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Black London

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Black London	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Black London novels are a dark urban fantasy series by Caitlin Kittredge and tell the continuing adventures of a magic talented couple of supernatural troubleshooters in and around London.Twelve years ago, young Pete Caldecott, smitten with her sister MG's boyfriend Jack Winter, lead singer of the Poor Dead Bastards and badass mage, followed him into a graveyard to help him with some magic. It went wrong. Badly, badly wrong. Jack was savaged by what he summoned. Pete ran, back to the Muggle world, finished school and went on to live a somewhat normal life, becoming a Detective Inspector at the tender age of 28, at the cost of her relationship.In the present day, a case she's working on leads her to a tip, and the tip leads her to a filthy fleabag hotel. And in that fleabag hotel sits Jack Winter, with the solution to her problem. Jack Winter whom Pete had thought dead and gone.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })After solving that case, the pair of them pretty much stay together, doing supernatural work for hire and protecting people from the dangers of The Black — the supernatural and magical atmosphere and denizens of the UK.The series currently consists of: Street Magic (2009) Demon Bound (2009) Bone Gods (2010) Devil's Business (2011) Soul Trade (2012) Dark Days (2013).There is also a novella: The Curse of Four (2011).
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Black London / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Black London / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Jack Winter made one to survive his first encounter with Algernon Tredwell, and makes another in an attempt to wiggle his way out of the previous one. When that one fails, he agrees to work with the Morrigan to get out of Hell.
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Black London / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
Black London / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: Jack's magic often requires him to cut himself 'til he bleeds and use the blood to draw sigils.
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Black London / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Black London / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Connor Caldecott, Pete and MG's father, died before the series begins, and Pete thinks of him often.
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Black London / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Black London / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Disappeared Dad: Connor Caldecott, Pete and MG's father, died before the series begins, and Pete thinks of him often. Missing Mom: Lily Caldecott, Pete and MG's mother, and later turns up in Bone Gods with the Order of the Malleus.
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Black London / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Black London / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Hell fucking yes, you fucker. Both Pete and Jack and pretty much everyone they meet swears, and copiously, including the 'c' word.
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Black London / int_3820a9ea	type	Tomboyish Name
Black London / int_3820a9ea	comment	Tomboyish Name: Pete, and with good reason.
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Black London / int_394282f	type	They Fight Crime!
Black London / int_394282f	comment	They Fight Crime!: She's a Detective Inspector with a magic talent she's been denying up 'til now. He's a punk rocker junkie mage!
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Black London / int_39a8fc83	type	The Can Kicked Him
Black London / int_39a8fc83	comment	The Can Kicked Him: Inverted - the bathroom is why they survive in this case.
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Black London / int_3fbbe6ad	type	Power Tattoo
Black London / int_3fbbe6ad	comment	Power Tattoo: Pete gets Jack to get 2 more tattoos, then infuses them with power to keep his second sight at bay so he won't need to drink or shoot up.
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Black London / int_4219a300	type	Mysterious Mist
Black London / int_4219a300	comment	Mysterious Mist: The Black tends to generate mist when supernatural events encroach on the regular human world.
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Black London / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Black London / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Lampshaded by Jack, when he asks where "the arse monkey" is of someone he's being asked to find.
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Black London / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
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Black London / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
Black London / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Subverted in the first book. Of the several endangered children in the first book, they all survive but three of them have been driven insane and magically leached so their eyes are just staring white and blind. In the second, several children ghosts appear.
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Black London / int_5b4573b1	type	Near-Death Experience
Black London / int_5b4573b1	comment	Near-Death Experience: Pete gives herself a mortal wound so she can help Jack fight off the first book's Big Bad and save his life.
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Black London / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
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Black London / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Black London / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Lily Caldecott, Pete and MG's mother, and later turns up in Bone Gods with the Order of the Malleus.
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Black London / int_6ccb6be	type	My Car Hates Me
Black London / int_6ccb6be	comment	My Car Hates Me: Pete drives a Mini Cooper which behaves temperamentally even mundanely, and more so when supernatural creepiness out of the Black is afoot.
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Black London / int_6f07b093	type	Cannot Spit It Out
Black London / int_6f07b093	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: They dance around whether they're a couple; Jack will tell others how important to him Pete is... and Pete will curse Jack out and tell him how worried for him she is, that she cried over him, but so far, neither of them has come right out and said it.
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Black London / int_74e27fbe	type	Magnetic Medium
Black London / int_74e27fbe	comment	Magnetic Medium: If you have a talent that comes with being able to see ghosts, or through the glamour of the fae, or what have you, it's always on and only a limited number of things will mute it or shut it out to give a person enough peace so they don't go insane.
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Black London / int_90d5b651	type	Our Fairies Are Different
Black London / int_90d5b651	comment	Our Fairies Are Different
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Black London / int_93deab19	type	Ominous Fog
Black London / int_93deab19	comment	Ominous Fog: Usually means the Black is about to do something unpleasant.
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Black London / int_a4f2570d	type	Muggles
Black London / int_a4f2570d	comment	Muggles: Anyone who can't sense or deal with the Black. For years, Pete tried to convince herself she was one before finally giving in and accepting it.
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Black London / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Black London / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Jack and Pete take turns... er, well, no, they snark at each other pretty much. Pete just turns it off when she's being professional.
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Black London / int_b85c06f2	type	Glowing Eyes of Doom
Black London / int_b85c06f2	comment	Glowing Eyes of Doom: lots of them.
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Black London / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Black London / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To Jim Butcher, whose name is on the cover recommending the series: Another The Dresden Files shout-out: Soul Trade has Donovan mentioning the show as "about the wizard with the talking skull and the twatty name."
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Black London / int_d22a7df2	type	Troubled, but Cute
Black London / int_d22a7df2	comment	Troubled, but Cute: Jack
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Black London / int_d45cbb16	type	Wonder Twin Powers
Black London / int_d45cbb16	comment	Wonder Twin Powers: Pete's powers work this way (especially if she touches the other person) with a lot of other supernatural magic practitioners, making her something of a hot commodity in the Black.
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Black London / int_dab2f3ee	type	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
Black London / int_dab2f3ee	comment	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Pete: Trying to quit, nicotine patches and all, but wigging out from the Black tends to drive her back to the habit. Jack: Unrepentant smoker who does it as much for the cool as he does because Pete won't allow him hard liquor or his drug habit.
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Black London / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Black London / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Played straight, and justified. Pete doesn't trust Jack to play straight with her as long as he's a junkie so she forcibly detoxes him and keeping clean is one of the conditions for continuing to keep her around. And subverted: the reason Jack (and many other people with supernatural talents) did drugs in the first place was because it blocks his Second Sight so he isn't driven insane by it.
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Black London / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Black London / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: Pete and MG Pete is short for Petunia and MG short for Morning Glory
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Black London / int_feaf5424	type	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious
Black London / int_feaf5424	comment	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: How the reader can tell Jack is most likely being serious and not just flirty, evasive or lying outright — he will call Pete by her entire first name (once he learns it); which name he fully acknowledges is, in his own words, "dreadful".
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