The Unnatural Inquirer

Nightside, Book 8

De: Simon R. Green

Narrado por: Dan Calley

John Taylor's the name. I'm a PI working a small slice of mystical real estate in the hidden center of London. It's a place where the sun refuses to rise, where monsters and men walk side by side. And if you want something found in the Nightside, I'm your man.

The editor of the Unnatural Inquirer—the Nightside's most notorious rag—has offered me one million pounds to find a man who claims to have evidence of the Afterlife stored on a DVD. The Inquirer made the guy a sweet deal. Then he and the disc vanished.

I don't know if the disc is on the level—but for a million pounds, I'm willing to believe. Trouble is, someone else—someone very powerful—is on the trail, too. And who—or what—ever it is, is deadly determined to find the disc first . . .

©2008 Simon R. Green (P)2022 Tantor

Clever and delightfully funny

The plots are never guessable and everything is always a surprise, the fact this company begs for reviews but forces you to write whole paragraphs is laughable.

Goofy Fantasy SciFi

Everything is possible in this wacky universe where past & present & heaven+hell+earth are all permeable.

Gripping!

Great fast paced story. The magic and sorcery is unigue and the narrator is talented.

I love this series

Good PI story
It was nice to focus on John solving a case
I love the new characters John encountered in this book

Truly see the grey

I think this is the first novel we see how truly grey Taylor can be morally and I love it

Madlibs with the Nightside formula

“Don’t push the red button”
This was a perfectly serviceable, self-contained mystery procedural. Nothing groundbreaking.
Just John Taylor defeating uber-boogeymen by opening his third eye, finding their kryptonite and *poof* as he thinks “it was the easiest thing in the world.”

This one was higher than usual with the comic characters … you know the ones, who go by descriptive titles rather than their actual names: The Collector, The Remover, The General, etc.

It did feel like the author was going through the formula motions, plugging in the usual John Taylor-isms, recaps, and rote scenes to stretch the storyboard idea into a full length book:
-There’s the usual, single scene with his secretary Cathy (remember how he saved her from that house?)
-John goes to Strangefellows pub (it’s “the oldest bar in the world”)
-Questioning of his romance with Suzie (and his explanation of “monsters belong together”)
-And lately, it’s all about “the devil always lies, except when the truth could hurt you more”

Not a bad formula … but when you get down to the new story of an expose video, this is barely a novella.