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THE UNNATURAL INQUIRER
by Simon R. Green
Ace, January 2000
246 pages
$10.92 GPB
ISBN: 0441015581


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John Taylor, PI, whose mother was Lilith (yes, that Lilith) works in the Nightside, a hidden slice of London where it is always night and always filled with monsters (lions and tigers and Paddington bears, oh my!) He has some strange powers that help him find the missing but mostly he gets his man by just slogging through the streets and Underground of the Nightside, just as any other PI does

The editor of the local tabloid, The Unnatural Inquirer, asks John to come to the office. Apparently someone recorded a message from The Other Side, and the Inquirer bought the recording. When the owner agreed to come to the office with it, he disappeared. Taylor is offered £1 million to find it.

Of course he agrees, but first he had to do a job for Walker, who polices the Nightside. John and Suzie Shooter, the most successful bounty hunter in the area, have to find Max Maxwell, a bar owner who has the Aquarius Key with which he can call any demon to him. He called all the Voodoo gods and made them his slaves. They escaped are creating havoc. Susie and John track him down to a haunted amusement park in the Nightside and recover the key.

Then John heads over to the Inquirer offices and picks up a reporter, a young female demon who can change wardrobe at will. He takes her to all his haunts and tracks down the man with the evidence. But others are after that. What would all the gods do if everyone knew what happened after they died? Would there be no more donations to their churches? And the Inquirer just wants to make copies of the recording and sell them, whether they are phony or real.

This is the eighth in the series set in London's Nightside. They are getting more and more outrageous and more escapist, if possible. For a fast, fun read, try THE UNNATURAL INQUIRER.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, December 2007

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