A review by nigellicus
Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch

adventurous funny mysterious tense

5.0

A great big police operation is underway to finally get the Faceless Man (mk 2), Martin Chorley, and since I listen to rather than read these, I'm slightly shocked that Chorley is spelled the way it is, I had convinced myself it must be something like Chondewembulderley or something. The usual magical policing interrupted by magic-police action set-pieces in assorted London locations, including a big cross-history fracas in some sort of dream-space, ensue. These books tend to stay grounded mostly at plod level, however magical, but it does like to nod to the epic when it gets the chance. Holdbrook-Smith's reading is, as usual, superb.