Whispers Underground

If you enjoy a good adventurous police procedural and don’t balk at the inclusion of spell casting policemen, wizardly evildoers, and the odd river god then you’ll enjoy Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant series.  Whispers Underground is actually the third in the series, though, so you might want to back up and start with Midnight Riot.  Aaronovitch creates an interesting world and then sets his police constable to work within it.  In this volume a dead American is found in a subway station.  Peter is called in because of the suspicion that something “spooky” is involved and, of course, it is.  He then proceeds to get to the bottom of things.

I quite like Aaronovitch’s series.  The books are full of action & interesting characters and the world described (barely different from our own) has a coherent structure.  Recommended for lovers of just left of the real world fantasy.