A review by nigellicus
Quantum of Nightmares by Charles Stross

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense

5.0

A fake nanny kidnaps the superpowered children of a pair of superpowered cops, which turns out to be a spectacularly bad idea. This ties in with the fallout from the previous book, where the dead guy turns out to have laid a series of cunning traps for his murderer/succesor, while also pushing through the purchase of a high street Tesco-like mob in order to inflict gruesome fates on hapless low-level employees for the purposes of making sacrifices to his evil god. It's funny and fast moving, though some of the jokes get a flagged a bit too repeatedly in case anyone missed them, with lots of endearing characters and clever twists and nasty satirical ideas.