Brian's Book Blog

Peter Grant is back to being 50% of the Folly, the branch of the police dealing with the supernatural.
This time, he's off his home turf of London and headed off to the country.

Ostensibly going to take a look into a missing persons case, it soon turns into something else.

Good vein of humour running through the story, with plenty of characters ranging from the local constabulary to the locals. And Beverley, the river goddess.

There's enough going on to keep you turning the pages, although this did make it quite a quick read. This book is pretty much all Peter, without the rest of the Folly behind him, and Aaronovitch could have done a lot more with that, but has kept him fairly restrained.

This is probably the weakest of the Peter Grant novels so far, but it ties in with the others in the series and will hopefully pick up again in the next book.