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Moon over Soho
- Rivers of London, Book 2
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Humour and mystery are an unlikely coupling, but in Moon over Soho, book 2 of the Sunday Times best-selling PC Peter Grant series, written by talented author Ben Aaronovitch, fans are brought to tears with the hilarious endeavors of PC Peter Grant - Police Constable and wizard apprentice. This is a modern detective audiobook unlike any other and brilliantly narrated by English actor Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. PC Grant has embarked on a thrilling battle against the monsters and supernatural dangers that lurk in the shadows around London. Available now from Audible.
Summary
I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that's how I know my Argo from my Tempo. And it's why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing. Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint like a wax cylinder recording. Cyrus Wilkinson, part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant, had apparently dropped dead of a heart attack just after finishing a gig in a Soho jazz club. He wasn't the first.
No one was going to let me exhume corpses to see if they were playing my tune, so it was back to old-fashioned legwork, starting in Soho, the heart of the scene. I didn't trust the lovely Simone, Cyrus' ex-lover, professional jazz kitten and as inviting as a Rubens portrait, but I needed her help: there were monsters stalking Soho, creatures feeding off that special gift that separates the great musician from someone who can raise a decent tune. What they take is beauty. What they leave behind is sickness, failure and broken lives.
And as I hunted them, my investigation got tangled up in another story: a brilliant trumpet player, Richard 'Lord' Grant - my father - who managed to destroy his own career, twice. That's the thing about policing: most of the time you're doing it to maintain public order. Occasionally you're doing it for justice. And maybe once in a career, you're doing it for revenge.
Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.
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- Ms
- 05-01-12
Magic police action with great characters and plot
I listened to this first, and you don't need to have heard Rivers of London to be gripped by the story and characters right from the get-go.
This is magical realism at its best - applied to the existing, understandable and exciting form of the detective thriller. Peter Grant is an exciting, fully-fleshed-out character with a great voice that's wonderfully portrayed by the actor Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, whose range and reading is masterful. The tale has plenty of twists and turns, so won't disappoint plot-fiends like myself, but the characters are just as enthralling. Can't wait for the next one.
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- Mr. R. Moseley
- 27-02-19
Brilliant
Fantastic series of books, skillfully narrated by Kobna Holdrook-Smith.
Certainly the best series of book I've heard in a very long time. Well researched and fun to listen too. I would urge you to listen to the series in order
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- James Coffey
- 25-12-12
Interesting, funny and disturbing at the same time
Brilliantly narrated story that holds your interest all the way through. Great mix of humour, detective story, magic, and horror.
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- Michael Merriman
- 11-12-18
Another excellent audio book!
Brilliant and over too quickly, can't wait for next month. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith does a brilliant job again of bringing to story to life and keeping the complex cast of characters distinct. I was gripped the whole way through, really loving these books.
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- Sjyan
- 19-02-19
Better than the first!
Continues to delight with his second book and a slight glimpse at London's Jazz scene
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- Paul Harding
- 15-09-18
superb!
Just love this series of books. I'll be buying the next one immediately! great story, even better delivery.
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- A J Durham
- 08-11-15
Dark, funny, creative and full of potential for the next book!
Murder drama meets magic brought into a contemporary London with a dark underbelly. Complex and gripping characters. Funny and human with some very non-human events!
Bought it to listen in the car but ended up listening whenever I could.
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- I F Jentle
- 14-08-12
This series just gets better and better
Having listened to "Rivers Of London", I was really looking forward to this sequel, and I wasn't dissapointed. Maybe I am a little biased because I live in London and am familiar with all the areas visited by the intrepid P.C. Peter Grant, and taake delight in the brilliant way Ben Aaronovitch depicts and plays upon the diverse nature of London's community. If I am, I really don't care. This series is excellent and I can't wait for the next book.
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- 08-05-18
Book 2 of the Rivers of London series.
As with the first book in this series I have thoroughly enjoyed every second. It’s unlike anything else I’ve read, and it makes magic and the supernatural seem more realistic than anything JK Rowling or Tolkien wrote. The basing of the story in the Metropolitan Police makes it seem completely normal for a “copper” to do magic or chase down a supernatural suspect.
I love the very British humour that is sprinkled throughout the style of these books, dry and sarcastic- right in line with my own.
The narrator is also very good and I enjoy the accents and voices he gives to all the characters, so much so that you can almost visualise them from their “voices” (Nightingale = Professor Lupin?!) He is softly, yet clearly spoken and his voice is a nice one to hear rather than some narrators who can be very nasal or extremely monotonous in their narration.
I won’t give anything away for the story but if you liked the first book you won’t be disappointed in the continuing story here.
I can’t wait to get the next one!
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- Victoria Hulland
- 28-06-15
Another fab edition to the series.
What did you like most about Moon Over Soho?
The continuity from the first book. The fact that there is still more secrets to uncover about the magic and surreal world of London.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I certainly played it whenever I had a chance, my husband ended up resigned to hearing the story whether he wanted to or not.
Any additional comments?
I like that even though the book finished, I knew there was more to come. This book introduces what I presume is its ultimate villain and the main characters arch nemesis for future books.
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