The October Man - Ben Aaronovitch

• Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• 180 pages
• Fiction: Fantasy, Crime, Mystery
• Book 7.5/9 in the Rivers of London series

Trier is famous for wine, Romans and being Germany's oldest city.

When a body is found, covered in a fungal rot, the local police know they're out of their depth. Fortunately, this is Germany: where there are procedures for everything.

Enter Investigator Tobias Winter. With the help of local cop Vanessa Sommer, he links the victim to a group of ordinary middle-aged men - who may have accidentally reawakened a bloody conflict from a previous century.

But the rot is spreading, and with the suspect list extending to people born before Frederick the great, solving the case may mean unearthing the city's secret - and magical - history.

... so long as that history doesn't kill them first.