Moon Over Soho

This novel includes various significant developments in the overall plot of the series: Lesley begins her slow recovery from the events of the previous book, Peter's father begins to recover his life and his career, the Pale Lady comes and goes, and there are some first appearances: the Faceless Man, Harold Postmartin, Abigail Kamara, Sahra Guleed. We visit Nightingale's old school, briefly.

The tragic story of Simone doesn't seem of much significance to the series as a whole, but it's the central feature of this particular novel. I suppose it's a good tragic story, but I'm not a fan of tragedy in general, so this is not one of my favourite parts of the series.

On reading the book for the fourth time, I got through it more happily by skipping most of the bits about Simone and concentrating on all the other things going on.