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{{Infobox book series
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|books = '''In timeline order<ref name="sequence"/>'''<br/><br/>[[Rivers of London (novel)|Rivers of London]]<br>("Midnight Riot" in the US) ''(2011)''<br/>[[Moon Over Soho]] ''(2011)''<br/>[[Whispers Under Ground]] ''(2012)''<br/>[[Broken Homes]] ''(2013)''<br/>Body Work (graphic novel) ''(2016)''<br/>[[Foxglove Summer]] ''(2014)''<br/>Night Witch (graphic novel) ''(2016)''<br/>[[The Furthest Station]] (novella) ''(2017)''<br/>[[The Hanging Tree (novel)|The Hanging Tree]] ''(2016)''<br/>Black Mould (graphic novel) ''(2017)''<br/>Lies Sleeping ''(2018)''<br/>The October man (novella) ''(2019) ''<br/>
|author = [[Ben Aaronovitch]] (Novels and Graphic Novels)<br/>[[Andrew Cartmel]] (Graphic Novels)
|country = United Kingdom<!-- Do not link, per WP: OVERLINK -->
|language = English<!-- Do not link, per WP: OVERLINK -->
|genre = [[Urban Fantasy]]
|publisher = [[Victor Gollancz Ltd|Gollancz]]
|pub_date = 2011-2018
|media_type = Print}}
 
The '''''Peter Grant series''''' (alternatively, the '''''Rivers of London series''''' or the '''''PC Grant series''''')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781473218383|title=The PC Grant Series|publisher=[[Orion Books]]|accessdate=8 July 2017}}</ref> is a series of [[urban fantasy]] novels by English author [[Ben Aaronovitch]], and comics/graphic novels by Aaronovitch and [[Andrew Cartmel]], illustrated by [[Lee Sullivan (comics)|Lee Sullivan]].
 
== Plot overview ==
 
=== Novels and novellas ===
==== ''Rivers of London'' ====
(American Title: ''Midnight Riot'')
{{Main article |Rivers of London (novel)}}
The novel centres around the adventures of Peter Grant, a young officer in the [[Metropolitan Police]]; who, following an unexpected encounter with a ghost, is recruited into the small branch of the Met that deals with magic and the supernatural.
 
Peter Grant, having become the first English apprentice wizard in over seventy years, must immediately deal with two different but ultimately inter-related cases. In one he must find what is possessing ordinary people and turning them into vicious killers, and in the second he must broker a peace between the two warring gods of the River Thames and their respective families.<ref name="SFX">{{cite web|url=http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/01/14/rivers-of-london-by-ben-aaronovitch-%E2%80%93-book-review/ |title=Rivers Of London by Ben Aaronovitch&nbsp;– book review |publisher=''SFX'' |date=14 January 2011 |first=Saxon |last=Bullock|accessdate=25 November 2011}}</ref>
 
==== ''Moon over Soho'' ====
{{Main article|Moon Over Soho}}
Following the events of ''Rivers of London'' Police Constable and apprentice wizard Peter Grant is called in to help investigate the brutal murder of a journalist in the downstairs toilet of the [[Groucho Club]] in London's [[Soho]] district. 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. 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.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8594001/Genre-Science-Fiction.html |work= The Daily Telegraph |title = Book Review|first=Peter |last=Ingham |date=24 June 2011 |accessdate=28 November 2011}}</ref>
 
==== ''Whispers Under Ground'' ====
{{Main article|Whispers Under Ground}}
The son of a US senator is stabbed to death, and magic involvement is suspected. An FBI agent is involved with DC Grant's case. Meanwhile, in the sewers near the tunnels of London's Underground, something is happening.
 
==== ''Broken Homes'' ====
{{Main article|Broken Homes}}
Another killer is on the loose, and the prime suspect could be an associate of the twisted magician known as the Faceless Man. A town planner goes under a tube train, and a grimoire has been stolen. And when Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle, he has to investigate whether there is a connection.
 
==== ''Foxglove Summer'' ====
{{Main article|Foxglove Summer}}
Leaving London, Peter goes to a small village in Herefordshire, where there appears to be a supernatural element to the disappearance of two local girls. Having to cope with local cops, as well as local gods, Peter finds the mystery deepens.
 
==== ''The Hanging Tree'' ====
{{Main article|The Hanging Tree (novel)}}
Back in London, Peter faces the legacy of London's hangings. Investigating suspicious murders in the world of the super-rich, Peter is in a different world to the one he is used to investigating.
 
==== ''A Rare Book of Cunning Device'' ====
A free Audible short story narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith who reads the audio versions of the full-length novels in the series. Peter is summoned to the British Library to capture a poltergeist who is making mischief in the basement.
 
==== ''The Furthest Station'' (novella) ====
{{Main Article|The Furthest Station}}
In this novella, published in September 2017, Peter needs to deal with commuting ghosts, forgetful commuters, and deciphering a ghost's urgent message.
 
==== ''Lies Sleeping'' ====
Published in November 2018, Peter continues the investigations into Martin Chorley.
 
==== ''The October Man'' (novella) ====
Published in June 2019. 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 Mosel. His local colleague is Vanessa Sommer, who is going to join the KDA in the end as well.
 
=== Graphic novels ===
The Rivers of London graphic novel series each tell a separate story arc in individual comics that when finished are collected and sold in electronic form as well as hardback and softback bound editions.
 
'''''Body Work''''' - Starting with a car on a killing spree, with no driver, Peter investigates a Bosnian refugee and a seemingly-harmless wooden bench with the darkest of paths...<ref>{{cite book|title=Body Work|author1=[[Ben Aaronovitch]]|author2=[[Andrew Cartmel]]|isbn=9781785853647|year=2016|publisher=[[Titan Comics]]}}</ref>
:* Hardback: {{isbn|9781785853647}}, First edition March 2016
:* Softback: {{isbn|9781782761877}}, First edition March 2016
::* Set between ''Broken Homes'' and ''Foxglove Summer''<ref name="sequence">{{cite book|title=Black Mould|author1=[[Ben Aaronovitch]]|author2=[[Andrew Cartmel]]|isbn=9781785863851|year=2017|publisher=[[Titan Comics]]}} - Rivers of London Reader's Guide</ref>
::* Originally released as five monthly issues.
 
'''''Night Witch''''' - Russian Oligarch's daughter is kidnapped and he thinks kidnapping Nightwitch Varvara Sidorovna will help the situation.<ref>{{cite book|title=Night Witch|author1=[[Ben Aaronovitch]]|author2=[[Andrew Cartmel]]|isbn=9781785852930|year=2016|publisher=[[Titan Comics]]}}</ref>
:* Hardback: {{isbn|9781785853647}}, First edition November 2016
:* Softback: {{isbn|9781785852930}}, First edition December 2016
::* Set between ''Foxglove Summer'' and ''The Hanging Tree''<ref name="sequence" />
::* Originally released as five monthly issues.
 
'''''Black Mould''''' - Sahra Guleed joins Grant is determining the source of Black Mould invading the suburbs while Nightingale takes on a haunted ice cream van.<ref>{{cite book|title=Black Mould|author1=[[Ben Aaronovitch]]|author2=[[Andrew Cartmel]]|isbn=9781785863851|year=2017|publisher=[[Titan Comics]]}}</ref>
:* Hardback: {{isbn|9781785863851}}, First edition June 2017
:* Softback: {{isbn|9781785855108}}, First edition July 2017
::* Set between ''Night Witch'' and ''The Hanging Tree'' (Although the readers guide at the back of ''Black Mould'' places this story after ''The Hanging Tree''<ref name="sequence" />, a brief reference is made in ''The Hanging Tree'' to the events in this story<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/943233035|title=The hanging tree|last=1964-|first=Aaronovitch, Ben,|isbn=9780575132573|location=London, England|oclc=943233035}}</ref>)
::* Originally released as five monthly issues.
 
'''''Detective Stories''''' - Peter is trying to make Detective which is a bit complicated when your exam proctor is 90% sure you are crazy or a practical joke!
:* Softback: {{isbn|9781785861710}}, First edition December 2017 TBC
::* Set between ''The Hanging Tree'' and ''Cry Fox''.
::* Originally released as four monthly issues.
 
'''''Cry Fox''''' - Reynard is up to his tricks again and this time it involves some old Russian friends.
:* Softback: {{ISBN|9781785861727}}, First edition June 2018
::* Set between ''Detective Stories'' and ''Water Weed''.
::* Originally released as four monthly issues.
 
'''''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!
:* Softback: {{ISBN|9781785865459}}, First Edition December 2018
::* Originally released as four monthly issues, June 2018 - September 2018.
 
=== Future installments ===
Listed below are forthcoming titles, as confirmed on Ben Aaronovitch's blog.
 
==== ''What Abigail Did That Summer'' ====
''What Abigail Did That Summer'' is a forthcoming novella set between ''Foxglove Summer'' and ''The Hanging Tree''. In the series chronology it will be the first novella, taking place before ''The Furthest Station''.
 
==== ''False Value'' ====
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 émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand new London start up - the Serious Cybernetics Company. Publication date, Nov 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=False Value By Ben Aaronovitch |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538836/false-value-by-ben-aaronovitch/9780756416461/ |website=penguinrandomhouse.com |publisher=Penguin Random House |accessdate=6 July 2019}}</ref>
 
==== ''Untitled Kimberley Reynolds Novella'' ====
Following FBI Agent Kimberley Reynolds, who was introduced in Whispers Underground, and has subsequently become an ally of the Folly, this novella is set after Lies Sleeping.<ref name="temporarilysignificant">{{cite web|url=http://temporarilysignificant.blogspot.co.uk/p/a-chronology-of-rivers-of-london-books.html|title=Temporarily Significant - Book and Comic Chronology|language=English|accessdate=October 1, 2017}}</ref>
 
==== Graphic novels ====
In additional to the novels and novellas listed above, there are also 2 forthcoming graphic novels; '''Action at a Distance''', and '''The Fey and the Furious''' will take place after the events of Lies Sleeping.<ref name=temporarilysignificant/>
 
==== Other work ====
Aaronovitch has also announced several works within the same fictional universe, but set outside the chronology of the main series. These works include a short story entitled 'Cock of The Wall' focusing on Petrus Aelius Bekemetus,<ref name=temporarilysignificant/> who Aaronovitch describes as a "temple official/Londinium wideboy" - i.e. set in [[Roman London]] which Peter Grant briefly visited in the first book of the series.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/Ben_Aaronovitch/status/896717110868684800 |title=Ben Aaronovitch on Twitter |accessdate=October 7, 2017 |language=English}}</ref> Also planned is an untitled Novella focusing on Peter's mentor Thomas Nightingale.<ref name=temporarilysignificant/> On 1st May 2019 it was announced that a television adaptation of Rivers of London would be produced by [[Simon Pegg]] and [[Nick Frost]]'s production company, [[Stolen Picture]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-05-01/rivers-of-london-tv-series-simon-pegg-nick-frost-ben-aaronovitch |title=Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to turn fantasy novel series Rivers of London into a TV series |accessdate=May 10, 2019 |language=English}}</ref>
 
== Stories listed by internal chronology ==
In a blog entry<ref>http://temporarilysignificant.blogspot.com/p/a-chronology-of-rivers-of-london-books.html</ref>, the author has provided a list of the stories, by internal chronology.
 
