Well, I think I tried to summarise them once as the lovechild of Harry Potter, Hot Fuzz and the London Underground ... I think I read the tagline once 'Harry Potter grows up and joins the Met.'
There are five or six out afaik - I've read the first four. The main character is Peter Grant, an ordinary London PC who stumbles upon magic and then the journey starts as he finds a secret police department and is taught to do magic by a weird old-fashioned magician-inspector and meets the spirits of the London rivers, etc. All the books have their own murder mystery, but there is also an arch for all of them that up to #4 is still unresolved, plays into all the other murder mysteries, and is getting curiouser and also more hair-pulling with every book! (esp. #4 ended with a twist I NEVER expected and in fact still half-believe just CANNOT be true, but on the other hand it totally makes sense, so ...).
If you like both magic/supernatural urban fantasies and murder mysteries, with a dose of pure Englishness, a little random weirdness and a very self-deprecating narrator, then I'll recommend them with two thumbs up!
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Date: 2015-01-03 08:06 pm (UTC)There are five or six out afaik - I've read the first four. The main character is Peter Grant, an ordinary London PC who stumbles upon magic and then the journey starts as he finds a secret police department and is taught to do magic by a weird old-fashioned magician-inspector and meets the spirits of the London rivers, etc. All the books have their own murder mystery, but there is also an arch for all of them that up to #4 is still unresolved, plays into all the other murder mysteries, and is getting curiouser and also more hair-pulling with every book! (esp. #4 ended with a twist I NEVER expected and in fact still half-believe just CANNOT be true, but on the other hand it totally makes sense, so ...).
If you like both magic/supernatural urban fantasies and murder mysteries, with a dose of pure Englishness, a little random weirdness and a very self-deprecating narrator, then I'll recommend them with two thumbs up!