A review by nigellicus
Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

adventurous funny mysterious tense

5.0

Yeeah, now I can see why these books caught on. Likeable lead, great supporting cast, and every book is a trip into some new part of London that may or may not exist. In this case, as the title suggests, it's underground, after the discovery of a murdered American art student under Baker Street leads Peter and Co, including a persistent FI agent he has to vainly try to conceal his magic spells from, down to the sewers and tunnels, smelly and wet and getting wetter thanks to meltwater from a city-paralysing snowfall. The narration is fabulous, top-tier, full marks for naiing the South Dublin accent, even narrators who manage decent Irish accents rarely bother with regional variations unless the character is from Ulster