A lot.īy contrast, I got to enjoy his improving relationship with DS Miriam Stephanopoulos (although: apparently it’s still necessary to make butch lesbian jokes. I don’t expect Peter to be a monk, but he gets into bed with a woman who in any standard murder mystery would by rights be a suspect (not to mention nothing about her adds up he’s completely blinded by lust) – and it bothered me. I’ll freely admit it: I spent large amounts of Moon Over Soho shouting PETER NO and WHAT WOULD LESLEY MAY SAY. Part of my problem here is that I can never tell how much is tongue in cheek, and how much of it is geek boy wish fulfilment. With nobody around to tell him when he’s doing something stupid (and certainly not in the police handbook), it also sees Peter embroiled in an affair with the supposedly distraught mistress of one of the victims. Peter’s dad being none other than the famous Richard “Lord” Grant himself, this one is close to home – and, delightfully, means we get to dig a little deeper into Peter’s relationship with his family. But Peter has only the very best reasons for stealing an ambulance and crashing it into the Thames, you understand).Īll good police procedurals needing more than one case to keep them going, Peter soon finds himself drawn into a second mystery: the unexpected but apparently natural deaths of otherwise healthy jazz musicians. What can go wrong? (Yes, yes, all the things. Being a sensible man – yes, I’m being generous – he enlists the help of Ash Thames, who is having far more fun in London’s clubs than your average hostage. But there’s a Pale Lady stalking the streets of London and now he’s sure it’s not Molly (honestly, that scene at the end of Rivers of London still makes me giggle), he needs to put a stop to her assaults – however well-earned they may be. The story picks up shortly after Rivers of London / Midnight Riot, with Peter Grant effectively working solo as Nightingale is still in the hospital recovering from his gunshot wound and Lesley is enduring a series of surgeries to try and repair her facial injuries.Īs a freshly-minted apprentice with a reputation for causing large amounts of property damage, Peter has a few constraints to observe. I had a vague memory of Moon Over Soho, but it’s been long enough since I read this that it was as good as coming to it for the first time (not least because that vague memory proved entirely false).
But with both Lesley May and Thomas Nightingale on medical leave and corpses stacking up across Soho, how much trouble can Peter get into? ALL THE TROUBLE. Credentials established, PC Peter Grant is settling into life in the Met’s supernatural policing division.
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