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Foxglove Summer
A Paranormal / Urban Fantasy Novel by Ben Aaronovitch
Book 5 of the Rivers of London Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Detective Mystery,
- Rural Setting
This book is for you if you're into...
- Fish-out-of-water wizard sleuths in sleepy English villages
- Paranormal mysteries tangled with rural folklore and missing children
- Urban fantasy where reality and fairy blur in the countryside
From Little Stack
Don’t worry if you haven’t read any of Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London books yet (though you should, they’re great!), you can easily jump into Foxglove Summer as your first book.
While the previous books in the series are set in the urban setting of London, Foxglove Summer sees series protagonist Peter Grant taken out of his comfort zone to a sleepy village in Herefordshire at high summer.
Local police are loath to admit there might be a supernatural element to the recent disappearance of a group of local children, and that’s where the intrepid Grant comes in, suffering from culture shock after walking the streets of London – where the city barely sleeps – to a quiet country village where all the shops are closed by 4pm.
Like all the books in the Rivers of London series, an essential read.
When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant is sent out of London to check that nothing supernatural is involved.
It’s purely routine—Nightingale, Peter’s superior, thinks he’ll be done in less than a day.
But Peter’s never been one to walk away from someone in trouble, so when nothing overtly magical turns up he volunteers his services to the local police, who need all the help they can get.
But because the universe likes a joke as much as the next sadistic megalomaniac, Peter soon comes to realize that dark secrets underlie the picturesque fields and villages of the countryside and there might just be work for Britain’s most junior wizard after all.
Soon Peter’s in a vicious race against time, in a world where the boundaries between reality and fairy have never been less clear.
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