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1) False value
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Rivers of London volume 8
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English
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Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with emigre Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand new London start up - the Serious Cybernetics Company. Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous 'silicon roundabout', Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is. Compared to his last job, Peter...
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Rivers of London volume 2
Language
English
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Peter Grant is not just a lowly detective constable: he's also apprenticed to the last wizard in Britain! Policing will never be the same again!
Author
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Rivers of London volume 1
Language
English
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Staff Picks:
Peter Grant, a newly qualified police constable, becomes the first apprentice wizard in 50 years. Brilliantly realised characters, really descriptive writing and a well developed world/universe for them to take place in. Sometimes described as what would happen if Harry potter joined the Police, they are much more than this, written for an adult audience and very funny
Picked by Luke
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Rivers of London volume 3
Language
English
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Peter Grant is a Detective Constable in the Metropolitan Police. He is also the first trainee wizard in the Met for 50 years. In the tunnels of London's Underground, the buried rivers, the Victorian sewers, he is hearing whispers of ancient arts and tortured, vengeful spirits.
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JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time. Each tale features a new introduction from the author, filled with insight and anecdote offering the reader a deeper into this absorbing fictional world....
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Series
Rivers of London volume 5
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant is sent out of London to check that nothing supernatural is involved. It?s purely routine - Nightingale, Peter?s superior, thinks he?ll be done in less than a day. But Peter?s never been one to walk away from someone in trouble, so when nothing overtly magical turns up, he volunteers his services to the local police who need all the help they...
7) Broken homes
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Series
Rivers of London volume 4
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A mutilated body in Crawley. Another killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil - an associate of the twisted magician known as the Faceless Man? Or just a common garden serial killer? Before PC Peter Grant can get his head round the case, a town planner going under a tube train and a stolen grimoire are adding to his case load. So far so London. But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle, on a housing...
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Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
PC Peter Grant is called to the British Library by a tough librarian who suspects that there is a poltergeist in the stacks. With the assistance of the Archivist and his ghost hunting dog, he sets out to figure out what to do about the troublesome device.
16) Lies sleeping
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Rivers of London volume 7
Language
English
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Martin Chorley, aka the Faceless Man, wanted for many counts of murder, fraud and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run. Peter Grant, Detective Constable and apprentice wizard, now plays a key role in an unprecedented joint operation to bring Chorley to justice. But even as the unwieldy might of the Metropolitan Police bears down on its foe, Peter uncovers clues that Chorley, far from being finished, is executing the final stages...
17) The hanging tree
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Rivers of London volume 6
Language
English
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Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly, even when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the most expensive apartment blocks in London. But Lady Ty's daughter was there, and Peter owes Lady Ty a favour. Plunged into the alien world of the super-rich, where the basements are bigger than the house and dangerous, arcane items are bought and sold on the open market, a sensible young copper would keep his head...