Moon over Soho
Rivers of London, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
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By:
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Ben Aaronovitch
About this listen
I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that's how I know my Argo from my Tempo. And it's why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing. Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint like a wax cylinder recording. Cyrus Wilkinson, part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant, had apparently dropped dead of a heart attack just after finishing a gig in a Soho jazz club. He wasn't the first.
No one was going to let me exhume corpses to see if they were playing my tune, so it was back to old-fashioned legwork, starting in Soho, the heart of the scene. I didn't trust the lovely Simone, Cyrus' ex-lover, professional jazz kitten and as inviting as a Rubens portrait, but I needed her help: there were monsters stalking Soho, creatures feeding off that special gift that separates the great musician from someone who can raise a decent tune. What they take is beauty. What they leave behind is sickness, failure and broken lives.
And as I hunted them, my investigation got tangled up in another story: a brilliant trumpet player, Richard 'Lord' Grant - my father - who managed to destroy his own career, twice. That's the thing about policing: most of the time you're doing it to maintain public order. Occasionally you're doing it for justice. And maybe once in a career, you're doing it for revenge.
Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.
©2011 Ben Aaronovitch (P)2011 Orion AudioEditorial reviews
Humour and mystery are an unlikely coupling, but in Moon over Soho, book 2 of the Sunday Times best-selling PC Peter Grant series, written by talented author Ben Aaronovitch, fans are brought to tears with the hilarious endeavors of PC Peter Grant - Police Constable and wizard apprentice. This is a modern detective audiobook unlike any other and brilliantly narrated by English actor Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. PC Grant has embarked on a thrilling battle against the monsters and supernatural dangers that lurk in the shadows around London. Available now from Audible.
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- Goonies
- 06-06-2016
Great second
Still wanted more of Lesley in this one ! Great performance ! Not so sold on the storyline but still a great read!
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- Brenda Ford
- 21-04-2020
Escape fiction - just the thing for maintaining physical distancing
The header says it all. Perfect for a lazy Sunday, or for putting off non essential tasks. Action packed, very slightly cynical, with some cleverly concealed social and philosophical insights. Surprisingly educational for those of us not born and raised in London.
Highly recommend.
Very well read and produced - five stars across the board.
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- Richard
- 26-07-2018
Kept me humming along
Evoked the scenes from the past with such detail and spookiness. Character portrayal was believable and tragic.
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- Lauren
- 06-05-2022
Loved it!
I started reading the physical book but struggle with time to dedicate to reading. Decided to give it a try here and loved it!
The story is fantastic and the narrator does an amazing job with voices and storytelling.
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- Erin
- 22-12-2016
amazing read
like harry potter grew up to be Sherlock Holmes. his voice is amazing. 10/10 I enjoyed every bit of this book.
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- Kai1
- 18-01-2017
Pazazz, this book has. And jazz. Pazazz and jazz.
Still slightly in love with Kobna Holdbrook-smiths voice, enough to want to devour this series. Devour also being a key theme of this books storyline. But that's spoilers!
Think I preferred this to the first one, still lighthearted but a little bit more fiction than youth-fiction this time.
If you listened to the first don't even mildly hesitate to get the second.
Just to let you know, I work for Audible, but the views expressed in this review are 100% my own.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-05-2022
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith FTW
I started to read RoL and gave up. I’m so glad I tried the Audible version. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith brought the story alive for me, so I could appreciate Aaronovitch’ excellent story-telling and delight in the flashes of brilliance in the language tropes.
And it was all KH-S. I’ve listened to the whole of the series now and he doesn’t miss a beat. He makes all the characters come alive, perfect pitch with dramatic tension, effortless delivery of the funny bits — and he makes the supernatural elements sound as reasonable and everyday as I assume Aaronovitch wanted them to come across.
I’ve already looked for his other Audible narrations . Too few. If Holdbrook-Smith ever contracts to read the Encyclopedia Britannica, the curriculum textbooks for inorganic chemistry or a how-to manual for indoor plumbing, sign me up 👍
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- Patricia Collins
- 16-11-2017
Just as good as the first
This second book in the series is just as good as the first. I'm thoroughly enjoying getting to know all the characters better, and the situations they get themselves into are unpredictable and amazing. The narrator is exceptionally talented. How he manages to keep up with all the accents involved is awesome.
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- Katrena
- 06-03-2018
Really entertaining
Apart from enjoying descriptions of my old stomping grounds this stories is clever, fun, dynamic and lifted up even further through excellent narration.
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- John Shoemark
- 08-02-2019
Another cracking tale
Loved this book. The story development and the main characters are excellent.
The reader is fabulous too.
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