Ben Aaronovitch

CSI meets Harry Potter in this three-volume collection of graphic novel from Ben Aaronovitch, writer of the bestselling Rivers of London supernatural police procedural crime novel series, Andrew Cartmel author of The Vinyl Detective, Doctor Who Writer James Swallow and Emmy Award-winning writer, Celeste Bronfman. These all-new graphic novels are all based on the best-selling Rivers of London series.A stunning box set edition of three bestselling graphic novels in the Rivers of London series, starring Ben Aaronovitch's laconic trainee wizard and budding detective, Peter Grant.Vol 10: Deadly Ever AfterIllustrations from a mysterious book of fairy tales drawn in the late 1800s are coming to life in the 21st Century and causing havoc. The illustrations were originally painted by a Victorian artist called Jeter Day who disappeared one night in an enchanted forest when he was spirited away by tree nymphs never to be seen again…Now, with the enchantment accidentally broken, Jeter has returned to our world bitter and resentful and woe betide any man who stands in his way. With Peter and Nightingale busy on another case, it falls to sisters Olympia and Chelsea and the help of the Foxes to stop Jeter and save the day.Vol 11: Here Be DragonsSome say a dangerous monster is at large above the streets of London.A monster red in tooth and claw, with wings, and fire for breath. And its name… Wyvern! After a rash of strange UFO sightings above the capital, Wizard in training Peter Grant and his mentor, Thomas Nightingale, the Met’s only sanctioned wizard, takes to the skies to investigate rumours of a Wyvern. As the mystery deepens, Peter and Thomas find themselves caught between two groups of hunters – one human, one fae. To save the skies of the city, Peter will have to face the enraged beast – but can he end things peacefully... Or will he be forced to destroy the last wyvern?Vol 12: Stray Cat BluesA cat-woman, a notorious London gangster, and a brothel specialising in chimeras. Old frenemies become allies in the latest Rivers of London adventure when a mysterious cat-woman comes to The Folly looking for help to free her sisters from a notorious chimera brothel run by London gangster Monty and his sinister magically endowed mother, Mrs. Napier.

Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - flaneur extraordinaire and Englishman abroad - as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps. 'Gussie' is not one to shun shut-eye himself, however. But his peaceful luxuriation is about to be rudely awakened by the arrival of an unexpected guest. Enter his old friend Thomas Nightingale, who has braved the Atlantic passage pursuing the matter of a rather intriguing saxophone said to possess a strange power over those who play it. This deeply inconvenient affair will rouse Gussie from his warm bed for the cold shores of Long Island - and down to the jazz clubs of Harlem where music, magic, and madness haunt the shadows...****PRAISE FOR THE RIVERS OF LONDON NOVELS'Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. I love being there more than the real London'NICK FROST'As brilliant and funny as ever'THE SUN'Charming, witty, exciting'THE INDEPENDENT 'An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grown-ups'THE TIMES****Discover why this incredible series has sold over two million copies around the world. If you're a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams - don't panic - you will love Ben Aaronovitch's imaginative, irreverent and all-round irresistible novels.

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 insights and anecdotes offering the reader a deeper exploration into this absorbing fictional world. With an introduction from internationally bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Charlaine Harris, this is a must read for any Rivers of London fan. Discover why this incredible series has sold over 7.5 million copies around the world. If you're a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams-- don't panic-- you will love Ben Aaronovitch.

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES'This isn't London. The rules are different up here, and so are the allegiances.'Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he'll need one when this is over...If more's the merrier, then it's ecstatic as his partner Beverley, their young twins, his mum, dad, his dad's band and their dodgy manager all tag along. Even his boss, DCI Thomas Nightingale, takes in the coastal airs as he trains Peter's cousin Abigail in the arcane arts.And they'll need them too, because Scotland's Granite City has more than its fair share of history and mystery, myth ... and murder. When a body is found in a bus stop, fresh from the sea, the case smells fishy from the off. Something may be stirring beyond the bay - but there's something far stranger in the sky...* * * * *PRAISE FOR BEN AARONOVITCH & THE RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES:'Highly entertaining'SUNDAY EXPRESS'Charming, witty, exciting'THE INDEPENDENT'Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. I love being there more than the real London'NICK FROST'As brilliant and funny as ever ... Masterfully crafted - gives the late, great Terry Pratchett a run for his money'THE SUN'An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grown-ups'THE TIMES'Funny and wildly inventive'MAIL ON SUNDAY

