The Awkward Squad – Sophie Hénaff

After a 6-month suspension from her role as an up-and-coming police officer after having fired “one bullet too many”, Anne Capestan is relieved to discover she still has a job to return to…

The Hanging Tree – Ben Aaronovitch

PC Peter Grant would be the first to tell you that being a member of The Folly – the department of the London police dedicated to investigating crimes of a magical nature – involves rather little glamour (and glamours) and much more hard graft and paperwork (and practising the fundamentals of spellwork).