Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London #2)

by Ben Aaronovitch

Inside, the mortuary was much the same as the rest of the hospital, only with fewer people complaining about the state of the NHS.

‘Do I have a signature?’ I asked. ‘Yes,’ said Nightingale. ‘When you practise, things have an alarming tendency to catch fire.’

The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with an ‘ology’ tacked on the end.

I’ve never been what you’d call a strong swimmer, but if the alternative is being a statistic it’s amazing what you can pull out of the reserves.

It took me an hour to get off that roof, and once again I had to surrender my top layer of clothes to forensics who now had, I calculated, more pairs of my shoes than I did.