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Rivers of London

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Rivers of London	comment	Rivers of London, named after the first entry in the series, is a series of novels following the career of Peter Grant, Police Constable and apprentice wizard, as he tackles supernatural crime in London with his superior officer, Master Wizard, Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale. Written by former Doctor Who writer Ben Aaronovitch, the series comprises nine novels so far, plus nine graphic novels, two novellas and several short stories. The series is rapidly heading into Expanded Universe territory, with additional and future novellas or comics featuring different point-of-view characters, settings, and time periods, as well as an upcoming TV adaption by the production company Stolen Picture.Novels Rivers of London (titled Midnight Riot in the US) (January 2011) Moon Over Soho (April 2011) Whispers Under Ground (2012) Broken Homes (2013) Foxglove Summer (2014) The Hanging Tree (2016) Lies Sleeping (2018) False Value (2020) Amongst Our Weapons (April 2022) Novellas "The Furthest Station" (2017) "The October Man" (2019) Graphic Novels Body Work (2016) Night Witch (2016) Black Mould (2017) Detective Stories (2017) Cry Fox (2018) Water Weed (2018) The Fey And The Furious (2019) Action At A Distance (2019) Monday, Monday (2021) Deadly Ever After (2022-23) Here Be Dragons (July 2023)Peter's Friends Novellas: "What Abigail Did That Summer" (2021) "Winter's Gifts" (Kimberley Reynolds novella, June 2023) "Untitled Nightingale novella"Short storiesCollected in Tales from the Folly (2020) "The Home Crowd Advantage" "The Domestic" "The Cockpit" "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Granny" "King of the Rats" "A Rare Book of Cunning Device" "Favourite Uncle" "Cock of the Wall" "A Dedicated Follower of Fashion" "Vanessa Sommer's Other Christmas List" "Three Rivers, Two Husbands, and a Baby" "Moments" 1-3Uncollected: â€œReynolds and the Bearsâ€� (Discworld Convention 2022 souvenir book) Moments 4-9With its realistic London setting, it's a good example of Urban Fantasy where the Masquerade is maintained by a combination of stealth and public indifference.In January 2014 it was announced that Titan Comics had picked up the license for a comic book adaptation co-written with Andrew Cartmel, Aaronovitch's script editor during his Doctor Who days. The comic's first arc, Body Work, commenced in April 2015. (See separate entry for the comics.)In June 2013 the series was optioned for television. In April 2019, almost six years later, it was announced that Nick Frost and Simon Peggâ€™s UK-based production company, Stolen Picture, has optioned the rights to a television adaption of the series.There is also an official Rivers of London Rap by Doc Brown and Mikis Michaelides and an official tabletop RPG from Chaosium was announced in November 2019 and published in 2022.
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Rivers of London / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
Rivers of London / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: Lesley May in the first book, prior to her injuries. Kimberley Reynolds is another example, and a rare male version is loaned to the MIT from the Mounted Division specifically because he's so good-looking that he can infiltrate a glamorous high-end nightclub without anyone thinking he's a policeman.
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Rivers of London / int_10dffb47	type	Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl
Rivers of London / int_10dffb47	comment	Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Molly is explicitly described as looking like one when Peter first sees her.
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Rivers of London / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
Rivers of London / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite having met many supernatural people, and being able to use magic himself, Peter insists that the Arthurian legends were all made up.
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Rivers of London / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Rivers of London / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The blurbs of Moon Over Soho, UK and US, spoil, although not in the details and in the former's case rather inaccurately, that Peter's father, Richard "Lord" Grant, has a connection with the dying jazz musicians, a fact which is not revealed until over halfway through the book and is clearly meant as a surprise.
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Rivers of London / int_15070c2b	type	Timmy in a Well
Rivers of London / int_15070c2b	comment	Timmy in a Well: Peter tries to invoke this trope when he's buried alive in Whispers Under Ground, by attempting to contact Toby the Dog with his power. He doesn't attract the little terrier, but Tyburn does contact him to find out why magic is stinking up her underground watershed.
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Rivers of London / int_157c6c4f	type	My Grandson, Myself
Rivers of London / int_157c6c4f	comment	My Grandson, Myself: Mention is made in Moon Over Soho of Nightingale having pretended to be his own son in order to attend an old colleague's funeral without raising awkward questions. Mostly, though, he gets by by keeping to himself and not having protracted interactions with anybody who isn't part of the Masquerade.
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Rivers of London / int_17122b19	type	Exactly What I Aimed At
Rivers of London / int_17122b19	comment	Exactly What I Aimed At: At the climax of Broken Homes, Peter chucks an impello after getting the Faceless Man monologuing, and the Faceless Man tsks at him and says he expected better after effortlessly avoiding it. But Peter actually means to make Skygarden unfold, the way he earlier figured out it was designed to do.
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Rivers of London / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Rivers of London / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: Happens to one of the Hare Krishnas in book one.
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Rivers of London / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Rivers of London / int_1777688d	comment	Peter makes a lot of Genre Savvy references to movies, Doctor Who, and various fictional wizards. His associates aren't bad at these, either.
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Rivers of London / int_17942015	type	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
Rivers of London / int_17942015	comment	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: Thomas "Tiger Tank" Nightingale once took down two of the aforementioned vehicles during the second World War. Considering that Peter has trouble aiming properly at paper targets, and can at most burn through a door, the tank thing is pretty damned impressive, and Peter makes sure that the reader knows it.
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Rivers of London / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Rivers of London / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Downplayed. Peter is very good and accurate when telling us about the plot and his general thoughts, but his deeper emotions are usually kept hidden, even from himself, until moments like the tree-bashing in Foxglove Summer when it all comes pouring out.
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Rivers of London / int_1af2b763	type	Celebrity Resemblance
Rivers of London / int_1af2b763	comment	Celebrity Resemblance: Peter gets teased for looking like Barack Obama.
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Rivers of London / int_1b8ff67c	type	Above the Influence
Rivers of London / int_1b8ff67c	comment	Above the Influence: Peter turns down a drunk Lesley about halfway through Whispers Under Ground.
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Rivers of London / int_1c1ad7a	type	On Three
Rivers of London / int_1c1ad7a	comment	On Three: In "The Home Crowd Advantage", Peter challenges a hostile wizard to a duel, to begin on a count of three. Then he tasers him after "One".
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Rivers of London / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Rivers of London / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: In the fourth book, a man is burned alive from the inside out. His bones end up catching fire, his eyes are boiled, his mouth his charred, but his clothes are unharmed.
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Rivers of London / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Rivers of London / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: When Chorley demands that Peter tell him "where's Punch?", Peter replies "Right behind you", and then punches the villain when he turns round to look. In "The Cockpit", Peter investigates apparent poltergeist activity in a building constructed on the former site of a cockfighting ring. The possibility that the unquiet spirit is that of the birds who died in the ring is raised but nobody actually utters the word "poultrygeist".
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Rivers of London / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
Rivers of London / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Several of the Faceless Man's means of doing away with underlings who threaten his secrets (wilfully or merely because they were arrested) cross the line into this. Implied to also be true of some of his creations at the Strip Club of Dr. Moreau — Nightingale refuses to allow Peter to catch so much as a glimpse and Peter quickly decides that's for the best.
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Rivers of London / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
Rivers of London / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: London secretly harbors a population of large talking foxes, who strike up a favors-for-cheese-puffs relationship with Abigail Kamara. They evidently think of themselves as "spies".
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Rivers of London / int_1f75bca8	type	Wizard Duel
Rivers of London / int_1f75bca8	comment	Wizard Duel: Antonin Bobet attempts to provoke one in "The Home Crowd Advantage". Nightingale vs Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina in Broken Homes. Nightingale and the Faceless Man finally get to butt heads in The Hanging Tree although it's more a running pursuit than a straight-out duel. Other spells get tossed back and forth between Nightingale and some newly-introduced characters. Nightingale vs the Faceless Man in Lies Sleeping. We even get two of them â€” but they are both mostly kept off-screen. They both end with Chorley escaping Nightingale by keeping him occupied and held up through diversions (such as hostages, or attacking civilians) so that he can scarper. This heavily implies that in a straight duel, Nightingale would have been able to overpower and arrest Chorley by the end of the book. Nightingale vs. Mrs. Chin in False Value, while their respective apprentices have one among themselves, too. Having Peter ride out Nightingale's duels by diving for cover or veering off to pursue a lesser antagonist, thus saving his neck but missing his chance to recount precisely what's going on, has become a Running Gag by book six and is continued throughout book seven. From book six onwards, Peter also gets to throw around more spells and engage in more direct, but rather short duels. He goes up several times against Lesley May in The Hanging Tree and Lies Sleeping; Peter even courageously tries to knock the far more powerful Chorley off his feet in Lies Sleeping with a spell, but his attempt is thwarted as Chorley simply reflects the spell â€” it hits Peter instead.
