Christopher Fowler's The Victoria Vanishes
This is apparently the fifth book in a series I've never heard of before, centering on the Peculiar Crimes Unit of the London police, with the usual cast of police characters. Their mystery deals with a woman who is murdered in a pub that vanishes overnight. I will say the reveal was pretty engaging and interesting, though an early chapter that's totally shoehorned in is obviously going to figure importantly later--I wish Fowler had fit it into the story better. Anyway, B.
You might enjoy Fowler's first novel, ROOFWORLD. The writing's got some problems but I remember it as a ripping yarn about anarcho-punks living on the roofs of London v. supervillian w/ some kind of weird alchemical ritual murder plan. Or something like that.
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