Someone wasn’t thinking when they left Abigail Kamara to her own devices. Now she’s chasing her own mystery — teenagers have been going missing. Luckily Abigail will have the help of the talking foxes.
Peter Grant has gone undercover in a tech genius’ company and finds a secret hidden in its bowels. A technology that stretches back to the past and forward to the future of AI.
Faced with the destruction of London, Detective Constable (and apprentice wizard) Peter Grant must come to terms with his traitorous ex-best friend Leslie May and the malevolent killer Mr Punch.
Ghosts are rampaging on the Underground, desperate to deliver their message, disintegrating before a young ghost and a godlet to sic the police onto the truth.
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library The Hanging Treeby Ben AaronovitchIt is part of the , series and is a detective mystery, urban fantasy in Paperback edition that was published by DAW Books on January 31, 2017 and has 292 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Midnight Riot, Moon Over Soho, Whispers Under Ground, Broken Homes, Foxglove Summer, “The Furthest Station”, Lies Sleeping, False Value, “What Abigail Did That Summer”Sixth in the PC Peter Grant urban fantasy-detective mystery series (a.k.a., the Rivers of London series) set in London and revolving around a magic division of the police, in particular one police constable learning the trade, the magic one. A character’s color or race never seem to impact me much, and it wasn’t until this story — the sixth!! — that it dawned on me that some might want to know — and revel — in a story in which a black man is the hero. So take it away, Police Constable Peter Grant… My […]
Two young girls in an unnatural countryside with supernatural activity galore disappear. It forces PC Peter Grant out to interpret magical phenomena with a few nudges and winks that grease the wheels.
Is it community policing or undercover when Peter and Lesley move into an apartment before it call comes crashing down?
The wealthy, powerful family of the dead American student, James Gallagher, wants his murder solved. Only, it’s deeper & more unnatural than suspected.
Peter Grant uncovers a cabal & reveals a truth about his father’s decline through the jazz scene & a jazz kitten even as Nightingale learns his ignorance.
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Midnight Riotby Ben Aaronovitch urban fantasy in eBook edition on February 1, 2011 and has 310 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Moon Over Soho, Whispers Under Ground, Broken Homes, Foxglove Summer, The Hanging Tree, “The Furthest Station”, Lies Sleeping, False Value, “What Abigail Did That Summer”First in the Peter Grant hysterically funny urban fantasy/police procedural series and revolving around a police constable in London. (Rivers of London is its UK title. And why authors or publishers think it’s necessary to change the title when publishing in a different but still English-speaking country, I’ll never know…) In 2011, Midnight Riot was nominated for the British Book Award for New Writer of the Year. My Take This was tooooo funny. I wanted to turn the page if only to read what Aaronovitch, er, Grant, was making fun of next. Yes, the story was a hoot as well. Aaronovitch’s style of writing feels like a blend of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld for the snark and Caitlin […]