Whispers Under Ground, Audio Book

Whispers Under Ground, Audio Book (2012) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Rivers of London)

My mum translated this in her head to “witchfinder,” which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.

this was a murder inquiry, and woe betide any officer who breaks the chain of evidence, for they will be sat down and have what went wrong with the O. J. Simpson murder trial explained to them at great length. With PowerPoint slides.

Seawoll dropped the mangled paper clip back into a little Perspex box, where it served, presumably, as an awful warning to the rest of the stationery.

Nightingale explained that they’d often found runic inscriptions on demon traps. The theory was that in the original Viking designs the runes were part of the enchantment.

“Like the Taoists?” I asked.

“Possibly,” he said. “Comparative thaumatology is a discipline still in its infancy.”

This was a familiar Nightingale joke—meaning that I was the only one currently interested in it.

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Rating: 9.5/10

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