"Nightingale's Lament", Simon Green
"There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands..."This is the third book in the Nightside series, and bloody brilliant it is too. The Nightside is a kind of London flipside, where it's always 3am and all manner of nasties are real (if anyone's familiar with Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, it's a lot like that. In fact probably sue-ably so). John Taylor is a detective with a real private eye - his third eye - that allows him to find things. Unfortunately, if he uses it too much his enemies can track him through it, so there's lots of legwork and good old-fashioned threats and violence.
Simon Green is one of my favourite authors, and these books read a lot like his Hawk and Fisher series - in fact various characters/Gods/demons pop up in both, a lot of Green's work has very loose boundaries between its worlds.
In this book there's a nightclub singer whose sad songs have been making her audience commit suicide, and John has to find out why. It's funny, it's macabre, it's occasionally downright disgusting. Only complaint, no Suzie Shooter in this one (character from the first two. People that know me can probably guess what she's like). Hopefully this series will run and run, and she'll return soon.
posted by Izzy @ 7:03 pm
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