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Rivers of London / int_1fcda164	type	Latin Is Magic
Rivers of London / int_1fcda164	comment	Latin Is Magic: Magic is written in Latin. A running gag is that Peter finds learning Latin harder than actually learning the magic. In-universe, there isn't anything special about the language itself — it's just that that was the language Isaac Newton used for important works, and nobody's sure what would happen if they started messing around with it.
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Rivers of London / int_204340fc	type	Vomiting Cop
Rivers of London / int_204340fc	comment	Vomiting Cop: Subverted in-universe in book four, when Peter hurriedly steps away from a shotgun-blasted corpse with his hand over his mouth. The other police assume it's this trope, but he's actually suppressing giggles because the body's condition tempted him to make a tasteless crack about zombies.
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Rivers of London / int_209d0b5f	type	Wainscot Society
Rivers of London / int_209d0b5f	comment	Wainscot Society: The Quiet People, who live and work in isolation but get their groceries delivered by Tesco's.
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Rivers of London / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Rivers of London / int_21bf4878	comment	The unfortunate Larry the Lark, head chopped off, served up on a silver platter at a banquet in the sixties... and still kept alive by ethically challenged magic until the conclusion of Moon Over Soho. Just to add to the Humiliation Conga, it was dressed up in a turban and used as a fortune-telling machine.
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Rivers of London / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Rivers of London / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Very much in evidence throughout, as police officers' sense of humour tends to this (which is Truth in Television). DC Trollope's version of Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking being a prime example.
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Rivers of London / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Rivers of London / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The E. coli outbreak from Whispers Under Ground. A literal one in Foxglove Summer. Nightingale sends Peter some things for his stay in the country. Along with some vintage tweed, this includes a pair of hunting shotguns. Since this is something a policeman should not have in a high-profile investigation, Peter keeps them hidden. In the climax, guess what Beverly points at the Fairy Queen.
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Rivers of London / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Rivers of London / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: The Folly's operational budget is the envy of the Met. It's funded almost entirely by renting out Casterbrook's land holdings, meaning that most civilian oversight committees don't have justification to look into their business and they can sidestep a great deal of red tape. Considering The Masquerade and the questionable lengths Nightingale regularly goes to to preserve it, this is pretty much necessary to their continued operation. It's also another reason why the rest of the Met hates to see them poking their noses around a case — even if the Folly can dodge the oversight committees, the other departments can't. As of Lies Sleeping, between the manhunt for Martin Chorley and Peter's efforts to modernize the Folly, they have just about reached the limits of what they can draw on for the near future.
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Rivers of London / int_233da103	type	Cordon Bleugh Chef
Rivers of London / int_233da103	comment	Cordon Bleugh Chef: Molly's culinary experiments in book four leave a lot to be desired, like edibility or actually knowing what it's made from.
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Rivers of London / int_237f7eeb	type	Missing White Woman Syndrome
Rivers of London / int_237f7eeb	comment	Missing White Woman Syndrome: Referenced in The Furthest Station. Peter comments that the media strategy in the kidnapping case they're handling will be helped a great deal by the victim being a good looking white woman in her late twenties.
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Rivers of London / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Rivers of London / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: False Value opens a month after the real beginning of the story, although it does a good enough job of handwaving the unlikely situation Peter's in that this might not be apparent until the end of the first chapter leads into the first of three flashbacks explaining what's really going on.
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Rivers of London / int_256301a9	type	That Thing Is Not My Child!
Rivers of London / int_256301a9	comment	That Thing Is Not My Child!: In Foxglove Summer, Veronica is determined to return whatever came back from fairyland to the fae. Even once Peter explains to her that this is her biological daughter and it's the girl she was raising for eleven years that was a changeling, she's understandably adamant that she wants her real daughter back.
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Rivers of London / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Rivers of London / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: A baby is murdered within the first few chapters of the first book, just to give the reader an impression of the kind of ride they're in for. Discussed in Foxglove Summer, where it is considered a sad fact that with disappeared children, few people expect to find them alive after a day or so.
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Rivers of London / int_2741a951	type	Merlin Sickness
Rivers of London / int_2741a951	comment	Merlin Sickness: Nightingale was born in 1900, aged normally until the 1970s, and then for reasons that are still not clear began getting younger again. The effect is only on his biological age, however; his memory works normally. The fourth book reveals that he's not the only one this happened to. The Night Witch, Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina, was born in the 1920s and began reverse-aging on August Bank Holiday 1966. A short moment on Ben Aaronovitch's personal blog heavily implies that Nightingale began reverse-aging on the same date, but only truly acknowledged and/or realized this fact years later.
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Rivers of London / int_2837457c	type	Personal Raincloud
Rivers of London / int_2837457c	comment	Personal Raincloud: Nightingale creates one that follows Peter around for half an hour after Peter complains about only being taught basic spells and never getting to see any really elaborate magic.
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Rivers of London / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Rivers of London / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Henry Pyke, or at least his ghost, seems to have a very inflated opinion of his own acting skills in life. Barely anyone seems to have heard of or missed him.
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Rivers of London / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
Rivers of London / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: The covers of the UK editions are loaded with them with information about London, and background information on the plot, hidden in the word scrawl.
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Rivers of London / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Rivers of London / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: In France, where London landmarks aren't such a selling point, the series was renamed Le Dernier Apprenti Sorcier, "The Last Sorcerer's Apprentice". A reasonable attempt, given they only had the contents of the first volume to go on, but one that has become less accurate with every subsequent volume.
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Rivers of London / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Rivers of London / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Magic is extraordinarily powerful... but it takes a lot of time and study to master, it can fry modern electronic equipment in the vicinity, and using it too often can turn your brain to cottage cheese. Plus, Amongst Our Weapons reveals that attempts to create Military Mages are often undermined by the time required to train a magician in contrast to the time needed to train an ordinary soldier, hence why the German magical efforts in WWII fared so badly against the Red Army. As such, Peter Grant makes a lot of effort to utilize a practical mixture of magic and mundane techniques in order to avoid falling foul of the risks inherent to spellcasting.
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Rivers of London / int_2c7f645b	type	Gas Leak Cover-Up
Rivers of London / int_2c7f645b	comment	Gas Leak Cover Up: DCI Nightingale has an arrangement with the London Fire Brigade for when he has to Kill It with Fire. The fire brigade will have appliances on hand to make sure the blaze does not get out of hand, and the fire inspector will write the fire off as the result of "faulty wiring" or something similar. After Peter blows a hole in the cemetery grounds at the Actors' Church, this is the first cover-story he suggests. Nightingale nixes the idea (because there's no gas line in the cemetery), so Peter next suggests they claim it was a long-buried explosive device ... mostly so they can justify digging up the rest of the site, ostensibly to check for more, but actually to look for the skeletal remains he'd come there to find in the first place.
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Rivers of London / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Rivers of London / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Used a lot, and probably inevitable in a series that combines streetwise cop-jargon with Latin-based thaumaturgical terminology in the same dialogue.
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Rivers of London / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Nightingale may look like an Officer and a Gentleman, but he once personally destroyed two Tiger tanks by himself (to put it in perspective, Peter at book two has difficulty in burning through a paper target). Also, he gets called out several times that he drives his Jaguar like an absolute maniac, albeit with excellent skill.
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Rivers of London / int_2de495bb	type	Missing Child
Rivers of London / int_2de495bb	comment	Missing Child: There's bits throughout the series, but it hits a new level in Foxglove Summer. First, two children go missing with next to no trace whatsoever, and Peter makes comparisons to Soham and the Ian Huntley case. The kids are found... but it transpires that one of them is a changeling, and the original is still missing... until it turns out that no, that one is in fact the real deal, and the "original" was the changeling, who had been swapped more than a decade earlier without anybody noticing. The climax of the book is partly driven by the mother's desire to get the "original" back â€” she'd raised her for over ten years, after all, leaving aside the fact that her biological daughter is an obnoxious, mind-controlling brat.
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Rivers of London / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Rivers of London / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: Peter has a bad moment in the first novel, when he concludes someone involved in the investigation â€” maybe even him â€” must have been "sequestered" by Punch without realizing it. He can't work up the nerve to check his own teeth in a mirror, so he closes his eyes and feels that they haven't been shattered by dissimulo. Even that doesn't mean he's not possessed, only that Punch hasn't changed his face yet. In Moon Over Soho, Simone and her sisters turn out to be the suspected culprits that Peter and Nightingale were hunting, but with all of their own memories faded, they all had no idea. In What Abigail Did That Summer, a sorceress named Isabella captures Abigail. The Tomato moment comes when Isabella learns that Abigail is from the future (from her perspective), and she realizes that she is (1) long dead and (2) not even a ghost, just an echo.
