Foxglove Summer
Ben Aaronovitch
Daw, Jan 6 2015, $7.99
ISBN: 9780756409661
In the rural village of Rushpool, North Hertfordshire, two BFF
eleven years old girls (Nicole Lacey and Hannah Marstowe) from different
families vanish. As the national media
picks up the news about the missing tweeners, the local police conduct a search
that leads to finding the children’s phones in a local war memorial.
London constable Peter Grant becomes involved when his wizard
mentor Nightingale sends him to check on whether retired Hugh Oswald is
involved with the snatch. After
reporting to Nightingale that apparently no “Falcon” wizardry is involved;
Peter offers to help DCI David Windrow on the Operation Manticore missing girls’
investigation. David assigns him as the
second Family Liaison Officer to Hannah’s kin.
However, as he wishes he was back in his big city environs Peter soon
believes something very dark engulfs the area.
The fifth Rivers of London
police procedural fantasy (see Broken Homes, Midnight Riot, Moon Over Soho and
Whispers Under Ground) is a pleasant entry as the hero feels out of place
rusticating in a small village surrounded by menacing woods. The intelligent investigation anchors the exhilarating
storyline (especially the interwoven fantasy elements), but fails to move the
overarching Faceless Man theme. Still this is an electrifying Peter Grant wizardry
mystery.
Harriet Klausner
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