Ben Aaronovitch

Peter Grant, having become the first English apprentice wizard in fifty years, must immediately deal with two different but ultimately inter-related cases. In one he must find what is possessing ordinary people and turning them into vicious killers, and in the second he must broker a peace between the two warring gods of the River Thames.

This is miles better than Aaronovitch's last novella set in America and he did two things that really helped sell the setting: he set it in the 1920s and made the narrator British, so any errors can be chalked up to changing times and/or a non-American narrator.

And what a narrator! Augustus Berrycloth-Young sounds like he's stepped out of a Wodehouse story and just makes the entire book sparkle. I hope we get to see more of Gussie and his adventures.

Received via NetGalley.

Prequel novella to the Peter Grant series, set in 1920s New York. A young Thomas Nightingale is a major character. The narrator has a Bertie Wooster affect and voice, and a love for jazz and drag.

Slight and nonessential, but enjoyable enough.