Another novella set in the magical Rivers of London universe, this time over the pond in the land of the Virginia Gentlemen’s Company, where Agent Kimberley Reynolds is called upon to investigate Unusual Circumstances in a remote lakeside community in Wisconsin.
There she finds unusually adverse weather conditions, no trace of the ex-FBI agent who’d called in the UC, a journal with a mention of the mysterious disappearance of an 1843 VGC expedition and terrifyingly cold vestigia …..
And yes, this did keep me reading until just gone midnight. And it’s quite a scary read!
Oh how I love Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London books.
For this little novella we leave Peter Grant in the wilds of Herefordshire (!) and hang out with his niece Abigail. It’s the summer of 2013, and young north London teens are going missing for a day or night or two from the vicinity of Hampstead Heath…..
The presence of talking foxes always reminds me of the blink foxes of Alex Verus’ magical London. I would love Peter and Alex to meet, and I wonder what would happen if their worlds were to overlap….
Back to London, the magical version, where Peter Grant and the Falcon team investigate a sudden death in the London Silver Vaults…. and Peter prepares for the births, River Goddess style, of his and Bev’s twins – and parenthood.
A man, Piranesi, lives alone in a House of Halls, oceans below and clouds above. The Other visits him twice a week. There are fifteen human skeletons, living birds, fish and molluscs. A strange world indeed. With hints of CS Lewis.