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Author | Ben Aaronovitch |
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Language | English |
Series | Peter Grant |
Release number | 3rd in series |
Genre | Urban Fantasy |
Publisher | Gollancz |
Publication date | 21 June 2012 |
Pages | 432 pp |
ISBN | 978-0-575-09764-3 |
Preceded by | Moon Over Soho (2011) |
Followed by | Broken Homes (2013) |
Whispers Under Ground[1] is the third novel in the Peter Grant series by English author Ben Aaronovitch, published 2012 by Gollancz.[2]
Peter Grant of Metropolitan Police department in charge of magical crimes (AKA The Folly) is called in to assist in a murder investigation. The victim, an American student found stabbed to death at Baker Street station was killed with a pot shard, raising the suspicion the death may be Falcon (police code for 'Folly') related. It quickly emerges that there is not merely a supernatural component to the case but that a secret world lies beneath the streets of the 'mundane' (non-magical) metropolis, and that the supernatural semi-human subterranean inhabitants may be no more harmless than the entirely human population who are blissfully unaware of their existence.