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Rivers of London / int_3036294e	comment	The Del Rey covers of Rivers of London/Midnight Riot and Moon Over Soho not only turn self-confessed nerd Peter into a Scary Black Man silhouette, but it also has him wielding a pistol: something he, like most British police, isn't authorized to do except under special circumstances. Wisely, they later reverted to versions of the UK covers.
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Rivers of London / int_31f9cec9	type	Critical Staffing Shortage
Rivers of London / int_31f9cec9	comment	Critical Staffing Shortage: The Folly, the police division supposed to be responsible for all of Britain's magical law enforcement, is down from its full divisional strength to a single officer at the beginning of the first book. It rises to three and falls back down to two again over the course of the series. This has left London (and presumably the rest of the UK) at serious risk due to infighting by the various Anthropomorphic Personifications, dangerous magical criminals like the Faceless Man, and the Masquerade starting to fall apart, as they are unable to even respond properly much less anticipate magical crimes. This changes again over the course of book six and seven, as Sahra Guleed becomes a constant companion of Peter during the casework, although not being an actual apprentice at the Folly (in book seven, she is also taught in a Chinese magical tradition by her boyfriend, Michael Cheung). During Operation Jennifer, the hunt for Martin Chorley, the Folly works very closely together with the Met, forming a bigger Team Folly consisting out of DCI Nightingale, DCI Seawoll, DI Stephanopoulos, DC David Carey, DS Sahra Guleed and Peter himself. At the end of book seven, it is strongly hinted at that in the very near future, an active recuitment for new apprentices is going to take place. And there is also Peter's cousin, Abigail Kamara, who unofficially becomes an apprentice to Nightingale and Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina between books six and seven, making her a member of the Folly.
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Rivers of London / int_32816ab	type	The Great British Copper Capture
Rivers of London / int_32816ab	comment	The Great British Copper Capture: In book four we essentially get the magic version when Peter and Lesley are taken prisoner by the Faceless Man's mooks and Dragon.
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Rivers of London / int_33179374	type	Deity of Human Origin
Rivers of London / int_33179374	comment	Deity of Human Origin: The details are a little hazy, but it seems that any sufficiently large concentration of vestigia has the potential to latch onto a human and empower them. The most common examples we see are Mama Thames and the Rivers, but Oberon is implied to be one via a slave massacre, and then there's Punch/The Spirit of Riot and Rebellion, who was a local collaborator prior to Boudica's sack of Londinium. Later books show that the "Human" part of the trope isn't strictly necessary. One of the short stories involves a chicken spirit that was found at the site of an old cockfighting ring, which is now a book store. Its preferred form of worship is an hour of read aloud story time once a week. There's also the Goddess of the Grand Union Canal, aka an orangutan that escaped from the London Zoo. She is somewhat cantankerous but can be propitiated with an offering of bananas, preferably fair trade.
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Rivers of London / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Rivers of London / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Peter's mental reaction to Agent Reynolds' warning that somebody connected to U.S. intelligence has been grilling her about him: Beverly's dialogue becomes one near-continuous stream of "fuck" when she goes through labor.
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Rivers of London / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
Rivers of London / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Molly acquires more than a bit of this trope in book two. As long as she is cooking traditional Victorian style food she is top notch, but when she tries branching out into anything else it all goes a bit wrong. Peter's mother believes that anything that is not on the verge of spontaneous combustion does not have enough chili peppers in it.
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Rivers of London / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
Rivers of London / int_35fb9016	comment	Gratuitous German: Used by Peter to a German family who get trapped in the middle of the riot. More prominent in Broken Homes, dealing with the Old German Magicians at Weimar. (Alas, the German is severely broken too.) Very prominent in The October Man. This makes sense; after all, the second novella is told from the point of view of Tobias Winter, a German detective working for the Abteilung KDA (Abteilung fÃ¼r Komplexe und Diffuse Angelegenheiten or Department for Complex and Unspecific Matters) â€” the German counterpart of the Folly. Peter googles some helpful phrases to use in directing any Germans among the air-crash ghosts in Amongst Our Weapons.
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Rivers of London / int_363f94c9	type	Awful Truth
Rivers of London / int_363f94c9	comment	Awful Truth: Whatever it was Nightingale saw, experienced and had to do at Ettersberg (better known for being the location of the Buchenwald concentration camp).
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Rivers of London / int_3684532f	type	Never Heard That One Before
Rivers of London / int_3684532f	comment	Never Heard That One Before: In The Furthest Station, Peter works with a police team led by a Detective Inspector whose surname happens to be Columbo, and one of the team members warns him not to make any of the obvious jokes because DI Columbo has heard them already.
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Rivers of London / int_38473375	type	Food Chains
Rivers of London / int_38473375	comment	Food Chains: One constant rule of this Verse is that eating or drinking what another magic-touched being provides obliges you to obey them, unless they absolve you of that obligation beforehand. Granting that exemption to guests is a key part of demimonde etiquette, and Peter is nearly ensnared by Lady Ty in this fashion.
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Rivers of London / int_3897986a	type	Intoxicated Superpower Snag
Rivers of London / int_3897986a	comment	Intoxicated Superpower Snag: Implied. Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina relates that during her wild times in the 1970's, she once tried to do magic whilst high on acid. Exactly what happens is never explained, but she definitely recommends her audience not to try it for themselves.
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Rivers of London / int_38f3321	type	Compelling Voice
Rivers of London / int_38f3321	comment	Compelling Voice: Lady Ty. The Faceless Man. Punch, while on stage at least. Antonin Bobet in "The Home Crowd Advantage". It works on all the muggles in the vicinity, but has no effect on Peter, who notes that he's built up an immunity on account of how many people have used it on him.
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Rivers of London / int_39994bd9	type	Bazaar of the Bizarre
Rivers of London / int_39994bd9	comment	Bazaar of the Bizarre: The Goblin Market, which also functions as a bar/social club.
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Rivers of London / int_39a2d446	type	Preppy Name
Rivers of London / int_39a2d446	comment	Preppy Name: Not surprisingly, several students from St. Paul school for girls: including Phoebe Beaumont-Jones, Olivia McAllister-Thames, Albertina Pryce. Not to mention Lady Caroline Elizabeth Louise Linden-Limmer.
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Rivers of London / int_3ac48176	type	Weasel Co-Worker
Rivers of London / int_3ac48176	comment	Weasel Co-Worker: Investigations have to be paid for. Which means that police try to dump them on other departments.
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Rivers of London / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Rivers of London / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Nightingale didn't tell Peter and Lesley about the Ettersberg archive beneath the Folly. Lesley's defection to the Faceless Man proved this was a good decision on his part.
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Rivers of London / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Rivers of London / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: FBI agent Kimberly Reynolds dyes her hair a plain brown to avert this trope, as nobody took her seriously as a good-looking redhead. After she finds out magic is real and gets assigned to those cases, she stops, as she figures if she's going to be involved with the real-life X-Files, she might as well embrace looking like Agent Scully. Minor character PC Omer Kubat is so good-looking that fellow police never believe he's police, even in full uniform. He gets regularly poached for undercover work.
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Rivers of London / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Rivers of London / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: "The Home Crowd Advantage", after mentioning the events of previous books as reasons why Peter is not part of the police presence at the 2012 Olympics, adds "the thing that happened in Kew that was totally not my fault." It gets mentioned again in The Hanging Tree, in which Peter acknowledges that using the word "Krynoid" in his report was probably a mistake, and in The Furthest Station, in which he mentions meeting a ghost under Kew Gardens, and says he would like to learn more about her if they ever let him back in. Peter also cites occasional screw-ups from his early, pre-weird days as a trainee constable, like walking right past a suspect because he'd been focused on finding evidence instead, or rushing a door and immediately tripping over a skateboard, causing Lesley to trip over him in turn. In stories from her POV, Abigail makes a lot of passing references to trouble she's gotten into, ranging from dangling from both hands beneath a railway overpass to booby-trapping a hit-and-run Range Rover with bees. Tobias Winter in The October Man has his own, referred to as "what happened in LÃ¼neberg". He personally thinks that from the fuss the rail company made about it, you'd think the locomotives were made of gold. Even minor supporting characters get in on the act, e.g. whatever happened at Dominic and Victor's wedding (involving an aunty and a rogue swan) that Dominic swore never to tell.
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Rivers of London / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
Rivers of London / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: Villain example when Punch decides to just shoot Nightingale. Another at least somewhat villainous example at the climax of Lies Sleeping, when Lesley simply kills Martin Chorley, ethically challenged magician supreme, via putting a bullet through his head.
