The October man - Ben Aaronovitch

Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany's oldest city. So when a man is found dead with, his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth.

Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.

Enter Investigator Tobias Winter, whose aim is to get in, deal with the problem, and get out with the minimum of fuss, personal danger and paperwork. With the help of frighteningly enthusiastic local cop, Vanessa Sommer, he's quick to link the first victim to a group of ordinary middle aged men - and to realise they may have accidentally reawakened a bloody conflict from a previous century. But the rot is still spreading, literally and with the suspect list extending to people born before Frederick the Great solving the case may mean unearthing the city's secret magical history.

. . .
so long as that history doesn't kill them first.

'The Rivers of London series is an ever-evolving delight' CRIME REVIEW
'Ben Aaronovitch is a master of metropolitan magical mayhem' STARBURST
'Aaronovitch deftly balances urban fantasy with the police procedural' CRIME SCENE
'Once you start, you'll find a London that's just dying to be explored' DEN OF GEEK

Before becoming a bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch was a screenwriter for Doctor Who and a bookseller at Waterstones. He now writes full time, and every book in his Rivers of London series has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. He is published in 14 languages and has sold more than 2 million copies around the world. Aaronovitch is also a trustee on the board of Cityread London and is a long-time supporter of Nigeria's premiere arts and cultural festival, The Ak Festival. He still lives in London, the city he likes to refer to as 'the capital of the world'.

Peter Grant is back, and now in handy-to-read-on-the-train novella format.
STARBURST

The October Man is a must for any fan of the series.
STARBURST MAGAZINE

Aaronovitch is well on his way to becoming this country's standout voice of urban fantasy
The Sun

The Rivers of London series is an ever-evolving delight.
CRIME REVIEW

The Hanging Tree is definitely one of the best in the Grant/Aaronovitch pantheon. There again, so have most of the previous books in the series and the odds are the next one probably will be too.
The Bookbag

Aaronovitch deftly balances urban fantasy with the police procedural. As for Grant, he's a wonderful blend of laconic copper and, methodically researching how magic works, full-on nerd.
Crime Scene

This series is brilliant!
Teen Librarian