Amongst Our Weapons: Book 9 in the #1 bestselling Rivers of London series (A Rivers of London novel)

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Aaronovitch showcases a superlative blend of whimsy and grit in the eighth Rivers of London urban fantasy…. And Peter must solves this case soon because back home his partner Beverley is expecting twins any day now. Ben Aaronovitch started his writing career in screenwriting, most prominently on the TV show Doctor Who, before becoming a bookseller. I recognize that she had to come back into the story at some point, but I had hoped that that could wait another book.

In the case of this latest instalment, Amongst Our Weapons, we are treated to a supernatural romp that takes the reader from London to Manchester and back, and touches on the use of the weaponization of the occult in Nazi Germany, a brief but insightful history of Oliver Cromwell’s treatment of the Jews in Commonwealth England, a new take on the Spanish Inquisition (complete with the almost obligatory Monty Python references), and the odd key detail on medieval smithing techniques. Strange symbols were left on his wall, as was also the case in Althea’s apartment, and the child of one of his neighbors says she saw alien that day. Upon questioning the David’s ex-wife, Althea Synon, Peter and Guleed learn that she lied to David and held on to the ring. While Peter’s narration was still snarky and ironic in this book, I felt that it was less witty than it often has been in the past, and the same goes for the dialogue. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's new London start-up: the Serious Cybernetics Company.The London Silver Vaults—for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. Alongside their boss, DCI Thomas Nightingale, the SAU find themselves embroiled in a mystery that encompasses London's tangled history, foreign lands and, most terrifying of all, the North! Ben has struggled all his life with the puzzle of why his brain is stuffed with details about subjects he’s never studied; chiefly oddities of natural history, with an emphasis on weird insect sex.

It is, in short, a supernatural and historical tour de force, and a great addition to a series which has been broadly acknowledged as a huge success, and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of both the genre and the local history it brings forth in the process.

A low-income housing tower gone awry, an old enemy with a bone to pick…and a shocker of an ending— Broken Homes is a delight.

Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale; head of the Folly and the last officially sanctioned English Wizard.You need to have read the rest of the books to understand this one, but if you haven't got this series, get it. Beverley Brook; "daughter" of Mama Thames and goddess of Beverley Brook, a small river in South London; in later books, Peter Grant's girlfriend. Tobias Winter, the only apprentice in the "Abteilung komplexe und diffuse Angelegenheiten" (KDA) (Department for Complex and Diffuse Matters – the German equivalent of the Folly) investigates a suspicious death in a vineyard near the Moselle. The story was great and I might have slightly cried a little bit in the emotional places… Please never stop writing Rivers of London! Their abductor, Aptet, is a big fan of Michael Jackson and American reality TV but makes his living trapping and selling “stringers” – rare souls like Ben, born with memories belonging to other lives.

Effortlessly original, endlessly inventive and hugely entertaining – step into the world of the much-loved, Number One bestselling Rivers of London series. At the same time Peter is disturbed by a number of deaths of amateur and semi-professional jazz musicians that occurred shortly after they performed. This can be dated by a reference in the opening chapter of the novel, where Peter starts a new job on same day that David Bowie died, i.She escapes from them as she later escapes the roles men try to assign her: whore, slave, wife, victim.