[Le dernier apprenti sorcier 02] • Magie noire à Soho

The song. That’s what London constable and sorcerer’s apprentice Peter Grant

first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz

drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while

playing a gig at Soho’s 606 Club. The notes of the old jazz standard are

rising from the body—a sure sign that something about the man’s death was not

at all natural but instead supernatural.

Body and soul. They’re also what Peter will risk as he investigates a pattern

of similar deaths in and around Soho. With the help of his superior officer,

Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, the last registered wizard in

England, and the assistance of beautiful jazz aficionado Simone Fitzwilliam,

Peter will uncover a deadly magical menace—one that leads right to his own

doorstep and to the squandered promise of a young jazz musician: a talented

trumpet player named Richard “Lord” Grant—otherwise known as Peter’s dear old

dad.