Lies Sleeping by Ben AaronovitchMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
In this latest installment of the English police urban fantasy mystery series our hero Peter Grant is hot on the trail of his former colleague Lesley May and her co-conspirator Faceless Man II aka MArtin Chorley.
Dogged police work has led Peter and the rest of the police force in on the so-called Falcon-type incidents to follow up on all former members of the Oxford University Little Crocodiles society in the hope that one of the members might lead them to Martin Chorley. The book opens as Peter and Guleed are sitting outside the home of the latest Little Crocodile when all hell breaks out and one of the tall, thin high fae which Peter calls the Pale Ladies leaps out of the house after trying to kill the homeowner.
With a trail that leads all around the City of London (not to be confused with London, which is a much larger area) centered on St Paul's Cathedral and West Smithfield Peter investigates a series of random clues involving King Arthur, Excalibur, the origins of Punch and more information on the mysterious Molly this book is just as clever, funny and convoluted as the previous books. Sadly there isn't nearly enough of Peter's mother but otherwise this is just as sublime (and confusing) as ever.
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