Wednesday, May 23, 2018

The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch

The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch --- 136 pages including an Interview with Ben Aaronovitch

A novella that fits between Foxglove Summer and The Hanging Tree in Aaronovitch's wonderful Rivers of London series combining fantasy, mystery and police procedural.

It's hardly surprising that a city of great antiquity like London would have more than its share of ghosts. Some of them even ride the Underground; but rarely do they interact with mortal commuters. So when the police start getting reports about aggressive specters confronting passengers on the Metropolitan Line, the authorities summon PC Peter Grant and his supervisor, Inspector Nightingale, of the Specialised Assessment Unit aka The Folly. With the assistance of Peter’s teenage cousin Abigail (spending the summer as an intern at The Folly to keep her out of trouble) and Jaget Kumar of the British Transport Police, they take to the trains hunting ghosts to try and get to the bottom of this mystery.

The problem though, is that their witnesses' memories of these encounters fade away within minutes. And the ghosts themselves, if they can be tracked down and confronted, disintegrate on the spot. But with sheer dogged persistence, eventually Peter pieces together enough clues to hypothesize what could be causing this behavior. And soon they have confirmation. A young woman has disappeared. If Perter's theory is right, her life is in imminent danger. If Peter is right, only he and Nightingale have the necessary skills to find and rescue her before it's too late.

Another suspenseful and comic adventure in urban fantasy.

Click HERE to read the review from Publisher's Weekly.

Click HERE to read the review from Locus Magazine.

Click HERE to read the review from the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviews blog/

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