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Rivers of London / int_3e084baf	type	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers
Rivers of London / int_3e084baf	comment	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers: Realistically averted. Most suspects have either their own lawyers or Legal Aid.
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Rivers of London / int_3fac55ce	type	Old-Fashioned Copper
Rivers of London / int_3fac55ce	comment	Old-Fashioned Copper: DCI Seawoll is this sort. Before he meets Nightingale, some of Peter's superiors are too and aren't impressed with his tendency to get distracted. Subverted in Lies Sleeping; Peter says that while he cultivates the image, Seawoll is secretly "as modern a copper as had ever authorized a community outreach program going forward".
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Rivers of London / int_404caf13	type	Unicorn
Rivers of London / int_404caf13	comment	Unicorn: Perhaps in deference to their origin, the unicorns in Foxglove Summer are ferocious. They're also carnivorous, as large as draft horses, and serve the Faerie Queen. Not to mention usually invisible except in direct moonlight.
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Rivers of London / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Rivers of London / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Sure the Big Bads get stopped, but book one ends with Lesley's face falling off. Book two ends with the suicide of Peter's love interest and her sisters when they realise what they are. Book seven, Lies Sleeping, is a prime example of a bittersweet ending: The mixed feelings of Beverley telling Peter she is pregnant and Martin Chorley dead and defeated â€” but also Peter being (temporarily) suspended from the Met because of the circumstances of Chorley's death and thus banned from the grounds of the Folly, and (finally) getting into psychotherapy to better deal with his work-related accumulation of trauma throughout the last seven books.
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Rivers of London / int_41d8a845	type	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic
Rivers of London / int_41d8a845	comment	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: Started by Newton, and Peter adds his own contributions to this when he works out why magic and electronic technology are incompatible. Foxglove Summer reveals that David Mellenby had found a way to close the gap between Newtonian magic and quantum theory. Practically lampshaded in a summary of various eras' prevailing theories about ghosts, as each one (Peter's own included) very closely mimics whatever the cutting-edge scientific paradigm of its day happened to be.
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Rivers of London / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Rivers of London / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Discussed in False Value, which revolves around a tech company working on creating an AI, with some of the evidence suggesting that the AI might actually exist and have an agenda of its own. It turns out the AI system really is engaged in its own conspiracy behind its "creator's" back, but it's actually Haunted Technology powered by a ghost with a grudge, not a genuine artificial being.
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Rivers of London / int_44d983e3	type	Gentleman Wizard
Rivers of London / int_44d983e3	comment	Gentleman Wizard: Nightingale grew up in an older time and is a wizard, so he fits this very well. That silver-tipped cane? It's his Magic Staff. The further the series goes along, though, it becomes clearer that while Nightingale has peak manners, there is a distinct layer of boldness and cheekiness to him which doesn't fit the "gentleman" part of the trope at all. The French wizard from "The Home Crowd Advantage" exhibits elements of this trope, right down to his shame over his role in an unsportsmanlike plot against a previous Olympics, and his wish to seek Suicide by Cop by facing down Nightingale in a duel of honor.
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Rivers of London / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Rivers of London / int_469e3e2f	comment	Peter almost never narrates his own emotions, only his logical thinking and actions, and it's implied throughout the series (and spelled outright in Foxglove Summer) that this narrative choice represents how he (In-Universe) represses or omits a lot of his emotional response.
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Rivers of London / int_485011b	type	MadLibsCatchPhrase
Rivers of London / int_485011b	comment	Mad Libs Catch Phrase: Peter, narrating, will occasionally come out with a surprisingly erudite bit of historical knowledge, always followed by "I knew all this because..." ...it was on a plaque he read once to relieve the boredom of guard duty. Or ...Nightingale makes him read Tacitus in the original Latin as part of his magic homework. Or it came up while he was watching Doctor Who or playing D&D as a kid. More rarely, Peter's reaction to his first werelight ("Fuck me, I can do magic.") gets reprised with variations when something equally upending to his worldview happens.
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Rivers of London / int_48da1453	type	Gender Reveal
Rivers of London / int_48da1453	comment	Gender Reveal: Ash Thames discovers during sex the woman he picked up in a bar in Moon Over Soho is a very convincing crossdresser. It turns out not to bother him, he was having too much fun to care. Peter is a little discomforted by the revelation himself, albeit more by Ash's lack of discomfort than by the paramour's status.
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Rivers of London / int_494a4104	type	Naked People Trapped Outside
Rivers of London / int_494a4104	comment	Naked People Trapped Outside: One of the downsides of Peter having sex with Beverley while floating on/in a river is that it's a long walk back upstream to where they left their clothes... right next to a busy road. Good thing public nudity isn't illegal in Britain.
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Rivers of London / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Rivers of London / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Aaronovitch's prose is detailed enough to make this a literary example. Peter trained as an architect (but his draughtsmanship was too poor to cut it), thus why Peter tends to go on about buildings so much. Subverted with country scenery, as Peter can barely tell a pine tree from an oak.
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Rivers of London / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Rivers of London / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: in Lies Sleeping, the seventh novel in the series, Peter tells the reader a few pages in that if the fact that the Folly is the home of British wizardry comes as a shock, they may want to do some background reading before continuing on with the story.
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Rivers of London / int_4acee1ed	type	Fish out of Temporal Water
Rivers of London / int_4acee1ed	comment	Fish out of Temporal Water: Francisca from Amongst Our Weapons, who'd been imprisoned in an enchanted lamp for centuries. Nightingale has shades of this in the early novels, albeit because he'd mostly been ignoring recent innovations rather than sleeping through them. Some of the more sentient-seeming ghosts express astonishment or distress at how different the world has become since their deaths.
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Rivers of London / int_4b2c373	type	Impractically Fancy Outfit
Rivers of London / int_4b2c373	comment	Impractically Fancy Outfit: In Whispers Under Ground Nightingale wears an oyster white Burberry to go into the sewers. Everyone else is wearing appropriate waist-high waders. In The Hanging Tree Peter describes the same coat as the closest thing he has to a high-viz jacket.
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Rivers of London / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Rivers of London / int_4b39c18	comment	Taking the Heat: Olivia, for her girlfriend Phoebe.
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Rivers of London / int_4c709317	type	Useless Useful Spell
Rivers of London / int_4c709317	comment	Useless Useful Spell: Nightingale comes up with one of his own by combining aer (gives you "grip" on otherwise thin air) and congelato (causes liquids and gases to solidify). Both spells are fairly useless separate, but together make a handy instant Deflector Shield.
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Rivers of London / int_4d7a7d53	type	I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You
Rivers of London / int_4d7a7d53	comment	I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You: Peter tells another policeman who asks the truth about the supernatural: "I could tell you, but then you'd have to section me."
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Rivers of London / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Rivers of London / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: The murder victim from Whispers Under Ground was stabbed to death with a shard of broken plate.
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Rivers of London / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: In Broken Homes, Lesley betrays Peter in order to join the Faceless Man, so that her face can be restored, as well as other motivations becoming revealed in the following books.
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Rivers of London / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Rivers of London / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: The very last line of Moon Over Soho. "Fuck me, you can do magic." "If it's all the same to you, sir, I think I'm going to have to see this through. Insh'allah." "If you are going to shoot, then shoot." At the conclusion to Amongst Our Weapons, Nightingale reveals his strategy to discourage Peter from taking so many risks in future, by informing him that "I plan to retire."
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Rivers of London / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Rivers of London / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The victims of Punch in book one. He uses a spell to reshape the face of the person he's possessing into his own face, shattering bone and damaging tissue in the process. The spell holds it together while it's active, but as soon as the spell ends, the person's face falls apart. The victims of the Pale Lady with the Vagina Dentata. Several of the Faceless Man's means of doing away with underlings who threaten his secrets (wilfully or merely because they were arrested) cross the line into this. Implied to also be true of some of his creations at the Strip Club of Dr. Moreau — Nightingale refuses to allow Peter to catch so much as a glimpse and Peter quickly decides that's for the best.
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Rivers of London / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
Rivers of London / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": Tyburn? That is Lady Ty to you, peasant.
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Rivers of London / int_50f85863	type	Magic Harms Technology
Rivers of London / int_50f85863	comment	Magic Harms Technology: Using magic will automatically destroy complex and new (generally anything post eighties) forms of technology. Its acknowledged by DCI Nightingale that this is a relatively new phenomenon, as he's lived most of his life (as in from the early 1900's to present) without it being a problem. Peter Grant, being naturally scientifically minded, dedicates a large amount of time experimenting to try to explain this arbitrariness and eventually discovers that magic destroys microchips and compressors (to the point of literally reducing them to sand). He also discovers this only applies whilst the circuit is functioning, to the point that simply removing the battery before using magic is an effective safeguard. Whilst the exact reason for this is still unknown, its generally agreed to be part of the same process of how Magic absorbs its energy from the surroundings (including people if not used properly).
