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Fantasy.
Fiction.
Mystery.
There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless specters whose presence does little more than give a frisson to traveling and boost tourism. But now there's a rash of sightings on the Metropolitan Line and these ghosts are frightening, aggressive, and seem to be looking for something. Enter PC Peter Grant, junior member of the Metropolitan Police's Special Assessment Unit, AKA The Folly, AKA the only police officers whose official duties include ghost hunting. Together with Jaget Kumar, his counterpart at the British Transport Police, he must brave the terrifying crush of London's rush hour to find the source of the ghosts. Joined by Peter's wannabe wizard cousin, a preschool river god, and Toby the ghost hunting dog, their investigation takes a darker tone as they realize that a real person's life might just be on the line. And time is running out to save them.… (más)
This novella is part of Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series. It's set sometime after Foxglove Summer and the previous novella What Abigail Did That Summer, and it features an investigation into sightings of ghosts on London commuter trains.
Honestly, this is another series that I always sort of want to like more than I actually do. I find its blend of urban fantasy and police procedural interesting, but the police procedural parts turn out to generally be less interesting to me in practice than in theory. I did really like the supernatural elements in this one, though, even if the plot (unsurprisingly, considering the length) is very slight. ( )
An entertaining but brief ghost story with Peter Grant and Nightingale investigating a set of mysterious ghost sightings on the Metro. A new river is introduced, Chess,who is being raised by an oblivious elderly couple.
Passangers on the Metropolitan line have been encountering ghosts but forgetting the encounters almost immediately afterwards. When Peter Grant starts to investigate, the trail takes him to Chesham and to the site of an old vicarage. ( )
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Mystery.
There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless specters whose presence does little more than give a frisson to traveling and boost tourism. But now there's a rash of sightings on the Metropolitan Line and these ghosts are frightening, aggressive, and seem to be looking for something. Enter PC Peter Grant, junior member of the Metropolitan Police's Special Assessment Unit, AKA The Folly, AKA the only police officers whose official duties include ghost hunting. Together with Jaget Kumar, his counterpart at the British Transport Police, he must brave the terrifying crush of London's rush hour to find the source of the ghosts. Joined by Peter's wannabe wizard cousin, a preschool river god, and Toby the ghost hunting dog, their investigation takes a darker tone as they realize that a real person's life might just be on the line. And time is running out to save them.
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Honestly, this is another series that I always sort of want to like more than I actually do. I find its blend of urban fantasy and police procedural interesting, but the police procedural parts turn out to generally be less interesting to me in practice than in theory. I did really like the supernatural elements in this one, though, even if the plot (unsurprisingly, considering the length) is very slight. (