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Felix 'Fix' Castor exorcises ghosts. Or he did until about a year and a half ago when something went terribly wrong, and a demon took over the body of a close friend. Now he does magic tricks at children's birthday parties, while living in the attic of the house of a friend. His landlady Pen Bruckner, who is also a friend, gets him a gig to entertain at the party of a 14-year-old boy whose father is a policeman. Fix reluctantly takes the job because Pen is in dire need of money to save the house in which several generations of women of her family have lived. As expected, things go wrong and the £300 expected is not forthcoming. So when the possibility of an exorcism at the Bonnington Archive in Somers Town presents itself, Fix reluctantly accepts, despite the advice of his demon-haunted friend. Castor has always seen the dead, since he was a young boy. Ten years earlier, the dead started to rise in great numbers, appearing as zombies, ghosts, demons, or were-things. London, being a really old city, had a ratio of about 20 dead to one living person. The ratio was of course higher in the oldest part of the City. He starts his investigation at the Bonnington and discovers that the ghost of a young woman, dressed in white, with a hood obscuring part of her face, has been haunting the archive since a horde of Russian correspondence had been purchased. What was her connection with this new acquisition and can Fix get rid of her as promised? The investigation leads into strange by-ways which makes Felix question his motives in exorcising the ghosts without knowing where they go when they leave the building. It also leads him to an Eastern European pimp and his were-creature bodyguard. The author has written story arcs for comic books but this is his first novel. I think he is probably the British version of Harry Dresden. After all, London contains many more stories than does Chicago. If you like fantasy with a touch of mystery and some humor, try THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, July 2007
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