L'agent Peter Grant ne croyait pas aux fantômes, jusqu'au jour ou un étrange personnage lui affirme avoir assisté au meurtre sur lequel il enquete. Un témoin providentiel... s'il n'était mort depuis plus d'un siecle ! Et Peter n'est pas au bout de ses surprises : recruté par l'inspecteur Nightingale, il integre l'unité de la police londonienne chargée des affaires surnaturelles. Au programme, traquer vampires. sorcieres et autres créatures de la nuit ; maintenir la paix entre les forces occultes de Londres ; tenir a distance les divinités trop entreprenantes ; et bien sur apprendre le latin, le grec ancien et une montagne d'incantations bizarres et pour le moins rébarbatives. Peter doit en passer par la, s'il veut un jour devenir a son tour le dernier sorcier de Londres...
Peter Grant Séries
La série suit le jeune policier Peter Grant alors qu'il découvre qu'il a la capacité de communiquer avec des fantômes et des êtres surnaturels. Avec le détective surnaturel Nightingale, il travaille à résoudre des affaires qui vont au-delà des enquêtes policières ordinaires. Les livres mélangent des éléments de fiction policière, de fantasy et de culture britannique. Peter devient progressivement partie intégrante d'un monde secret de magie et de mystère.
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Moon over Soho
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
The song. That’s what apprentice wizard and London Metropolitan Police Constable Peter Grant first notices when summoned to the local morgue to view the corpse of Cyrus Wilkinson, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho’s 606 Club. He, along with Scottish pathologist Dr. Abdul Haqq Walid, hears the distinct notes of an old jazz standard emanating from the body—a sure sign that something about the man’s death was not as normal as it might first have seemed, since only something supernatural leaves such an imprint.Body and Soul. They’re also what Peter will risk, as he investigates a pattern of similar deaths in and around Soho. With the help of his superior officer, Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, the last practicing Newtonian wizard in England, and the questionable assistance of voluptuous but old-fashioned jazz groupie Simone Fitzwilliam, Peter will uncover a deadly magical menace—one that leads right to his own doorstep, with an unexpected connection to the squandered promise of a young jazz musician: a talented trumpet player named Richard "Lord" Grant—otherwise known as Peter’s dear old dad.
To solve a perplexing murder case, Peter Grant, London constable and sorcerer's apprentice, must plumb the haunted depths of the oldest, largest, and deadliest subway system in the world.
DC Peter Grant must head south of the river to the alien environs of Elephant and Castle. There's a murderer abroad and, as always when Grant's department are reluctantly called in by CID, there is more than a whiff of the supernatural in the darkness.
The fifth of the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling series sees PC Grant looking for missing children. And missing London.
The Hanging Tree
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly, even when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the most expensive apartment blocks in London. But Lady Ty's daughter was there, and Peter owes Lady Ty a favour. Plunged into the alien world of the super-rich, where the basements are bigger than the house and dangerous, arcane items are bought and sold on the open market, a sensible young copper would keep his head down and his nose clean. But this is Peter Grant we're talking about. He's been given an unparalleled opportunity to alienate old friends and create new enemies at the point where the world of magic and that of privilege intersect. Assuming he survives the week . . .
The seventh PC Grant mystery is here, continuing bestselling series of London adventures. That's the way to do it . . .
False Value
- 432pages
- 16 heures de lecture
Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Leaving his old police life behind, he takes a job with Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's new London start up: the Serious Cybernetics Corporation.Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous 'silicon roundabout', Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is. Compared to his last job, Peter thinks it should be a doddle. But magic is not finished with the Met's first trainee wizard in fifty years.Because a secret is hiding somewhere in the building. A technology that stretches back to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, and forward to the future of artificial intelligence. A secret that is just as magical as it technological - and twice as dangerous (...).[bookdepository.com].
The brand new novel in the Sunday Times #1 bestselling Rivers of London series!
Dans le même esprit
There's something going bump on the Metropolitan line and Sergeant Jaget Kumar knows exactly who to call. It's PC Peter Grant's speciality . . . Only it's more than going 'bump'. Traumatised travellers have been reporting strange encounters on their morning commute, with strangely dressed people trying to deliver an urgent message. Stranger still, despite calling the police themselves, within a few minutes the commuters have already forgotten the encounter - making the follow up interviews rather difficult. So with a little help from Abigail and Toby the ghost hunting dog, Peter and Jaget are heading out on a ghost hunting expedition. Because finding the ghost and deciphering their urgent message might just be a matter of life and death.
What Abigail Did That Summer
- 208pages
- 8 heures de lecture
A brand new stand-alone novella in the bestselling Rivers of London series!
Der Geist in der British Library und andere Geschichten aus dem Folly
Roman
- 220pages
- 8 heures de lecture
Neues aus London: Ein Muss für alle Peter-Grant-Fans! Stories aus dem ›Flüsse von London‹-Kosmos: Freuen Sie sich auf originelle, witzige, unheimliche Geschichten über Peter, Nightingale, Abigail, Agent Reynolds und Tobias Winter. Lesen Sie, wer (oder was) in einer einsamen Autobahnraststätte umgeht, wer immer noch auf den Regalen einer bekannten Londoner Buchhandlung herumspukt und was genau eigentlich mit dem Fluss Lugg passiert ist …
The October man
- 192pages
- 7 heures de lecture
Peter Grant still has a long way to go before he can become London's second fully-qualified wizard policeman Grant and Nightingale remain vigilant for signs of their nemesis, the Faceless Man, and his known associate, Lesley May, drove her to the wrong side of the criminal track when she sought to repair the damage
The Masquerades of Spring
- 165pages
- 6 heures de lecture
Join Augustus Berrycloth-Young in 1920s New York City as he navigates the Jazz Age. His life takes a turn when old friend Thomas Nightingale arrives with a mysterious saxophone affair, leading Gussie on a thrilling journey through jazz clubs and unexpected adventures. Perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams.
Die schlafenden Geister des Lake Superior
Eine Kimberley-Reynolds-Story | Der neue Kurzroman vom Meister der Urban Fantasy
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Gestatten: Kimberley Reynolds, FBI. Zuständig für Magie. Agentin Kimberley Reynolds arbeitet in einer Spezialabteilung des FBI, zuständig für seltsame, übernatürliche und schlichtweg okkulte Dinge. Nach dem rätselhaften Hilferuf ihres Exkollegen Henderson muss Reynolds abrupt nach Eloise, Wisconsin, reisen. Die Situation dort ist dramatisch: Ein Eistornado hat Stadtverwaltung und Polizeirevier in einen Trümmerhaufen verwandelt. Henderson ist spurlos verschwunden. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass er gewaltsam entführt wurde – von etwas, das kein Mensch war. Und unversehens hat Reynolds einen Fall am Hals, gegen den jede ›Akte X‹ wie ein Kinderspiel aussieht.
