Moon over Soho

Moon over Soho

Aaronovitch, Ben

Editorial Gollancz
Fecha de edición octubre 2011

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780575097629
384 páginas
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Resumen del libro

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.

Peter Grant is not just a lowly Detective Constable, he's also apprenticed to the last wizard in Britain: policing will never be the same again!

Biografía del autor

Ben Aaronovitch (1964) es un escritor y guionista británico de gran éxito entre el público, conocido por su trabajo en series como Jupiter Moon, Casualty o la célebre obra de culto de ciencia ficción Doctor Who. El árbol del ahorcado es la sexta entrega de la exitosa serie de fantasía urbana Ríos de Londres, best seller del Sunday Times; una deliciosa novela que mezcla a la perfección la narrativa policíaca y el thriller con la literatura fantástica en un Londres mágico, original y cautivador.





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