Ben Aaronovitch\'s bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series - The perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter .
Is there a connection? And if there is, why oh why did it have to be South of the River--in the jurisdiction of some pretty prickly local river spirits?.
But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening on a housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans, and inhabited by the truly desperate.
So far, so London.
Before apprentice wizard and Police Constable Peter Grant can even get his head \'round the case, two more are dropped in his lap: a town planner has gone under a tube train, and there\'s a stolen grimoire for Grant to track down.
Or maybe just a garden-variety serial killer.
The prime suspect is one Robert Weil, possibly an associate of the twisted wizard known as the Faceless Man.
A killer on the loose. --io9 A mutilated body in Crawley.
Ben Aaronovitch\'s bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series - The perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter