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

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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. Abigail Kamara; an annoyingly persistent teen-aged girl who is the de facto founding member of the Folly's Youth Wing. 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.

In this novella, published in September 2017, Peter needs to deal with commuting ghosts, forgetful commuters, and deciphering a ghost's urgent message. 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. She was given the ring by David when they were married, and she won’t let the police have it as evidence, even though she and David were no longer close at the time of his death. Still, Sahra and Peter learn that Jocasta and the others were students at Manchester University in the 1990s and they made a small religious group. Clearly the murder was paranormal in some way, but the type of magic it involved is not one that Peter and Nightingale are familiar with.Water Weed – When Chelsea and Olympia decide to earn a few quid on the side, Peter and Bev find themselves confronting London's new queenpin of crime – the brutal and beautiful Hoodette!

Despite the apparently natural causes of death each body exhibits a magical signature which leads Peter to believe that the deaths are far from natural.

Without a ship to command with military discipline, would the elite officer class retain their power? Fair to say, I’ve not only enjoyed each and every instalment in the series, but there hasn’t been a single one of the novels that I’ve closed without first having learnt at least some historical factoid that I didn’t already know, often something I hadn’t even begun to conceptualise. All the old friends from the previous stories were there, as well as all the magic from the earlier books.

It was different to see Peter training someone, instead of being the newbie himself, and it highlights his growth and maturation. And when Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle, he has to investigate whether there is a connection. Detective Constable Sahra Guleed; Attached to Belgravia Murder Investigation Team, often works with Peter when his cases are in London. Soon the ship will start to brake, and even if the destination world is not as habitable as hoped, the passengers will be stuck on it.

There are appearances by most of the usual crowd, Lesley, the foxes, the River Goddeses and a new trainee. The secret to the Rivers series has always been the excellent balance between fantasy and police work thatAaronovitchcreates. She added, "Aaronovitch’s work has been translated into 14 languages and sold in excess of five million copies worldwide, and has its own wiki, Follypedia. Examples include novels by Ilona Andrews, Mary Balogh, Aster Glenn Gray, Helen Hoang, Piper Huguley, Lisa Kleypas, Jeannie Lin, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Naomi Novik, Nalini Singh, and Megan Whalen Turner. The latest in his Rivers of London novels, which follow a close-knit team of specialist London cops as they battle the supernatural while gaining tantalising glimpses into London’s past, is now available – the twelfth instalment, if one ignores a parallel series of graphic novels that take the Rivers universe into the low twenties.

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the Traditional Owners of the land on which we produce ArtsHub, ScreenHub and GamesHub.The basics have been covered and Grant is able to indulge in some fun experiments that help to solve the case. She does agree to come in to the station for an interview where Nightingale confirms that the ring is magical.