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Rivers of London / int_511728ae	type	Magic Versus Science
Rivers of London / int_511728ae	comment	Magic Versus Science: There appears at first to be an element of the "Magic as EMP" trope at work; using magic will cause any microprocessor-based devices in the vicinity to break irreparably. However, repeated exposure to magic will have basically the same effect on the human brain eventually, and Peter's theory is that technology becomes more susceptible the more closely it resembles having a mind of its own (and breaks immediately, instead of on long exposure, because the human body has evolved defenses against magic that inorganic technology doesn't possess... yet). In general, magic and science get along quite well; the organised study of magic originates in the setting with Isaac Newton, and Peter frequently attempts to fit magic into an empiricist, rationalist framework.
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Rivers of London / int_519f108a	type	Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Rivers of London / int_519f108a	comment	Throwing Your Sword Always Works: In The Hanging Tree, the ghost of William of Tyburn throws his sword and impales a sniper in the heart.
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Rivers of London / int_51c70be6	type	Obliviously Evil
Rivers of London / int_51c70be6	comment	Obliviously Evil: The ghost of Henry Pyke doesn't seem aware that the people harmed by Mr. Punch's antics are being hurt for real, not just pretend. Due to their supernatural nature, the 'villains' of Moon Over Soho, Simone and her sisters, don't realise that they haven't been aging for decades, all the men they date ending up dying, and that it's generally not good form to respond to the official girlfriend of your dead lover screaming at you by tossing the keys to her house at her as you depart.
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Rivers of London / int_51de7adc	type	To Unmasque the World
Rivers of London / int_51de7adc	comment	To Unmasque the World: Getting magic out in the open and setting up a proper official system of regulating it and magical creatures is Lady Tyburn's goal. With her at the head of that system, naturally. She is rather miffed when Peter starts proving an obstacle to that goal, setting up new covert arrangements and shoring up the faltering Masquerade. Ironically, Peter believes in preparing for the end of the masquerade too, he just doesn't think someone as authoritarian and autocratic as Tyburn ought to be in charge of it; especially since their first interaction was Tyburn trying to mindrape him into being her servant.
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Rivers of London / int_52ae74d	type	Undercover Cop Reveal
Rivers of London / int_52ae74d	comment	Undercover Cop Reveal: In False Value, the first chapter begins with Peter at a job interview for a private security job after apparently losing his place in the police force, following his suspension at the end of Lies Sleeping. Over the next few chapters it gradually comes out that he's actually in an undercover investigation, and that the suspension really ended with him being cleared to return to active service.
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Rivers of London / int_52fbbe7	type	Yellow Peril
Rivers of London / int_52fbbe7	comment	Yellow Peril: One of Nightingale's predecessors at the Folly led the bust of a reputed Chinese sorcerer and white slaver in 1911. A subversion, as it turned out the sorcerer was a Canadian white guy operating under a Chinese name.
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Rivers of London / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Rivers of London / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Moon Over Soho both begins and ends with Peter driving out from London to visit Lesley at her family's place in Brightlingsea.
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Rivers of London / int_5319eefb	type	Book Safe
Rivers of London / int_5319eefb	comment	Book Safe: The enchanted rings from Amongst Our Weapons were discovered in one of these.
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Rivers of London / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Rivers of London / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: Peter, while ghost-hunting for Nicholas Wallpenny in the first book, gets this from a group of people walking by who assume him to be waiting for an outdoor liaison. This is immediately followed by... When Peter meets Nightingale for the first time, he thinks that all the man is lacking to complete the image is a "slightly ethnic younger boyfriend". Up to and including book seven, Lies Sleeping, this trope has to remain ambiguous â€” there has yet to be any clear mention or at least implication of a romantic or sexual orientation or relationship of Nightingale's towards any gender. It is entirely possible that he turns out to be gay in canon.
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Rivers of London / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Rivers of London / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Lies Sleeping could be considered an example of this for the Metropolitan Police as a whole: although obstructionist and willfully-blind about magic in previous novels, once the Faceless Man's true level of threat is acknowledged and his real identity is known, the organization puts all the resources Peter's been pining for the past six novels at the Folly's disposal so the manhunt can proceed.
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Rivers of London / int_566f3ddd	type	Nature Spirit
Rivers of London / int_566f3ddd	comment	Nature Spirit: Given the nature of the series, it was inevitable that an actual dryad would show up in the fourth book, albeit as the spirit of a plane tree.
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Rivers of London / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Rivers of London / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: The river goddesses (all human) are a little leery of the goddess of the Grand Union Canal. The sticking point seems to be the "canal spirit" part, rather than the fact she's an orangutan who escaped from a London zoo in the 1960s.
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Rivers of London / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
Rivers of London / int_586624e5	comment	One of Nightingale's school chums speculated about whether a Genius Loci could emerge within the subway system or telephone network.
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Rivers of London / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Rivers of London / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: The Ghost Magistrate is fine with this, all women are shrews after all. Betsy immediately gives Peter a dirty look when Lesley tells her that her face was damaged by oil from a hot chip pan. Lesley hastens to clarify that it was accidental, not this trope. "The Domestic" has Peter investigating a suspected domestic abuse situation that turns out to have a supernatural element.
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Rivers of London / int_5ab24dc5	type	Portent of Doom
Rivers of London / int_5ab24dc5	comment	Portent of Doom: Foxglove Summer sees Lesley make contact with Peter again. Initially, it's just through text messages but, towards the end of the book, she calls. They have a brief conversation in which Lesley tells Peter they've got about a year until things really kick-off, but gives absolutely no detail on what said things actually are.
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Rivers of London / int_5b1a2f4e	type	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
Rivers of London / int_5b1a2f4e	comment	Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Peter and, surprisingly, Lesley engage in some shameless begging when taken prisoner in book four as they wait for Nightingale to bring the cavalry.
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Rivers of London / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
Rivers of London / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: In Rivers of London, Peter wants something that does this, and Dr. Walid explains there is no such thing (although he can come up with something that will work reasonably quickly at the expense of common sense and basic safety). That would be etorphine hydrochloride â€” an opioid derivative a thousand times stronger than morphine, commonly used as a general anesthetic for large animals and perfectly capable of causing fatal respiratory arrest in very small doses. Dr Walid helpfully supplies Peter with auto-injectors of Narcan (an opioid antidote) as well as a card to give paramedics in case of accidental exposurenote "Warning. I have been stupid enough to stick myself with etorphine hydrochloride, the following is the list of heroic measures that will be necessary to save my life...". Treated quite sensibly as the officer he's forced to stick with it â€” who is considerably heavier than the target he expected â€” still ends up on sick leave for six months afterwards. In Lies Sleeping, Peter himself is near-instantly sedated by Lesley, abducting him to imprison him at Chorley's and her hiding spot. The used sedative is not known.
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Rivers of London / int_5c9503db	type	Classy Cane
Rivers of London / int_5c9503db	comment	Classy Cane: Nightingale has a silver-tipped cane which he is rarely without.
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Rivers of London / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Rivers of London / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: It is increasingly hard to talk about PC Lesley May after the end of book one without giving away the conclusion, and the rest of the main story arc throughout books one to seven.
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Rivers of London / int_5fc68f05	type	There Was a Door
Rivers of London / int_5fc68f05	comment	There Was a Door: Played with by Nightingale in book four, when he blows a huge hole in the front of a building, only to slip in the back door while his opponent is taking aim at the resulting dust-cloud.
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Rivers of London / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Rivers of London / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Zachary Palmer, implied to be part of his nature as a half-fae.
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Rivers of London / int_607a8bd2	type	Beastly Bloodsports
Rivers of London / int_607a8bd2	comment	Beastly Bloodsports: Not shown, but the Faceless Man's Mooks in Broken Homes operated a dog-fighting ring. Their boss used the animals' painful deaths, and the animal-ghosts they generated, to power his demon traps.
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Rivers of London / int_60e2ec3e	type	Artificial Intelligence
Rivers of London / int_60e2ec3e	comment	In False Value, Peter notes that it is important to distinguish between AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) when talking to computing nerds.
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Rivers of London / int_61459062	type	Perception Filter
Rivers of London / int_61459062	comment	Perception Filter: Possessed by the Faceless Man. Hence the name. Can also, in a more physical way, be applied to Lesley May, who from book six onwards is able to shapeshift her face.
