The Furthest Station – Ben Aaronovitch

"Jaget said he'd been watching this documentary on TV about the way people learn to track animals." Set between Foxglove Summer and The Hanging Tree, The Furthest Station picks up with PC Peter Grant well into his training as a... well, magician is probably not a word he'd enjoy. Practitioner? Either way, this isn't really a …

Foxglove Summer – Ben Aaronovitch

"I was just passing the Hoover Centre when I heard Mr Punch scream his rage behind me." Following on from a bit of a shock at the end of the previous book, Broken Homes, Foxglove Summer feels like a bit of a deep breath and attempt at a fresh start for Peter - or at the very least, …

Broken Homes – Ben Aaronovitch

"At twenty-three minutes past eleven Robert Weil drove his 53 registered Volvo V70 across the bridge that links Pease Pottage, the improbably named English village, with Pease Pottage, the motorway service station." Despite finding the previous installment - Whispers Under Ground - a little disappointing in terms of the overall series, it did leave me keen …

Whispers Under Ground – Ben Aaronovitch

"Back in the summer I'd made the mistake of telling my mum what I did for a living." What could be more London than the underground? Ben Aaronovitch picks up those myths surrounding the oldest railway tunnels, and hands them to cop turned trainee magician, Peter Grant. Starting with a body on the tracks, of …

Rivers of London – Ben Aaronovitch

"It started at one thirty on a cold Tuesday morning in January when Martin Turner, street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo, tripped over a body in front of the West Portico of St Paul's at Covent Garden." I think it's fair to say I'm always on the hunt for a 'new Dresden Files', …

A City Dreaming – Daniel Polansky

"It would help if you did not think of it as magic." A City Dreaming is less a novel and more a collection of vignettes centred around our 'hero', known only as 'M'. M is, in his own words, "in with the management" which very loosely translates as 'wizard'. Not that he goes around performing …

Now You See Me 2 (2016)

What does a group of magicians do after pulling of some of the most successful illusions of all time, fooling the FBI, the nay-sayers, and serving up justice to the crooks? A year has passed, and the Four Horsemen are still in hiding, growing increasingly restless. So when the chance to out another huge conman with …