Syren continues the adventures of the paranormal P.I. introduced in The Wooden Baby and Dead Wolf in a Hat.

This time, industry tycoon Theo Carr needs a P.I. to keep tabs his wayward son. The trail leads our hero into a den of vice and leaves him blocking his ears against the fatal song of the syren. Only his old friend Jimmy the Griff can help - if Jimmy can stop careering through time, that is.

Syren took my dimension-dabbling gumshoe deeper into the city backstreets than he'd gone before. That's because the city was expanding in my head, becoming more real. The genre collision continued too, with time-travel and brane geometry adding a little SF to the mix.

"Entertaining with innovative world-building" - TangentOnline
"Well handled [with] cleverly sketched in fantastical background" - Locus

Syren links

• Realms of Fantasy