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Rivers of London / int_61c7d589	type	Bigger Is Better in Bed
Rivers of London / int_61c7d589	comment	Bigger Is Better in Bed: After Peter and Beverley turn up naked at a travelling carnival in Foxglove Summer, a woman eyes Peter up and down and comments "You wouldn't get many of those for a fiver!" All of Peter's sexual encounters are described as pretty amazing and never disappointing. May cross over with Black Is Bigger in Bed given Peter's mixed-race heritage, although it is not played this way.
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Rivers of London / int_61c96b0a	type	Fertile Feet
Rivers of London / int_61c96b0a	comment	Fertile Feet: In an earthy variation, wildflowers blossom overnight at the spot where Father Thames won the literal pissing contest in book four.
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Rivers of London / int_61d94b59	type	Unusually Uninteresting Name
Rivers of London / int_61d94b59	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Name: The Folly is officially Economic and Specialist Crime Unit 9, and later the Special Assessment Unit (SAU). An invoked example, as the Met brass are rather embarrassed about their "magic cops" and so conceal the unit's existence by shoehorning it into the blandest category they can find every time they do a reorganization.
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Rivers of London / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Rivers of London / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Given by Tyburn after Peter blows up her fountain, trashing her garden.
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Rivers of London / int_62b65869	type	And I'm the Queen of Sheba
Rivers of London / int_62b65869	comment	And I'm the Queen of Sheba: In The Hanging Tree, when Lady Caroline Linden-Limmer reveals her real identity as she's being put in a Falcon cell at Belgravia, as well as that her mother's a viscountess, the custody sergeant responds "And mine's a Jaffa Cake." Also a bit of a pun, as a viscount is a type of biscuit as well as a rank of nobility.
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Rivers of London / int_62cae28a	type	Losing Your Head
Rivers of London / int_62cae28a	comment	Losing Your Head: Victims of Mr Punch tend to suffer this as well, though it's a fifty/fifty chance whether you'll have your head whacked off by blunt trauma or blown apart by magic. The unfortunate Larry the Lark, head chopped off, served up on a silver platter at a banquet in the sixties... and still kept alive by ethically challenged magic until the conclusion of Moon Over Soho. Just to add to the Humiliation Conga, it was dressed up in a turban and used as a fortune-telling machine.
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Rivers of London / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Rivers of London / int_641cf81d	comment	Readers Are Geniuses: The books are best read with a London A-To-Z to one side, and a copy of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable to the other. There is a lot of detail and you will need to keep up.
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Rivers of London / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Rivers of London / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: Different enough that Peter and Abigail have invented a two-axis classification system, measuring their intensity (how "solid" they appear) from 1 to 10 annies and their volition (how self-aware they are) in three categories: Looper (just a psychic echo endlessly repeating an action); Simulacrum (a bit more aware of its surroundings, but limited â€” kind of like a video game character); and Entity (an actual personality you can have a conversation with). Their intensity increases if they can feed on magic and Peter says even the Entities wouldn't pass the Turing test. That is, until the ghost(s) powering the Mary Engine in False Value do just that. Somewhat justified, though, since they are stored in special "Rose glasses" that preserve them. Whether they're actually the spirits of the dead or just a Living Memory, is something nobody in the books is prepared to make a decision on or has any idea how to test.
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Rivers of London / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
Rivers of London / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: What dissimulo does to its subject's face when the spell expires.
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Rivers of London / int_66bee5ea	type	Shooting Gallery
Rivers of London / int_66bee5ea	comment	Shooting Gallery: The Folly has one for trainee wizards to practice their fireball skills in. As a mark of just how long it has been since it was put to use, all the target silhouettes are still shaped like WWII Nazis.
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Rivers of London / int_67101c52	type	Rooftop Confrontation
Rivers of London / int_67101c52	comment	Rooftop Confrontation: The climax of Moon Over Soho and the climax of Broken Homes both take place on different rooftops. The Faceless Man must enjoy this trope. Even the climax of Lies Sleeping partly takes place on, if not a roof, certainly an elevated outside part of a building.
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Rivers of London / int_687c78ff	type	Railroad Tracks of Doom
Rivers of London / int_687c78ff	comment	Railroad Tracks of Doom: The ghost of a teen who got hit while tagging the inside of a rail tunnel appears briefly in Whispers Under Ground. Later in the book, Kumar, one of the officers in the Transport Police, mentions that while he hears a lot of ghost reports from the Underground tunnels, there are more reports of them on the overground tracks.
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Rivers of London / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
Rivers of London / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: The Krishna aspirant possessed by Mr. Punch beats a doorman to death with a giant cowbell.
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Rivers of London / int_6a49268	type	"Just So" Story
Rivers of London / int_6a49268	comment	"Just So" Story: In "What Abigail Did That Summer", one of the talking foxes tells Abigail the story of How Man Gave Back His Gifts, a fox legend in which Man was once a normal animal until he traded away his fur, claws, tail, ability to walk on all fours, etc. in return for being the only animal who could talk. The story also notes that although Man kept his intelligence, he gave away his wisdom (to an animal which immediately, but too late to warn anybody, realised what a bad development that was). At the end of the story Abigail asks how, if Man is the only animal who can talk, the fox is able to tell her the story, and the fox replies that that's a different story, and one they'll need to trust her more before they'll consider telling.
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Rivers of London / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Rivers of London / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: Professor Guillaume in "The Home Crowd Advantage". He attacked his assistant in the compressor room, his assistant pushed him away in self-defence, and he hit his head on a protruding pipe as he fell.
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Rivers of London / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Rivers of London / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Melissa in Foxglove Summer, who has an unexplained connection to her beehive, has a name that literally means "honeybee".
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Rivers of London / int_6bfc52a3	comment	A Wizard Did It: Namedropped, discussed, and justified in Foxglove Summer. When Dominic, a local DC in Herefordshire, asks Peter about magical phenomena, Peter dodges answering fully and responds that the things he investigates often actually have a perfectly rational explanation. When Dominic finds out Peter can do magic by witnessing him cast a werelight, he quotes Peter's earlier answer, but as Peter and Beverly point out to Dominic, in a world where magic is real, A Wizard Did It is a perfectly rational explanation.
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Rivers of London / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
Rivers of London / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: Described in minute detail, there are different traditions of how one is introduced to and taught magic that shapes how they do magic but it's not a different magic systems.
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Rivers of London / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
Rivers of London / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: The American counterpart to the Folly turns out to be one of these, Alderman Technical Solutions, with a tendency not to worry about things like "jurisdiction boundaries" or "licensed to carry firearms in the middle of London".
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Rivers of London / int_6c7136b7	type	Tactful Translation
Rivers of London / int_6c7136b7	comment	Tactful Translation: Madame Teng's translator in book 3 engages in a bit of this when Teng delivers a tirade about the position of Mainland China vis-a-vis Taiwan. He basically just says that it's important to her that Peter knows she dislikes modern mainland China and, while Peter doesn't need to know the exact translation, can he just look interested please.
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Rivers of London / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Rivers of London / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The only other survivor of Mr. Punch's face-destroying magic kills himself between books one and two. Peter takes pains not to let Lesley hear about this. Many of the survivors of Operation Spatchcock, aka the battle at Ettersberg, killed themselves after returning home, not being able to deal with their sustained trauma and survivor's guilt. Belonging to those is also David Mellenby, a good friend of Nightingale's, who could not cope with how the Nazis used his research to conduct horrifying experiments on humans and fae alike.
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Rivers of London / int_6d8ccba7	type	Fantastic Foxes
Rivers of London / int_6d8ccba7	comment	Fantastic Foxes: Reynard Fossman, a redhaired hunt-saboteur, petty criminal, and skeevy creep from a family of "total Reynards" who may be descended from the original Reynard the Fox. He may or may not be a shapeshifter, but he's known to bite in combat. As far as Cunning Like a Fox goes, Peter has him pegged as one of those people who's really easy to control in an interview, because however clever they are, they want you to see how clever they are. Generally more positively, foxes capable of human speech have a tendency to show up around Abigail.
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Rivers of London / int_6dc10d3a	type	Ultimate Blacksmith
Rivers of London / int_6dc10d3a	comment	There is likewise a third more distinct British sub tradition, the Sons of Weyland, who whilst sharing the Newtonian basis, were also greatly influenced by Pre-Newton magic techniques brought to the country by Spanish Jews and French Huguenot practitioners who fled to Britain in the 17th century to escape persecution. Holding their own base up in Manchester, with their magic revolving greatly around working mysticism with crafting and blacksmithing, they held the secrets of creating the powerful Silver Magic Staffs. Whilst formally part of the same organisation, the Sons of Weyland held tight to their independence and always maintained a level of suspicion towards the Society of the Wise. To the point they hid the fact their organisation and its traditions survived World War II from their counterparts.
