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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.
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- Bob Unsworth
- 26-12-11
Moon Over Soho
An excellent and very visual narration...but I wish somewhere on the description it had said this is the second in a sequence of stories that way I'd have started with Rivers of London and then come to this story...both are excellent but an assumption is made that you are up to speed on the characters by the time you arrive in Soho.
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- MR
- 25-08-11
5 stars does not do it justice.
Following on from Rivers of London this book picks up nice where the 1st ended.
The book itself would be a 4 1/2 stars but when combined with the narration of Kobna Holdbrook-Smith it becomes 10 stars (I realises this does not exist). Basically try the first book which is equally as good and I can guarantee you will be back here for more. As another rviewer said I wish I had of waited as I am now greedy for the 3rd installment.
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- National Hunter
- 22-03-14
fabulous author, fabulous narrator, what more...
...can I say...oh yeah, fabulous story, great characters based on a researched plot, very very good indeed...read all 4 in about 10 days...
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- Maree Diamond
- 10-02-19
Another belter
I love these books, they are different and have a dark humour to them with a great story, excellently narrated
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- Ginny H
- 05-11-16
It's best never to accept a biscuit.
This series would be worth every listening minute without narrator Kobna Holbrook-Smith. He makes it unmissable, authentic. Two books in, I want to lie on a London roof garden and let Peter Grant tell me what happened next.
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- Leslie Frith
- 25-02-17
Great second book
Picks up right where the first book left you and drops a a great cliff hanger at the end !!
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- Mark J Estcourt
- 14-02-17
loving these books
I didn't know but I started with the last book but now I am listening to them in order I can't leave them alone.
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- clivep
- 24-01-17
I'm going again
I'm just about to download the next in the series which says it all really.
I never read mystic or science fiction but as a recently retired London detective I was persuaded by someone to start this series. Very accurate procedure wise and fabulously read. Enough of the real history mixed in to keep it grounded
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- Sarah Jay Hepburn
- 29-04-16
great read
loved it and all the books that follow. love the narrater reallt bring the story to life
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- A. Crean
- 26-06-15
Great follow on
Great part two in the series. Bought all five and would only advise listening in sequence
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