I just discovered this series which has been around for more than a decade. I will definitely be reading more of them. It all begins when a man trips over a headless body in front of a church in London's Covent Garden. Probationary police officer Peter Grant takes a witness statement from what turns out to be a ghost. Soon Grant has been assigned to work with Chief Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in Britain. Grant becomes Nightingale's apprentice wizard and has to deal with more ghosts, vampires, the warring God and Goddess of the River Thames and an assortment of supernatural events and creatures which lead to a riot at the the opera house at Covent Garden. After Nightingale is injured and Grant's fellow officer/girlfriend is possessed it falls on the apprentice wizard to track down and eliminate the cause. The plot is great, the characters are interesting, and the action is fast moving. I listened to the audiobook and the narrator, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, does a great job. During the heavy action he even reads it in a breathless way which adds much to the story.
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