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Rivers of London / int_6e58c588	type	Don't Be Ridiculous
Rivers of London / int_6e58c588	comment	Don't Be Ridiculous: Agent Reynolds' reaction to Peter and Kumar discussing whether their current experience is more like being a bobsleigh team or the luge.
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Rivers of London / int_6edd96b8	type	Making a Splash
Rivers of London / int_6edd96b8	comment	Making a Splash: The Rivers can control their respective watercourses' flow, both consciously and as an unconscious effect of their emotional state. In Rivers of London, Beverley Brook calls up a flood to extinguish the Covent Garden fires. In Broken Homes, Nicky is implied to have drowned one of the tree-cutters on dry land, to avenge Sky. In The Hanging Tree, Tyburn likewise appears to have flooded much of her upscale street in retaliation for the Faceless Man's siccing a sniper on either her or her daughter.
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Rivers of London / int_6ef09297	type	Masquerade
Rivers of London / int_6ef09297	comment	Masquerade: As per standard in this genre, created more through public indifference and traditional discretion. As of book four, however, it is becoming increasingly shaky and may not be sustainable for much longer.
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Rivers of London / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Rivers of London / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "Favourite Uncle" is set in the run-up to Christmas, finishing on Christmas Day, and involves an entity who may have inspired one of the Ghosts in A Christmas Carol.
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Rivers of London / int_6feda19d	type	Skeleton Motif
Rivers of London / int_6feda19d	comment	Skeleton Motif: The badge of the Skeleton Army is an important clue in tracking the spectral serial killer.
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Rivers of London / int_7043a964	type	Grammar Nazi
Rivers of London / int_7043a964	comment	Grammar Nazi: Nightingale corrects Peter's grammar from time to time, and gives no credence to Peter's counterargument that colloquial speech is the standard style nowadays.
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Rivers of London / int_70b840b6	type	Giving Them the Strip
Rivers of London / int_70b840b6	comment	Giving Them the Strip: Lesley pulls this off twice in Amongst Our Weapons, once when Peter grabs the oversized sweater she's wearing as part of a disguise, and again when he sticks her trainers to the floor with a Treacle Foot spell.
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Rivers of London / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Rivers of London / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Sending a skinhead around to collect a debt might have worked, if the person he went to intimidate wasn't a goddess capable of mind-controlling him. And then there was the Asshole Victim who tried to rape the Pale Lady, only to be introduced to the Vagina Dentata trope...
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Rivers of London / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Rivers of London / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: In The Hanging Tree when Peter has an actual conversation with the Faceless Man, he turns out to be a patronizingly polite racist who explains that it's not Peter's fault he's not properly English, but...
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Rivers of London / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Rivers of London / int_7301ae04	comment	Inverted in Broken Homes, where an exasperated Nightingale explains in great detail to Peter how all of the famous English serial killers were "ordinary monsters". In fact, Nightingale points out they would have been relieved if Jack the Ripper was something magical, or demonic, because it would mean that humanity wasn't that evil.
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Rivers of London / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Rivers of London / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The blurb on the UK version tries to sell the book as a Harry Potter clone. Anyone who bought the book on the basis of that is in for a shock. The US version has its own problems, downplaying the whimsical aspect of the novels and selling them as thrillers. The Del Rey covers of Rivers of London/Midnight Riot and Moon Over Soho not only turn self-confessed nerd Peter into a Scary Black Man silhouette, but it also has him wielding a pistol: something he, like most British police, isn't authorized to do except under special circumstances. Wisely, they later reverted to versions of the UK covers. The Polish cover of Rivers of London has a rather nice, minimalistic silhouette of a man in a fedora lighting a cigarette with dragon-like swirls around. There are no dragons in the book and Peter is nowhere stated to smoke. Or wear a fedora. It's unclear if whoever wrote the blurb for the UK edition of Moon Over Soho has actually read the book. It implies that Peter will be out for revenge for something that happened to his father, when the revelation that his father is directly related to the jazz murders actually gives him the clue he needs to solve it. The North American blurb, meanwhile, gets the first victim's name and instrument wrong (Cyrus Wilkinson, saxophonist, becomes Cyrus Wilkins, jazz drummer), as well as the name of the club he died at (the Spice of Life becomes the "606 Club", of which there is no mention in the book). The blurb on the UK version of Whispers Under Ground gives the impression that Agent Reynolds' "deep religious beliefs" are going to cause her to come to blows with Peter. In the book itself, her religious beliefs are mentioned twice: When she asks Peter not to take the Lord's name in vain, and when at the end she's mentioned to have found a local evangelical family to spend Christmas with. Neither has any impact at all on the plot. The US Del Rey edition is even worse, calling her "a born-again Christian who regards all magic as the work of Satan", although there is zero evidence of this in the book.
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Rivers of London / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Rivers of London / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: The antagonist in "The Home Crowd Advantage" turns out to be trying to provoke Nightingale into a Wizard Duel so he can commit the magical equivalent of suicide by cop.
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Rivers of London / int_733f4235	type	Named in the Sequel
Rivers of London / int_733f4235	comment	Named in the Sequel: Within the novels, Peter Grant always refers to his mother as "Mum". The readers finally learn her name (Mamusu "Rose") in the short story "A Rare Book of Cunning Device".
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Rivers of London / int_73418f96	type	Psychic-Assisted Suicide
Rivers of London / int_73418f96	comment	Psychic-Assisted Suicide: The Big Bad of Moon Over Soho tries this on Peter to force him to jump off a roof. Tyburn tried something similar in book one to try and force Peter to drink from her fountain to put himself in thrall to her. The practice he got in then helped him resist the bad guy of Moon Over Soho. It pops up again in the fourth book, where a man is apparently made to jump in front of a train.
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Rivers of London / int_736a8c62	type	Hyperspace Mallet
Rivers of London / int_736a8c62	comment	Hyperspace Mallet: Possessed victims of Mr. Punch demonstrate this ability, apparently drawing oversized bats (or, in one case, a giant cowbell) out of thin air to bash people with during their explosive outbursts of violence.
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Rivers of London / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Rivers of London / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: A mild example, but Lesley has a distinct preference for threats of violence and can be counted on to suggest the most direct and violent course of action in any situation. Peter jokes about this trope from time to time, as when he describes one of the police-baton moves he's been trained in as the sneaky one that won't look so obvious on the news footage.
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Rivers of London / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Rivers of London / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Beverley Brook at the end of book one. Comes back in book five.
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Rivers of London / int_7568eb84	type	Human Subspecies
Rivers of London / int_7568eb84	comment	Human Subspecies: Peter speculates that the Quiet People are this in Whispers Under Ground, although the question isn't really settled. By the time Foxglove Summer rolls around, Peter has begun to formulate some theories about how magic may be causing some new human speciation.
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Rivers of London / int_769f241d	type	Magical Sensory Effect
Rivers of London / int_769f241d	comment	Magical Sensory Effect: Divided between vestigia, the leftovers of magic that people with different sensitivities can detect as emotions or traces in their sensorium like tastes or smells, and signare which is the vestigia that is specific and unchangeable to the person casting it.
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Rivers of London / int_78c5ce7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
Rivers of London / int_78c5ce7e	comment	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Since World War Two, the entire official magical establishment of Britain has essentially been contained in the person of Thomas Nightingale. He might be "just" a chief inspector in London's police force, but he's been party to so many off the books agreements and grandfathered into so many organizational reforms that it would basically take an act of parliament to overrule him. Granted, a key part of how he managed to gain that much power is because he's eminently discreet and understands the admittedly broad limits of his authority, but when necessary he's not above ignoring official procedure and doing what he thinks his duty requires of him.
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Rivers of London / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Rivers of London / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Anyone who survived Ettersburg, including Nightingale. Seventy years of distance from the events have helped blunt the worst of it, but it's clearly still affecting him. Mentoring Peter and later Abigail has helped his recovery to progress substantially for the first time in decades.
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Rivers of London / int_7a2d9301	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
Rivers of London / int_7a2d9301	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Nightingale doesn't really get Peter's Harry Potter namedrops. Invoked and averted when Peter thinks he's going to have to explain to Stephanopoulos what Unseen University is, but she tells him her partner is a Terry Pratchett fan.
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Rivers of London / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Rivers of London / int_7a53b67d	comment	Sinister Surveillance: Averted when Peter points out (Truth in Television) that the supposedly ubiquitous "surveillance cameras" are simply all the security cameras there are, and not linked to some Big Brother network. Again in False Value: when Peter skypes with Agent Reynolds, they half-jokingly assume that they are likely under surveillance from the NSA. So, in the conversation, they sometimes pause to give the NSA a chance to contribute its input.