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES "This isn't London. The rules are different up here..." All Detective Sergeant Peter Grant wanted was a nice holiday up in Scotland.He'll need one once this is over... Sea: check.Sand: some.Sun: sort of - but that's not the only thing in the sky... * * * * * PRAISE FOR BEN AARONOVITCH & THE RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES: "Highly entertaining."SUNDAY EXPRESS "Charming, witty, exciting."THE INDEPENDENT "Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. I love being there more than the real London."NICK FROST"As brilliant and funny as ever... Masterfully crafted - gives the late, great Terry Pratchett a run for his money."THE SUN"An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grown-ups."THE TIMES"Funny and wildly inventive."MAIL ON SUNDAY

A cat-woman, a notorious London gangster, and a brothel specialising in chimeras. Or just another Wednesday as it's known in the world of Rivers of London. Stray Cat Blues is the latest adventure in the critically acclaimed series. CSI meets Harry Potter in this supernatural police procedural crime series based on characters and the books written by Ben Aaronovitch. This new series is scripted by regular co-writer Andrew Cartmel author of the Vinyl Detective. Old frenemies become allies in the latest Rivers of London adventure when a mysterious cat-woman comes to The Folly looking for help to free her sisters from a notorious chimera brothel run by London gangster Monty and his sinister magically endowed mother, Mrs. Napier. Now, Romeo, together with Abigail, Kitty Butchart aka Hoodette, Reynard Fossman, and Gina Penlaw must rescue the three imprisoned women before the Faceless Man can get his hands on them... Collecting together the critically acclaimed original four-issue mini-series. With exclusive bonus material, included a script to art comparison, covers gallery and a collection of the backup articles from the four comics. The continuing comic-book adaptation of Ben Aaronovitch's hugely successful and award-winning 10-book novel series first published in 2011. An all-new original adventure starring the Peter Grant the wizard-in-training hero of the first Rivers of London Novel, 'Rivers of London', also known as Midnight Riot in the US.

New York City, New York.Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps.That is, until his old friend Thomas Nightingale arrives, pursuing a rather mysterious affair concerning an old saxophone - which will take Gussie from his warm bed, to the cold shores of Long Island, and down to the jazz clubs where music, magic, and madness haunt the shadows...****PRAISE FOR THE RIVERS OF LONDON NOVELS'Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. I love being there more than the real London'NICK FROST'As brilliant and funny as ever'THE SUN'Charming, witty, exciting'THE INDEPENDENT 'An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grown-ups'THE TIMES****Discover why this incredible series has sold over two million copies around the world. If you're a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams - don't panic - you will love Ben Aaronovitch's imaginative, irreverent and all-round irresistible novels.

The brand new novella in the Sunday Times #1 bestselling Rivers of London series.****THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY ACROSS THE POND...When ex-FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an 'X-Ray Sierra India' incident, the operator doesn't understand. He tells them to pass it up the chain till someone does.That person is FBI Special Agent Kimberley Reynolds. Arriving snowbound Northern Wisconsin, she finds that a tornado has flattened half the town - and there's no sign of Henderson.Things soon go from weird to worse, as neighbours report unsettling sightings, key evidence goes missing, and the snow keeps rising - cutting off the town, with no way in or out...As the clues lead to the coldest of cold cases - a cursed expedition into the frozen wilderness - Reynolds follows a trail from the start of the American nightmare, to the horror that still lives on today...****PRAISE FOR BEN AARONOVITCH & THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES:'Highly entertaining' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Charming, witty, exciting' THE INDEPENDENT'Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters' NICK FROST'Funny and wildly inventive' MAIL ON SUNDAY

