Broken Homes

Broken Homes is the fourth novel in the Peter Grant series by the English author Ben Aaronovitch, published in 2013 by Gollancz.

[1] PC Peter Grant and DCI Nightingale are called to investigate a road traffic accident involving Robert Weil when human blood is found in his car.

Subsequent enquiries lead to a shallow grave containing the body of a young woman killed by a shotgun to the face, and her fingers removed.

Meanwhile, PC Lesley May, still on indefinite sick leave after suffering a magical attack that resulted in catastrophic facial injuries in Rivers of London, returns to The Folly after her latest round of reconstructive surgery.

Returning to bait a trap for the Faceless Man, Peter and Lesley attend a Goblin Market, a mobile event where the fey and magical practitioners meet to do business and socialise.

When Nightingale hears Peter's account and examines the massive property damage she inflicted, he identifies Debroslova as Nochnye Koldunyi or Night Witch.

Peter discovers a book Folly archivist Professor Postmartin thinks significant showed up in connection to Stromberg's library.

Under questioning, the Night Witch (born Varvara Sidorovna), explains she was captured during the Great Patriotic War and became a part of the Organisation Todt slave-labour effort to build Hitler's Atlantic Wall.