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Violence
A lot
Supernatural violence; some graphic crime scenes; the magic system involves real danger
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Some
Some sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific pleasure of discovering that the world is stranger and larger than you thought; Peter's ability to be simultaneously a competent police officer and a student of something entirely new
What this book is about
PC Peter Grant is a London police constable who witnesses a ghost giving an eyewitness statement about a murder. His superior officer — DCI Thomas Nightingale, the Metropolitan Police's only wizard — takes him on as an apprentice. Peter has to learn magic while investigating murders in Covent Garden that are connected to a conflict between the supernatural personifications of the Thames's rivers. Ben Aaronovitch's first Rivers of London novel combines procedural police work with London mythology, magic, and the specific voice of a young British-Ghanaian police officer navigating both the institutional rules of the Met and the very different rules of what lies beneath London.
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first Rivers of London / Peter Grant novel by Ben Aaronovitch
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