The October Man (Rivers of London #7.5)
Tobias Winter has been assigned to the Abteilung KDA - the Department for Complex and Unspecific Matters. Despite the intriguing department name, as Winter explains, dealing with the strange and the supernatural is 'actually 90% paperwork'. But this is a story about the other 10% of the job: the...
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Tobias Winter has been assigned to the Abteilung KDA - the Department for Complex and Unspecific Matters.
Despite the intriguing department name, as Winter explains, dealing with the strange and the supernatural is 'actually 90% paperwork'. But this is a story about the other 10% of the job: the life-threatening danger part.
This is a tale about the Queen of the Harvest, the October Man, and the little-known time the vineyard around Trier started to eat people . . .
Winter may be P. C. Peter Grant's German counterpart, but surviving this investigation is entirely down to him . . .
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B07KT5WGYL
Publish date: 2019-06-13
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Series: Rivers of London (#7.5)
Although an interesting diversion in the Rivers of London series, this story suffers from the lack of any Peter Grant at all. I liked his German counterpart, but he just didn't have Peter's sass. Sam Peter Jackson's narration was excellent, but this might have been better for me in the text versi...
So about the time that the one German Magic Practitioner hears that Nightengale has taken on an apprentice in Peter Grant, she decides that it's time for Germany to do the same -- keeping the playing field level, and all -- she finds that apprentice in a second generation police officer, Tobias Wint...
"The October Man" is a fresh, fun novella that I hope is the start of a new series of German "Rivers" books. "The October Man" novella breathes new life into the "Rivers Of London" universe by taking us to Trier in Germany where Tobias Winter, broadly the counterpart of Peter Grant is investigatin...
Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my reviews or rating. So this was pretty cool. Instead of following Peter or Nightingale (why???) we follow another magic practitioner named Tobias Winter. Tobias is the equivalent to our Peter Grant in England, only Tobias opera...
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