In three weeks, Ben Aaronovitch and Adam Oyebanji will be taking part in an event at the Bloody Scotland festival: “Murder Most Speculative”. The event is on September 12th, at 8:30pm. It is a ticketed event, and will also feature Nicholas Binge. Here’s what it’ll be about…
There’s some corner of the crime fiction field that is for ever slightly weird, stretching both the boundaries of the genre and your imagination, creating wonderful worlds of murder and mystery where anything can happen.
Ben is the internationally bestselling author of the Rivers of London series of novels and novellas. The latest book, STONE & SKY is out now, published by Gollancz/Orion in the UK, DAW Books in North America, and DTV in Germany. Here’s the synopsis…
‘This isn’t London. The rules are different up here, and so are the allegiances.’
Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he’ll need one when this is over…
If more’s the merrier, then it’s ecstatic as his partner Beverley, their young twins, his mum, dad, his dad’s band and their dodgy manager all tag along. Even his boss, DCI Thomas Nightingale, takes in the coastal airs as he trains Peter’s cousin Abigail in the arcane arts.
And they’ll need them too, because Scotland’s Granite City has more than its fair share of history and mystery, myth … and murder.
When a body is found in a bus stop, fresh from the sea, the case smells fishy from the off.
Something may be stirring beyond the bay – but there’s something far stranger in the sky…
Adam is the author, most recently, of ESPERANCE, published by Arcadia in the UK. Here’s the synopsis…
The history-bending speculative fiction from Adam Oyebanji, award-winning author of BRAKING DAY.
An impossible death: Detective Ethan Krol has been called to the scene of a baffling murder: a man and his son, who appear to have been drowned in sea-water. But the nearest ocean is a thousand miles away.
An improbable story: Hollie Rogers doesn’t want to ask too many questions of her new friend, Abi Eniola. Abi claims to be an ordinary woman from Nigeria, but her high-tech gadgets and extraordinary physical abilities suggest she’s not telling the whole truth.
An incredible quest: As Ethan’s investigation begins to point towards Abi, Hollie’s fears mount. For Abi is very much not who she seems. And it won’t be long before Ethan and Hollie find themselves playing a part in a story that spans cultures, continents . . . and centuries.
An extraordinary speculative thriller about the scars left by the Atlantic slave-trade, by a master of the genre.
Zeno represents Adam Oyebanji in the UK and Commonwealth, on behalf of the JABberwocky Literary Agency in New York.