{| class="wikitable"
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! Story title
! Published
|-
| 1966
| Moment #1
|
|-
| January to June 2012
| ''[[Rivers of London (novel)|Rivers of London]]'' (novel)
| {{Start date|2011|01|10|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lovereading.co.uk/book/9780575097568/isbn/Rivers-of-London-by-Ben-Aaronovitch.html |title=Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch - Lovereading UK |publisher=Love Reading |date=10 January 2011 |accessdate=25 November 2011}}</ref>
|-
| 2012
| Moment #3
|
|-
| Before the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]
| ''The Home Crowd Advantage'' (short story)
| 'London Edition' of ''[[Rivers of London (novel)|Rivers of London]]'' and on his [http://temporarilysignificant.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/the-home-crowd-advantage.html official website]
|-
| September to October 2012
| ''[[Moon Over Soho]]'' (novel)
| {{Start date|2011|04|21|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lovereading.co.uk/book/9780575097629/isbn/Moon-Over-Soho-by-Ben-Aaronovitch.html |title=Lovereading |publisher=Lovereading |date=13 October 2011 |accessdate=28 November 2011}}</ref>
|-
| December 2012
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| {{Start date|2012|06|21|df=y}}
|-
| March-April 2013
| ''[[Broken Homes]]'' (novel)
| {{Start date|2013|07|25|df=y}}
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| Not given
|''Body Work'' (graphic novel)
| Parts 1-5 - 16 July 2015 through 20 November 2015, collected 29 March 2016
|-
| August 2013
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|
|''What Abigail Did That Summer'' (novella)
| forthcoming
|-
|
|''Night Witch'' (graphic novel)
| Parts 1-3 - 16 March 2016 through 18 May 2016, collected 1 November 2016
|-
|
|''Black Mould'' (graphic novel)
| Parts 1-5 - 12 October 2016 through 8 March 2017, collected 25 July 2017
|-
| Late July 2013
| ''[[The Furthest Station]]'' (novella)
| 28 September 2017
|-
| 2014
| Moment #2
|
|-
| Undisclosed month in 2014
| ''[[The Hanging Tree (novel)|The Hanging Tree]]'' (novel)
| 3 November 2016 in the UK,<ref>http://www.gollancz.co.uk/2016/09/the-hanging-tree-announcement/</ref> 31 January 2017 in the US<ref>http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/315855/the-hanging-tree-by-ben-aaronovitch/</ref>
|-
|
| ''A Rare Book of Cunning Device'' (audio book)
| Audible special edition
|-
|
|''Detective Stories'' (graphic novel)
| Parts 1-4, 7 June 2017 through 3 September 2017, collected 29 December 2017
|-
|
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|
|''Water Weed'' (graphic novel)
| Parts 1-4, June 2018 through September 2018, collected 18 December 2018
|-
|
| Lies Sleeping (novel)
| 18 November 2018 in the UK
|-
|
| The Fey and the Furious (graphic novel)
| 10 November 2020 (forthcoming)
|-
|
| The October Man (novella)
| 31 May 2019
|-
|
| False Value
| 20 February 2020
|-
|Outside of main sequence
|''Action at a Distance'' (graphic novel)
| Parts 1-4, October 2018 through January 2019, collected 12 November 2019
|-
|
|Cock of the Wall (short story)
|
|-
|
|Untitled Nightingale Novella
|
|}
 
On the page where the official order is given, the author writes: "One caveat - the short story The Home Crowd Advantage is obviously set in 2012 during the London Olympics but because it was written before the chronology of the series had firmed up it contains a number of anachronisms. I've learnt to be philosophical about this sort of thing." Many of the stories give vague dates, and some of those dates conflict with the official series order (compare Foxglove Summer and The Furthest Station).
 
== Main characters ==
Note: the following section contains major spoilers for later books in the series.
* Police Constable Peter Grant; an officer in the Metropolitan Police and the first official apprentice wizard in sixty years.
* Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale; head of the Folly and the last officially sanctioned English Wizard.
* Lesley May; formerly Police Constable in the Metropolitan Police and de facto apprentice to Nightingale; now criminal associate of the Faceless Man and subject to an internal investigation
* Detective Sergeant Miriam Stephanopoulos; case officer of the Belgravia Murder Investigation Team and de facto Senior Investigating Officer.
* Sahra Guleed; Constable, often works with Peter when his cases are in London.
* Dr Abdul Haqq Walid; world-renowned [[gastroenterologist]] and cryptopathologist.
* Frank Caffrey; LFB ([[London Fire Brigade]]) Fire Investigator, ex-[[Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)|para]] and a key "associate" of the Folly.
* Professor Harold Postmartin D.Phil. FRS BMon "Postmartin the Pirate" Archivist and expert for the Folly.
* Molly; The Folly's [[domestic helper]], of not entirely clarified species, but she has been referred to as fae-like in the [[PC Grant]] novel "[[Foxglove Summer]]".
* Abigail Kamara; an annoyingly persistent teen-aged girl who is the de facto founding member of the Folly's Youth Wing. Lives at the same estate as Peter's parents.
* Beverley Brook; "daughter" of Mama Thames and goddess of [[Beverley Brook]], a small river in South London; in later books, Peter Grant's girlfriend.
* Cecilia Tyburn Thames; aka Lady Ty, "daughter" of Mama Thames and goddess of the [[River Tyburn]].
* Oxley; god of the River Oxley one of the "sons" of Father Thames and his chief negotiator.
* Toby; Peter's dog, who can detect magic, indicated by barking
* Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina (aka. Varenka Dobroslova); Russian/Soviet witch (Night Witch), magical WWII veteran (365th Special Regiment of the Red Army), later living on her own in Britain with a magically extended lifetime
 
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
 
[[Category:Contemporary fantasy novels]]
[[Category:Fantasy novel series]]
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