Are you a practitioner?" I ask. "A wizard?" "Sorceress, my dear," she says. "Practitioner is how the gentlemen have styled themselves, as quacks now … - Ben Aaronovitch

There's more to life than just London," said Nightingale.
"People keep saying that," I said. "But I've never actually seen any proof.

I rang her and left a message identifying myself and giving an impression of urgency without actually saying anything concrete. Never record anything you wouldn’t want turning up on YouTube is my motto.

Why would someone use magic to kill a jazz musician in the middle of his set? I mean, I have my problems with the New Thing and the rest of the atonal modernists but I wouldn’t kill someone for playing it–at least not if I wasn’t trapped in the same room.