He wasn’t the first, but no one was going to let me exhume corpses just to see if they were playing my tune. The former owner of the body, Cyrus Wilkinson, was a part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant who had dropped dead of a heart attack just after finishing a gig. And that’s why, when Dr Walid called me down to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognized the tune it was playing as the jazz classic ‘Body and Soul.’ Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint on his corpse as if it were a wax cylinder recording. When your dad is an almost famous jazz trumpeter, you know the classics. I’m also an apprentice wizard, the first in fifty years. My name is Peter Grant, and I’m a Police Constable in that mighty army for justice known as the Metropolitan Police (a.k.a. The humor, the world-building, the action, the magic, the mystery, the procedural-all are top-notch.’ - Ranting Dragon ‘ Moon Over Soho cements series as my favorite urban fantasy series.
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