NOBODY DOES IT BETTER ...Dr Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top-secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess and deal with the witnesses. But the Laundry is recovering from a devastating attack and when average citizens all over the country start to develop supernatural powers, the police are called in to help. Mo is appointed as official police liaison, but in between dealing with police bureaucracy, superpowered members of the public and disgruntled politicians, Mo discovers to her horror that she can no longer rely on her marriage, nor on the weapon that has been at her side for eight years of undercover work, the possessed violin known as 'Lecter'. If this wasn't bad enough, a mysterious figure known as Dr Freudstein is committing heists and sending increasingly threatening messages to the police. Who is Freudstein and what is he planning?
Bob as a narrator is much more amusing than Mo, so I miss that. But their relationship has always seemed a bit of a blank spot in the books. This does add depth and I think it makes it easier for a split to happen without making Bob seem like the bad guy, if indeed it does happen. Clearly she has her own issues, and so does he, and we see it clearly now from both sides, to the extent we cared about this relationship at all. Monsters and bureaucracy have always made this series a delight, not the romance.
But my guess about the baddie was wrong, and it raised some questions and dealt nicely with the very creepy violin. So yah, not what I hoped for as a narrator, but some of the crap she has to deal with does resonate, and overall it was a good read, if a bit lacking in face to face monster defeating action at times.
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