The fourth novel in Ben Aaronovitch‘s best-selling Peter Grant series, BROKEN HOMES is out now in Taiwan! Published by 馬可孛羅文化事業 as 天空塔 黑巫再現. Here’s the synopsis…

地底城事件結束後，納丁格爾與他的學徒彼得．葛蘭特體認到，黑魔法師無臉男的勢力已經擴張到他們難以察覺的深處，無論這位黑魔法師真正的目的為何，徹查所有的小鱷魚名單、找出無臉男的真實身分，絕對是當務之急。因此，即便是一樁看似簡單的交通意外，也不能錯過任何線索。

彼得的直覺沒錯，小鱷魚成員的交通意外演變為一件毀屍滅跡的凶殺案；不久之後，竟有第二名可疑的小鱷魚成員在地鐵站內跳軌自殺。一具屍體或許只是意外，但兩具屍體就不可能只是巧合，而且一定與無臉男有關。

為了化被動為主動，彼得決定設下誘餌引無臉男出現，沒想到出現的卻是令他們意想不到的另一個熟面孔，死去的伍德維爾．詹托的看護──凡倫卡，來自俄羅斯的魔法學徒，危險度極高的暗夜女巫。

現在，倫敦有兩名出手凶狠的非法巫師逍遙法外了。最令人擔心的是，暗夜女巫是否與黑魔法師相互聯手？小鱷魚的命案又是何人所為？此時，彼得追查到一本遭竊的德國魔法書，屬於瘋狂建築師艾瑞克．史騰堡所有，更進一步發現這些喪命的死者，都與史騰堡所蓋的空中花園大樓有關…

高掛空中的冠冕，點亮城市的火炬，魔法與工業的結合，是不切實際的空想，還是真實存在的世紀之作？

The first three novels in the series have also been published in Taiwan: RIVERS OF LONDON (倫敦河 惡靈騷動), MOON OVER SOHO (蘇活月 爵士魅影) and WHISPERS UNDERGROUND (地底城 魔法暗湧).

The series is published by Gollancz in the UK, and in the US by Del Rey (1-3) and DAW Books (4-6). Here’s the English-language synopsis for BROKEN HOMES…

A mutilated body in Crawley. Another killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil – an associate of the twisted magician known as the Faceless Man? Or just a common garden serial killer?

Before PC Peter Grant can get his head round the case, a town planner going under a tube train and a stolen grimoire are adding to his case-load.

So far so London.

But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle, on an housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans and inhabited by the truly desperate.

Is there a connection?

And if there is, why oh why did it have to be South of the River?