While the investigation unfolds, an attraction blooms between Peter and Simone Fitzwilliam, the deceased Cyrus’s girlfriend, and their mutual infatuation grows consuming.
The vagina dentata case (featuring a killer with teeth in her vagina) from the previous book remains unsolved, but when a journalist/amateur practitioner of magic is killed in this same way, Peter is pulled in on the case. A dark haired, pale skinned woman seduces men only to bite off their sexual organs with her own. Meanwhile, two other murders with a very different MO take place. There appears to be some kind of supernatural being hunting down these talented men, and Peter is determined to find out why, how and who. Later he locates the rest of Cyrus’s band, and in this way he learns that Cyrus died shortly after a big gig.įurther investigation reveals that Cyrus isn’t the only jazz player to die immediately after a brilliant performance. At Cyrus’s house and in the vicinity of his address, Peter meets Simone Fitzwilliam, Cyrus’s girlfriend, as well as Melinda Abbott, Cyrus’s fiancée. The dead man is a saxophonist named Cyrus Wilkinson. Walid, the department’s coroner, about a body which may belong to a victim of supernatural foul play.Īt the morgue, Peter senses vestigia, the remnants of magic, emanating from the body in the form of the jazz tune Body and Soul. Soon after parting from Leslie, Peter gets a call from Dr. Leslie wants to know whether magic can “fix” her face, but Peter doesn’t think it can. Beverley Brook, another potential love interest of Peter’s, is still away from London, and the murder that took place at the end of the last book remains unsolved.Īs Moon Over Soho opens, Peter is visiting Leslie, who conceals her disfigured face beneath a hood, a scarf, and sunglasses. Due to the events that took place toward the end of Midnight Riot, Peter’s superior officer, wizard/Chief Inspector Nightingale, is very frail, and Leslie, a coworker on whom Peter had a crush, has been horribly scarred. Moon Over Soho begins a few months after Midnight Riot has ended. Therefore, readers who have not yet read Midnight Riot and who don’t want to read spoilers for that novel should read no further.
The two books are closely related so it’s impossible to review the second without revealing spoilers for the first. Moon Over Soho is the second book that follows Peter, and I’m pleased to say that like Midnight Riot, it was highly enjoyable. Peter is a new recruit in a secret (and very small) department of the London Metropolitan Police which investigates supernatural crimes. Back in March, I read and reviewed your terrific debut, Midnight Riot ( Rivers of London in the UK), an urban fantasy/police procedural narrated by an endearing London police constable named Peter Grant.
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