#24 The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch

This is set in the same universe as the Peter Grant books but takes place in Germany and no one from the UK appears in the book. Both Peter and Nightingale get named checked during the story and are used to give a bit of background to the reader. This novella is a good jumping in point for someone that is new to the series. Tobias Winter is sent to Trier by his boss the Director to check out a suspicious death. After finding out that magic had a part to pay in the death he teams up with a local office, Vanessa Sommer. Tobias is confident in his magic but you don’t know just how long he has been a practitioner, but he does go into a bit of the history of magic during WWII with Vanessa to fill in some gaps from the previous books. A good mystery that sets up a splinter series that will be interesting to see weave back into London at some point.


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