{"id":21359,"date":"2022-12-12T19:16:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T00:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=21359"},"modified":"2026-03-22T08:54:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:54:04","slug":"the-severed-streets-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21359","title":{"rendered":"The Severed Streets, Audio Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Severed Streets<\/a><\/em> (2015) Paul Cornell<\/a> narrated by Damian Lynch (Shadow Police)<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>Riots are breaking out across London. The police are voting on a walkout. And someone has just killed an important MP in a locked car in the middle of one of those riots.<\/p>\n

The DCI\u2019s expression grew even more nonplussed. \u2018Why are you interested in words like \u201cimpossible\u201d?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Quill had his explanation prepared. \u2018Following the Losley case, we\u2019ve been specializing in crimes with an occult element to the motive.\u2019 The look on Forrest\u2019s face suggested that Quill was barking up the right tree. \u2018We\u2019ve been given access to \u2026 advanced sensor \u2026 techniques, the details of which we can\u2019t go into. It gives us a bit of an edge.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018You jammy buggers. We could do with that technology for the riots.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re trying it out. Maybe other units will get it soon.\u2019 \u2019Cos you\u2019d really enjoy that<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quill, Ross, Costain, and Sefton are a unit of four, but no one outside of DS Lofthouse knows what they really are–and what they can see.<\/p>\n

\u2018Oh, right, I get it: you\u2019re the good cop.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Costain pointed to himself, looking surprised. \u2018Bad cop.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018Surreal cop,\u2019 said Sefton, also pointing to himself. <\/p>\n

\u2018Good cop,\u2019 admitted Quill. \u2018Relatively. Which is weird.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Ross just raised an eyebrow. <\/p>\n

Tunstall looked between them, unsure if they were taking the piss. Being interviewed by this unit, thought Quill, must sometimes seem like being interrogated by Monty Python\u2019s Flying Circus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As with London Falling<\/a><\/em>, this book is extremely dark with all the warnings for violence: violence, gore, self-harm, murder, grief. Pretty much all the trauma. <\/p>\n

Like Mike Carey’s Felix Castor series, it contains many elements of horror, but I don’t find it scary, and most of the horrifying elements are things humans do to one another and themselves. <\/p>\n

One of the things I find most fascinating about this series is that of all the characters, Sefton–the Black, gay, cop, is the least damaged and most normal of the lot. Which might be why he takes the lead on “the weird stuff”. <\/p>\n

Publisher: Audible Studios<\/p>\n

Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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