Book Review: Ben Aaronovitch’s Lies Sleeping
Faced with the destruction of London, Detective Constable (and apprentice wizard) Peter Grant must come to terms with his traitorous ex-best friend Leslie May and the malevolent killer Mr Punch.
Faced with the destruction of London, Detective Constable (and apprentice wizard) Peter Grant must come to terms with his traitorous ex-best friend Leslie May and the malevolent killer Mr Punch.
When London is engulfed in riots and burning men, Arthur Bryant and John May, London’s most ingenious (and peculiar) detectives have to work fast to hold a sinister killer’s feet to the fire.
The widowed Lady Muir has no interest in marriage, content with her life, until she’s rescued by the dour Lord Trentham, who finds he cannot resist her manner, laughter, or face.
A collection of thirty-one short stories in fantasy, science fiction, and both that range throughout worlds, space, and history.
A vigilante group enables four murderers to escape, but it all goes wrong. It’s up to Walter Day and the rest of the Murder Squad to hunt them down, including Jack the Ripper.
Only Juan Cabrillo and his men stand between global havoc and Nine Unknown Men who corrupted a body of knowledge handed down for centuries, powerful enough to change the history of mankind.
With Sherlock Holmes dead, it falls to Nan Killian and Sarah Lyon-White with their friends John and Mary Watson to find the madman cutting the heads off young brides.
When a ransom exchange turns violent, Commander William Monk faces the unthinkable: betrayal by his own men.
Prudence’s return to England is fraught with the revelations she brings back to the scientists, Queen Victoria is definitely not amused, and her father is going crazy.
A cruel turn of events rips Josh Jameson’s and Princess Adeline’s worlds apart and Adeline is more bound than ever. Yet Josh refuses to lose the woman he loves.