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Broken Homes

Rivers of London, Book 4

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Broken Homes

By: Ben Aaronovitch
Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
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Ben Aaronovitch has stormed the best-seller list with his superb London crime series - a unique blend of police procedural; loving detail about the greatest character of all, London; and a dash of the supernatural.

A mutilated body in Crawley. Another killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil: an associate of the twisted magician known as the Faceless Man? Or just a common or garden serial killer?

Before PC Peter Grant can get his head round the case, a town planner going under a tube train and a stolen grimoire are adding to his caseload.

So far so London.

But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle, on a housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans, and inhabited by the truly desperate.

Is there a connection?

And if there is, why oh why did it have to be South of the River?

Full of warmth, sly humour and a rich cornucopia of things you never knew about London, Aaronovitch's series has swiftly added Grant's magical London to Rebus' Edinburgh and Morse's Oxford as a destination of choice for those who love their crime with something a little extra.

Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.

©2013 Ben Aaronovitch (P)2013 Orion Publishing Group Crime Crime Fiction Fantasy Fiction Mystery Police Procedural England Classics Theatre
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Another great and enjoyable read from Mr Aaronovitch. I love Kobna. His narration is excellent. Definitely buying the next book

Great, again!!

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Enjoyed this so much now to start the next one and really want next one

My new addiction

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Peter Grant really comes alive as read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. The quirky characters and London histories threaded through this mystery makes it an entertaining story. Really enjoying this series. If you like a bit of paranormal and love police mysteries then this is the series for you. If this doesn't end up a TV series I'll be surprised.

Thoroughly enjoyed

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Why Leslie? That’s the only question I had at the end.
Peter and Leslie are on the trail of the Faceless Man and a killer. How they are connected and what a local housing estate has to do with them is the puzzle. Throw in Leslie’s new face and you have a complicated story.
The dialogue between the characters is easy to distinguish because of the great narration.
It takes me a while to want to come out of these books, but they are so easy to fall into.

Really!

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loved it..never know exactly what's going to happen..the humour is great. I have read them all...

Entertaining

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