DAW
January 2015
On Sale: January 6, 2015
336 pages ISBN: 0756409667 EAN: 9780756409661 Paperback Add to Wish List
When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant is sent out of London to check that nothing supernatural is involved. ItΓ’β¬β’s purely routineΓ’β¬βNightingale, PeterΓ’β¬β’s superior, thinks heΓ’β¬β’ll be done in less than a day. But PeterΓ’β¬β’s never been one to walk away from someone in trouble, so when nothing overtly magical turns up he volunteers his services to the local police, who need all the help they can get. But because the universe likes a joke as much as the next sadistic megalomaniac, Peter soon comes to realize that dark secrets underlie the picturesque fields and villages of the countryside and there might just be work for BritainΓ’β¬β’s most junior wizard after all. Soon PeterΓ’β¬β’s in a vicious race against time, in a world where the boundaries between reality and fairy have never been less clear....
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