When a call from a former FBI agent comes in using the code phrase “X-Ray Sierra India” it goes straight to the desk of agent Kimberley Reynolds who has been tasked with any case with “unusual characteristics” or as her British police counterparts would put it “weird bollocks”.
Reynolds is despatched to Eloise, Wisconsin - a small town on the shores of Lake Superior, frozen in the middle of an unusually violent ice storm. The former agent is now missing, apparently kidnapped by unidentified individuals who may or may not have had “horns and snouts”. The game is now, as they say, afoot.
This is a short novella with a straight to the point plot. It’s not really a spoiler to say that events unfold in the best X-Files tradition with a dogged agent putting the clues together by investigating the past history of a place and linking it to the present. This being America, there are quite a few more guns in the story than the traditional Rivers of London setting, but it’s enjoyable all the same and left me wanting to read more about Agent Reynolds, hopefully in a full length story sometime soon.
The audiobook of this is narrated by Penelope Rawlins, who does a great job, even managing a reasonable London accent for a brief cameo appearance from Peter Grant.
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