There’s a whole other side to the world of practitioners in England pre-WWII that we didn’t know about and that Nightingale hasn’t seen a reason to share with Peter before.
But Aaronovitch keeps building it out-and we get a good deal of it here. The Rivers of London series has a pretty well-developed world, and there’s a lot of room to play already. If everything else in this novel was a “bleh” (and it wasn’t), I’d consider this one a win only for the things I’m talking about in this section. So, you can’t help but look for the Inquisition to show up in the novel-it’s the how it shows up that’s clever and wholly within what you expect for the series.Īaronovitch doesn’t work Monty Python into this novel quite as thoroughly as he did with the Hitchhiker’s Guide references in False Value-but it’s there. With a title like that, if the words “Spanish Inquisition,” aren’t on the tip of your tongue, something’s wrong with you. I feel like I’ve spent a lot of words there to say very little, but it’s one of those setups, I’m not sure what else to do. In other words-everyone’s in for a pretty steep learning curve before this is all done. This case is likely the most International that the novels have recorded (although no one leaves the country-as helpful as that might have been) and involves history and magical disciplines that Nightingale and Postmartin can only speculate about. “Taste” is a poor word there, it’s more of an obsessive need to have their ring that invites Gollum comparisons (however they might be discouraged). They soon discover that this murder is actually the second in a string-there’s little to tie the two victims together at first glance, except a similar taste in platinum rings.
So, Peter and his trainee, join Guleed and Stephanopoulos in their investigation. The method of murder-and the damage to the more technical devices in the area make it clear that this is a magical murder. On an initial glance, it looks like it’s something that would belong to the Folly, but there’s an odd lack of vestigium-almost a suspicious lack. He brings along the newest trainee to the Folly’s Course in magical policing, just to familiarize police throughout the country with their methods. Peter’s called in for an initial assessment on an odd murder scene, just to make sure that there’s nothing magical about it.
Mystery/Detective Fiction/Crime Fiction/Thrillerīy Ben Aaronovitch DETAILS: Series: Rivers of London, #9.
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