A fun read in an interestingly created version of modern London. Peter Grant is a rookie London cop who happens to see a ghost shortly after a murder. Peter intercepts the ghost and interviews him. Needless to say he's reluctant to admit how he got information on the murderer, but he's also a bit of a smartass so when one fellow asks him who he was talking to he makes it sound like a joke and mouths off that he's interviewed a ghost. The fellow reacts far differently than Peter expected, and thus begins Peter's sudden apprenticeship to DCI Thomas Nightingale, a special sort of detective in a special branch of the Met, oh, and as a practitioner of magic.
Interesting characters, and the mystery has enough twists to surprise. And I loved the whole concept of 'The Rivers of London.' Too bad the US publisher didn't keep that name for the book.
I look forward to reading 'Moon Over Soho'.
(I won this book through a DelReySpectra contest) ( 
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