My name is Peter Grant, and I'm a Police Constable in that mighty army for justice known as the Metropolitan Police (a.k.a. the Filth). I'm also an apprentice wizard, the first in fifty years. When your dad is an almost famous jazz trumpeter, you know the classics. And that's why, when Dr Walid called me down to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognized the tune it was playing as the jazz classic 'Body and Soul.' Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint on his corpse as if it were a wax cylinder recording. The former owner of the body, Cyrus Wilkinson, was a part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant who had dropped dead of a heart attack just after finishing a gig. He wasn't the first, but no one was going to let me exhume corpses just to see if they were playing my tune. So it was back to old-fashioned police legwork, starting in Soho, the heart of the scene, with the lovely Simone - Cyrus's ex-lover, professional jazz kitten and as inviting as a Rubens portrait - as my guide. And it didn't take me long to realise there were monsters stalking Soho, creatures feeding off that special gift that separates the great musician from someone who can raise a decent tune. What they take is beauty. What they leave behind is sickness, failure and broken lives.

Premija Akademii NF, fentezi i khorrora. Finalist premii "Deti nochi" i premii Grema Mastertona. Menja zovut Piter Grant, i ja byl na ispytatelnom sroke v dolzhnosti konsteblja v etoj moguschestvennoj armii pravosudija, kotoruju zakonoposlushnye ljudi nazyvajut londonskoj politsiej. Moja istorija nachalas, kogda ja popytalsja doprosit svidetelja prestuplenija, kotoryj byl uzhe mertv... Eto privleklo vnimanie inspektora Tomasa Najtingejla, poslednego maga v Anglii. Teper ja detektiv-konstebl i uchenik kolduna, pervyj za poslednie pjatdesjat let. Moj mir stal namnogo slozhnee: v prigorodakh ustraivajut svoi gnezda vampiry, bogi i bogi Temzy vrazhdujut, a v serdtse goroda, kotoryj ja tak ljublju, chto-to prognilo... Zlonamerennyj mstitelnyj dukh zakhvatyvaet obychnykh londontsev i prevraschaet v marionetki, chtoby razygrat dramu nasilija i otchajanija. Prizrak bunta i mjatezha prosnulsja v gorode, a mne pridetsja navesti porjadok v etom khaose - ili umeret, pytajas sdelat eto. "Vot chto sluchilos by, esli by Garri Potter vyros i stal kopom". - Diana Gebldon "Pervoklassnaja smes "Garri Pottera" i "CSI - Mesta prestuplenija". - io9 "Svezhaja, originalnaja i prekrasnaja kniga. Ja vljublena v nee". - Sharlin Kharris "Roman napolnen detaljami i voobrazheniem. Aaronovich - eto to imja, za kotorym nado sledit". - Piter Gamilton "Blestjaschij i veselyj". - The Sun "Ben Aaronovich sozdal prekrasnyj mir, polnyj zagadok, magii i fantasticheskikh personazhej. Ja ljublju byvat v nem bolshe, chem poseschat realnyj London". - Nik Frost "Neverojatno stremitelnaja magicheskaja progulka dlja vzroslykh". - The Times

My name is Peter Grant, police officer, apprentice wizard and well dressed man about town. I work for ECD9, otherwise known as the Folly, and to the Murder Investigation Team as 'oh god not them again.' But even their governor, the arch sceptic and professional northerner DCI Seawoll, knows that sometimes, when things go bump in the night, they have to call us in. Which was why I found myself in an underground station at five o'clock, looking at the body of James Gallagher, US citizen and Arts Student. How did he avoid the underground's ubiquitous CCTV to reach his final destination, and why is the ceramic shard he was stabbed with so strongly magical? As the case took me into the labyrinth of conduits, tunnels and abandoned bomb shelters that lay beneath the streets I realised that London below might just be as complicated and inhabited as London above. And worse, James Gallagher's father is a US senator, so the next thing I know, I've got Special Agent Kimberley Reynolds of the FBI "liaising" with the investigation and asking awkward questions. Such as 'just what are you guys hiding down here' and 'how did you conjure that light out thin air'