The October Man

Here the Rivers of London universe Expands to Germany where we meet Tobias Winter once more, previously in Moment Three: Tobias Winter – Meckenheim 2012 (Tales from the Folly).

in this we learn what has happened to the German magic tradition and knowledge after the war, find mor Genuis Loci, explore German history further back than the wars and continue with an excellent magic police procedural.

Rivers are returning and making strange familial relationships between daughter/mother/daughter??? There are more revelations about The Black Library, Ettersburg, Nightingale in the war, and the Nazis. There’s a feeling that this world will keep on expanding but will eventually all fold back into that devastating event.

Wine, revelry, worship, love, and murder all make for a really fast-paced and interesting novella once more.

We also get introduced to a new apprentice in the form of Vanessa Summer (strange little town she comes from…) as the “Agreements” seen to have broken down and magic is on the increase.

Only two more books, a few short stories, and four graphic novels until I’ve finished this Riverathon and waiting for the next book in the series.