You can download and listen to our latest discussion right here. The penultimate month of 2012 (because we love any chance to use the word “penultimate”) brings us City of the Dead by Lloyd Rose, an Eighth Doctor BBC Books novel. This was Rose’s first novel, before which she wrote for Homicide: Life on the Street. After the success of City of the Dead, she was asked to return for the Eighth Doctor series with Camera Obscura and for the Algebra of Ice, featuring the Seventh Doctor, Ace, and the Brigadier.
From the back cover:
‘Nothing can get into the TARDIS,’ the Doctor whispered. Then he realized that Nothing had.
New Orleans, the early 21st century. A dealer in morbid artefacts has been murdered. A charm carved from human bone is missing. An old plantation, miles from any water, has been destroyed by a tidal wave.
Anji goes dancing. Fitz goes grave-robbing. The Doctor attracts the interest of a homicide detective and the enmity of a would-be magician. He wants to find out the secret of the redneck thief and his blind wife. He’d like to help the crippled curator of a museum of magic. He’s trying to refuse politely the request of a crazy young artist that he pose naked with the man’s wife.
Most of all, he needs to figure out what all of them have to do with the Void that is hunting him down.
Before it catches him.
Voodoo, hoodoo, and mystery abound in this month’s selection, which is bound to go down a lot easier than last month’s. Be sure to grab a (cheap) copy and sit back and relax as we discuss The City of the Dead.
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Fun links:
The City of the Dead on Amazon. (You can afford it!)
Reviews on the Doctor Who Ratings Guide.
Synopsis on The Doctor Who Reference Guide. (Spoilers, sweetie!)
Lloyd Rose's Wikipedia page.
