NOT RECOMMENDED: A ghost of a chance, by SIMON GREEN

Oh, rats. I hate it when a book doesn't pan out, as it did for me with GHOST. It's about the ghost-hunting trio I mentioned, but it goes very quickly into real horror, not just urban fantasy. There is a definite line, even if both involve fighting monsters in a gritty present-day setting. This is a fill-the-London-Underground-with-the-blood-of-tortured-commuters type of book. Also, the main viewpoint character, JC, leaves his team alone for huge stretches of the novel, which is frustrating. SIMON GREEN'S Nightside novels have some, okay, a fair amount, of horror, too, but John Taylor is a fierce knight who stands by you and chases the terrors away.