Williams is taken to the hospital, but Peter manages to discover, among his papers, site reports belonging to the Museum of London Archeology (MOLA) and a brief part of a screenplay Williams wrote with two others, which begins with a scene set in the ruins of Roman London–enough to set Peter’s spidey sense abuzz.įollowing up at MOLA reveals that soil has been stolen from several archeological sites, and when Guleed interviews the injured man’s wife, the latter relates that he made frequent trips to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Nightingale and Carey foil her in part, but Williams is severely injured and when Peter and Guleed attempt to apprehend the nanny, she ripples like a snake and gets away. Unfortunately for the London police, the family’s nanny transforms into something with sharp teeth and attempts to kill Williams before Nightingale and Carey can conduct the interview. Nevertheless, the Faceless Man is elusive, and Peter and Guleed stake out the residence of one Richard Williams, a possible associate of his, to be sure Williams doesn’t get away while their mentor in all things magic, Nightingale, and their co-worker, David Carey, question him. Peter, our loveable hero, and his second partner, Sahra Guleed, are no longer constables but “bona fide detectives with the PIP2 qualifications to prove it.” And they are part of Operation Jennifer, which involves a number of police officers and information analysts, all hot on their target’s figurative tail. Lies Sleeping, book seven in the series, finds the hunt for the Faceless Man and his cohort, Peter’s erstwhile partner, Lesley May, intensifying. The last book in your urban fantasy Rivers of London series saw some big developments, including the unmasking of police constable Peter Grant’s nemesis, the wizard known as the Faceless Man.

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