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 and 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 and 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 and Castle on an housing estate designed by a nutter built by charlatans and 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 and a rich cornucopia of things you never knew about London Aaronovitchs series has swiftly added Grants magical London to Rebus Edinburgh and Morses Oxford as a destination of choice for those who love their crime with something a little extra.
