The October Man: A Rivers of London Novella
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Description
Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany's oldest city. So when a man is found dead with, his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth.
Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.
Enter Investigator Tobias Winter, whose aim is to get in, deal with the problem, and get out with the minimum of fuss, personal danger and paperwork. With the help of frighteningly enthusiastic local cop, Vanessa Sommer, he's quick to link the first victim to a group of ordinary middle aged men - and to realise they may have accidentally reawakened a bloody conflict from a previous century. But the rot is still spreading, literally and with the suspect list extending to people born before Frederick the Great solving the case may mean unearthing the city's secret magical history.
. . . so long as that history doesn't kill them first.
'The Rivers of London series is an ever-evolving delight' CRIME REVIEW
'Ben Aaronovitch is a master of metropolitan magical mayhem' STARBURST
'Aaronovitch deftly balances urban fantasy with the police procedural'CRIME SCENE
'Once you start, you'll find a London that's just dying to be explored' DEN OF GEEK
Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.
Enter Investigator Tobias Winter, whose aim is to get in, deal with the problem, and get out with the minimum of fuss, personal danger and paperwork. With the help of frighteningly enthusiastic local cop, Vanessa Sommer, he's quick to link the first victim to a group of ordinary middle aged men - and to realise they may have accidentally reawakened a bloody conflict from a previous century. But the rot is still spreading, literally and with the suspect list extending to people born before Frederick the Great solving the case may mean unearthing the city's secret magical history.
. . . so long as that history doesn't kill them first.
'The Rivers of London series is an ever-evolving delight' CRIME REVIEW
'Ben Aaronovitch is a master of metropolitan magical mayhem' STARBURST
'Aaronovitch deftly balances urban fantasy with the police procedural'CRIME SCENE
'Once you start, you'll find a London that's just dying to be explored' DEN OF GEEK
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Format
Hardback
Pages
192
Price
23.87 €
Posts
4
Besser als die andere Kurzgeschichte die ich gelesen habe, und man kann sie losgelöst von der Reihenfolge lesen, da wir hier einen Abstecher nach Deutschland machen. Ich habe ein bisschen was über Weinanbau gelernt. Aber vor allem war es ein unaufgeregter Zwischendurch-Read, um den Kopf auszuschalten.
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I'm trying to ease my way back into this series because of how the last full novel I read (no. 7) ended. This wasn't a bad point of re-entry, I think. The many German words in an English text were a bit of a weird experience, especially when you add on how they'd sound in the ascribed regional dialects. The most disappointing thing was that, if somebody had erased the biographical information from the text and handed it to me, I wouldn't have noticed this wasn't Peter Grant but Tobias Winter investigating.
Description
Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany's oldest city. So when a man is found dead with, his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth.
Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.
Enter Investigator Tobias Winter, whose aim is to get in, deal with the problem, and get out with the minimum of fuss, personal danger and paperwork. With the help of frighteningly enthusiastic local cop, Vanessa Sommer, he's quick to link the first victim to a group of ordinary middle aged men - and to realise they may have accidentally reawakened a bloody conflict from a previous century. But the rot is still spreading, literally and with the suspect list extending to people born before Frederick the Great solving the case may mean unearthing the city's secret magical history.
. . . so long as that history doesn't kill them first.
'The Rivers of London series is an ever-evolving delight' CRIME REVIEW
'Ben Aaronovitch is a master of metropolitan magical mayhem' STARBURST
'Aaronovitch deftly balances urban fantasy with the police procedural'CRIME SCENE
'Once you start, you'll find a London that's just dying to be explored' DEN OF GEEK
Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.
Enter Investigator Tobias Winter, whose aim is to get in, deal with the problem, and get out with the minimum of fuss, personal danger and paperwork. With the help of frighteningly enthusiastic local cop, Vanessa Sommer, he's quick to link the first victim to a group of ordinary middle aged men - and to realise they may have accidentally reawakened a bloody conflict from a previous century. But the rot is still spreading, literally and with the suspect list extending to people born before Frederick the Great solving the case may mean unearthing the city's secret magical history.
. . . so long as that history doesn't kill them first.
'The Rivers of London series is an ever-evolving delight' CRIME REVIEW
'Ben Aaronovitch is a master of metropolitan magical mayhem' STARBURST
'Aaronovitch deftly balances urban fantasy with the police procedural'CRIME SCENE
'Once you start, you'll find a London that's just dying to be explored' DEN OF GEEK
Book Information
Main Genre
N/A
Sub Genre
N/A
Format
Hardback
Pages
192
Price
23.87 €
Posts
4
Besser als die andere Kurzgeschichte die ich gelesen habe, und man kann sie losgelöst von der Reihenfolge lesen, da wir hier einen Abstecher nach Deutschland machen. Ich habe ein bisschen was über Weinanbau gelernt. Aber vor allem war es ein unaufgeregter Zwischendurch-Read, um den Kopf auszuschalten.
3