BOOKS – Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

Peter Grant is the son of a neat-freak, Sierra Leone mother and a junkie jazz-playing dad and he didn’t pass all his A levels. In fact, on paper he’s not much of a cop either. Not like his friend Lesley who’s on the fast track for DCI in homicide and has her copper instincts honed to a sharp point. But that’s ok. Unlike Lesley, Peter can see ghosts and he’s a nice guy. Or so he discovers one cold, wet evening on the job. This saves him from a clerk assignment and lands him instead in a secret branch of the Met with all of two officers – Peter included – that deals with magic and the supernatural.