False Value: Book 8 in the #1 bestselling Rivers of London series (A Rivers of London novel)

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And most of the time Nightingale is just ‘hanging around’ in case Peter needs back-up, which is a shame. That kind of knowledge is world-ending knowledge, and now we have the beginning of another overarching plot.

Book 8 in the Rivers of London series, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch.Actually I think I started to lose interest when all the side projects, novellas and graphic novels, began to appear, because I didn’t keep up with them either.

False Value opens with Peter Grant, wizard policeman, starting a new job in a company that does geeky stuff involving data and algorithms. Speaking of combat magic, there's a scene in which Nightingale goes full combat mode on another equally skilled practitioner (Mrs. The action is packed (I stayed up until 6am reading this because I couldn’t put it down) and Aaronovitch’s characters are as clever and interesting as always.It didn't seem to impair his accent abilities, as I thought Reynold's American had notably improved, and a couple of brief appearances by the Irish were delightful. Having nonchalantly skipped a re-read of the previous book in the Peter Grant arc of the Rivers of London series, Lies Sleeping, I was at a bit of a loss when this audiobook began with Peter starting work at a tech company having been suspended from his job with the Metropolitan Police, and The Folly.