member of Lord Grant's Irregulars jazz quartet. James Lochrane; lecturer in 17th Century French history at Queen Mary's College, jazz drummer and founder member of Lord Grant's Irregulars jazz quartet. Henry May; Lesley May's father. Tista Ghosh; jazz aficionado and official for the Musician's Union. Abigail Kamara; annoyingly persistent teenaged girl. Cyrus Wilkinson; jazz musician, sax player and victim of his lover jazz vampire Simone Simone Fitzwilliam; freelance jazz journalist, Cyrus Wilkinson's lover, jazz vampire and Peter Grant's love interest Cover artwork As with the previous book in the series the Gollancz cover is based upon a detail from Stephen Walter's 'The Island.' Reviewers noted that the US publisher, Del Rey, changed the cover from one featuring an obscured black man to one in silhouette. Stephen Bitsoli, writing for The Macomb Daily, offered "two versions of that cover also exist, one black, one silhouette. Guess which one has been published?" Del Rey later changed their cover policy and, having adopted the UK style "Walters" covers for the release of Whispers Under Ground, have announced that new editions of Moon Over Soho will match the British cover. Reception The novel was well received, with reviewers praising the novel's humour and sense of place; the main detractor being the incomplete plot when taken as a self-contained novel as much of the story is left unresolved. In a review for The Daily Telegraph, Peter Ingham praised the novel's "laconic humour" and stated "It is a rich formula with a bittersweet ending. Terrific entertainment and ripe for a series." Writer Sam Downing was also positive in his review, calling the protagonist a "fresh, likeable hero", the plot "messy and ridiculous and fun as it sounds." and stated that "It’s this kind of world-building that leaves me double-keen to see what magic Aaronovitch will work in the forthcoming third instalment." The novel was also reviewed by Joshua Hill, writing for the Fantasy Book Review, who praised the character's "casual acceptance of magic", stating that it "makes sense, when you consider the often used belief that the human mind fills in a lot of the details of things we do not understand." Hill also stated that while "this book once again blew my mind"; referring to the previous in the series; he also found that the book was "let down with utterly atrocious editing" as "when a book is published to the world, you expect the