Ben Aaronovitch
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 355
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Orion Publishing Co
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780575132504
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“I was just passing the Hoover Centre when I heard Mr Punch scream his rage behind me.”
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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