- Title:
- Broken Homes (Peter Grant, #4)
- By:
- Ben Aaronovitch
- Pages:
- 324
- Rating:
- 5
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, Aaronovitch’s series has swiftly added Grant’s magical London to Rebus’ Edinburgh and Morse’s Oxford as a destination of choice for those who love their crime with something a little extra.
This was brilliant. The story was as good as any of the others, but of particular and exquisite delectation was the ending. Books that go on to this sort of number in a series do tend to get formulaic, and so this sort of knife-in-the-guts twist at the end really keeps things ticking over freshly.