Ben Aaronovitch has stormed the bestseller list with his superb London crime series A unique blend of police procedural loving detail about the greatest character of all London & a dash of the supernatural A mutilated body in Crawley Another killer on the loose The prime suspect is one Robert Weil
- an associate of the twisted magician known as the Faceless Man? Or just a common garden serial killer? Before PC Peter Grant can get his head round the case a town planner going under a tube train & a stolen grimoire are adding to his case-load So far so London But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant & Castle on an housing estate designed by a nutter built by charlatans & inhabited by the truly desperate Is there a connection? And if there is why oh why did it have to be South of the River? Full of warmth sly humour & a rich cornucopia of things you never knew about London Aaronovitch's series has swiftly added Grant's magical London to Rebus' Edinburgh & Morse's Oxford as a destination of choice for those who love their crime with something a little extra