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What do you do when the main witness to a murder is… dead for more than a century?

“Rivers of London” marks the beginning of Ben Aaronovitch's cult series, in which magic is just another part of police regulations, and ancient gods ride the underground.

My name is Peter Grant, and I was a probationary police officer in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police, and to everyone else as the coppers.

This story began when I tried to take a statement from a man who was already dead…

Peter Grant dreams of becoming an inspector in the London police. After taking witness testimony from a murder witness who turns out to be a ghost, his life is turned upside down. Peter attracts the attention of Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who leads a secret unit investigating supernatural crimes.

A wave of brutal and strange murders floods London. It is no longer the city Peter knows, but a city of wonders and horrors. A city of ancient secrets, haunted by its past. A city where magic always hides around the corner and gods and goddesses walk among people.