A friendship torn apart is followed by tragedy when a young girl disappears. One, Larry Ott, never rises above suspicion while the other, Silas Jones, returns to yet another tragedy on the rise.
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library The Hanging Treeby Ben AaronovitchIt is part of the , series and is a detective mystery, urban fantasy in Paperback edition that was published by DAW Books on January 31, 2017 and has 292 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Midnight Riot, Moon Over Soho, Whispers Under Ground, Broken Homes, Foxglove Summer, “The Furthest Station”, Lies Sleeping, False Value, “What Abigail Did That Summer”Sixth in the PC Peter Grant urban fantasy-detective mystery series (a.k.a., the Rivers of London series) set in London and revolving around a magic division of the police, in particular one police constable learning the trade, the magic one. A character’s color or race never seem to impact me much, and it wasn’t until this story — the sixth!! — that it dawned on me that some might want to know — and revel — in a story in which a black man is the hero. So take it away, Police Constable Peter Grant… My […]
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