(Though if this sounds like your thing, do go and read Rivers of London first.). Lies Sleeping doesn’t try to catch up new readers, which is quite right. Practical policing versus existential horror, to put in another way. Fear of the unknown keeps things in the margins, which provides a back-drop for the main characters struggles. There’s a good mix of ‘London practicality’ and ‘unimaginable terror’ here this isn’t a world where everyone can take the idea that magic is a real thing in their stride. This makes for solid development of the series after all the characters must progress at some point and it’s been a joy so far to watch them strive through every little set-back.Īaronovitch melds the magical and mundane extremely well. Even their cosy little base of operations, The Folly, has become a full-on operational centre, with everyday crime fighting professionals rubbing shoulders with the casual creepiness that lies in The Folly. His mentor, DCI Nightingale also feels much more powerful in both confidence and magical might. His magical abilities are accomplished and reliable. By book seven he’s made it to Detective and regularly taking swims in rivers. In the first book of the series, Peter Grant was a humble Police Constable, still wet around the ears.
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