I'd like to take this moment to plug the Peter Grant novels by Ben Aaronovitch; Midnight Riot, Moon Over Soho, and Whispers Underground.

Precis summary: british Police Constable is recruited into the secret branch of the Met in charge of investigating and solving crimes involving magic. At the moment, said branch consists of a 110-year old WWII veteran with well-hidden PTSD who has been aging backwards since 1975, his not-quite-human maid, and... well, that's it, really. The rest of the Met, those that know about them, view them with suspicion and disdain right up until the point they're needed.

Guest starring the Goddess of the River Thames (a well-spoken west african matriarch, actually), the Goddess of the River Tyburn (who is about as pleasant as you'd expect someone associated with Tyburn to be), jazz vampires (you heard me; jazz vampires), the Faceless Man, who is a very unpleasant man indeed, and the city of London.

It's tough out there for the last of the classically trained Newtonian wizards.

-Merc
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