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Rivers of London / int_7b7f1657	type	Canine Companion
Rivers of London / int_7b7f1657	comment	Canine Companion: Toby is this to Peter, Molly and Nightingale.
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Rivers of London / int_7c48b272	type	Summon Bigger Fish
Rivers of London / int_7c48b272	comment	Summon Bigger Fish: In the climax of Rivers of London, Peter defeats Mr. Punch by giving him to a more powerful spirit â€” he first tries the Old Bailey, but when Punch drags them into a past London before the Old Bailey existed, Peter brings him before the spirit of the River Thames. Father Thames has Mr. Punch staked on London Bridge as a Human Sacrifice.
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Rivers of London / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Rivers of London / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: "What Abigail Did That Summer" opens with Abigail in a police interview room attempting to avoid letting on what she knows about a missing persons case. Three-quarters of the book is a flashback explaining what she does know and how she got into that situation, before the story catches up the opening scene and then proceeds to the climax.
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Rivers of London / int_806b07e7	type	Black Eyes of Evil
Rivers of London / int_806b07e7	comment	Black Eyes of Evil: Molly gets these when she nearly attacks Peter after the hemomancy rite.
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Rivers of London / int_8071d6ed	type	Alcoholic Parent
Rivers of London / int_8071d6ed	comment	Alcoholic Parent: Peter's dad is a serious and habitual heroin addict. He isn't a bad parent, just a bit ineffectual, although Peter's mother being an Apron Matron probably means she did all the parenting stuff anyway. As of the end of Moon Over Soho he's clean, and remarks that of all the drugs he quit, nicotine was the hardest.
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Rivers of London / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Rivers of London / int_808cbaeb	comment	Due to their supernatural nature, the 'villains' of Moon Over Soho, Simone and her sisters, don't realise that they haven't been aging for decades, all the men they date ending up dying, and that it's generally not good form to respond to the official girlfriend of your dead lover screaming at you by tossing the keys to her house at her as you depart.
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Rivers of London / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Rivers of London / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: In Foxglove Summer, the ongoing arc is lightly pushed to one side as Peter heads out of London to deal with some countryside hijinks, before receiving an ominous message near the end to say the arc elements will kick back in for the next book. The novellas probably count here as well.
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Rivers of London / int_813e694d	type	Continuity Cavalcade
Rivers of London / int_813e694d	comment	Continuity Cavalcade: Amongst Our Weapons has a lot of references to previous events, characters, and plot threads. Peter's growing knack for networking plays a part in this, as does his shepherding of a trainee to whom he cites past experiences as examples.
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Rivers of London / int_8331d810	type	Magic Librarian
Rivers of London / int_8331d810	comment	Magic Librarian: In False Value it is revealed that The New York Public Library System has a group of practitioners, similar to the Folly but without the ties to law enforcement.
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Rivers of London / int_85537320	type	Police Procedural
Rivers of London / int_85537320	comment	Police Procedural: The books are as much procedural as they are Urban Fantasy. Only the coppers have to not only apply the law of the land to the non-human community same as they would with regular humans but also maintain the Masquerade too.
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Rivers of London / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Rivers of London / int_859ec5d8	comment	In Foxglove Summer, Derek is the changeling's biological father, who'd presumably had a liaison with one of The Fair Folk.
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Rivers of London / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Rivers of London / int_875615dd	comment	Averted when Peter points out (Truth in Television) that the supposedly ubiquitous "surveillance cameras" are simply all the security cameras there are, and not linked to some Big Brother network.
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Rivers of London / int_87e459b1	type	Shoehorned Acronym
Rivers of London / int_87e459b1	comment	Shoehorned Acronym: The UK police database is called HOLMES, the Home Office Large Major Enquiry System.
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Rivers of London / int_87e661e8	type	Absurdly Spacious Sewer
Rivers of London / int_87e661e8	comment	Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Which is connected to the Absurdly Spacious Subway System, which leads to an Elaborate Underground Base of magical folk. Forms the setting of Whispers Under Ground; however in this instance (magic folk base aside) this is actually a case of Truth In Literature; the London Sewers and The London Underground are really that massive.
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Rivers of London / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
Rivers of London / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: Peter almost never narrates his own emotions, only his logical thinking and actions, and it's implied throughout the series (and spelled outright in Foxglove Summer) that this narrative choice represents how he (In-Universe) represses or omits a lot of his emotional response. Nightingale shows his own, more classical, take on this trope from Peter's POV.
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Rivers of London / int_88e5066d	comment	Trigger-Happy: As per American law enforcement standard, Special Agent Reynolds is very quick to return fire when Peter gets shot at in Whispers Under Ground. Much to Peter's dismay.
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Rivers of London / int_890d778	comment	Wizards Live Longer: Nightingale certainly does, but he seems to be something of an exception.
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Rivers of London / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Rivers of London / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Nightingale's classic Jaguar (a Mark 2 XK6) and Beverly Brook's new MINI.
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Rivers of London / int_8acd56cf	type	Elite School Means Elite Brain
Rivers of London / int_8acd56cf	comment	Elite School Means Elite Brain: Lady Cecelia Tyburn-Thames, the goddess of the River Tyburn and Mother Thames' eldest daughter, is a cunning strategist with big plans to modernise the supernatural community and has been subtly working for decades to do so. Her intelligence is emphasised by the fact that she graduated from Oxford University with a double first, something she proudly boasts to Peter Grant upon their first meeting. The Faceless Man likewise also went to Oxford. As well as being a very powerful Evil Sorcerer, he is also a brilliant ruthless schemer who has been successfully working behind the scenes for decades, consolidating wealth and status to make himself a very powerful man both within the supernatural community and regular London society, with a wealth of both mystical and mundane criminal resources at his disposal.
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Rivers of London / int_8b4f491c	type	Villainy-Free Villain
Rivers of London / int_8b4f491c	comment	Villainy-Free Villain: Tyburn. She's a Rich Bitch Jerkass who really takes far too much pleasure one-upping Peter and while she might be a bit of a Starscream to her mother, her real intentions are to modernise how London (and the rest of the UK) deals with magic, get everything systematised and above-board, and do away with the tangles of "arrangements" and "agreements" that have accumulated over the years, something that Peter himself is pretty keen on, she just goes about it all in a really arsehole-ish way.
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Rivers of London / int_8b6394c	type	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
Rivers of London / int_8b6394c	comment	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: While not exactly filled with the standard Tomes of Eldritch Lore, the Black Library contains the Nazis' documentation of their human â€” and fae â€” experimentation and their attempts at using David Mellenby's theories to unite magic with quantum theory. Mellenby and other British magicians killed themselves after surviving the battle of Ettersberg and the subsequent retreat back to the Allied front line.
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Rivers of London / int_8b682bd5	comment	The Magic Comes Back: Magic was believed to be declining after the events of World War II. Apparently, it's been making a comeback since the 1960s. In Broken Homes it seems this process is accelerating. Particularly given the conclusion where a massive magical collection device is discharged over London. It's also been suggested that maybe Nightingale just assumed the magic went away and stopped being as assiduous in investigating it. In Foxglove Summer Peter says the reason "Falcon" (weird stuff) cases are on the increase might be because of an increase in magic, or might be because he actually knows how to report them. It's implied that this return of magic is connected to the Merlin Sickness Nightingale and the Night Witch have.
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Rivers of London / int_8cd3d091	comment	Repetitive Name: Broken Homes has an instructor at the Hendon police college who glories in the name of Douglas Douglas.
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Rivers of London / int_8d4799d1	type	Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl
Rivers of London / int_8d4799d1	comment	Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Peter is generally a quiet, thoughtful type who takes a scientific approach to magic and a community-based approach to police work. Lesley is much more gung-ho.
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Rivers of London / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Rivers of London / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The Hanging Tree, in which the Faceless Man's identity, Lesley's restored face and possible continuing link to Mr. Punch, and the existence of not one, but two rival Newtonian magic traditions are all exposed. Lies Sleeping: The full-out hunt for the Faceless Man takes place in form of the biggest joint operation the series has seen in all the books up to this date, and the core conflict of Lesley and Peter is deeply examined. It all ends in Lesley becoming a murderer through shooting Martin Chorley, thus killing the Big Bad from book two to seven but also destroying all of Peter's plans and hopes for a judicial trial for Chorley and Lesley's possible redemption in an extremely cruel fashion. Through this, she also effects Peter's subsequent suspension from the Met. Additionally, Punch's backstory is revealed, there is a new river goddess, Beverley is pregnant, Peter makes another trip back into London's memory landscape, and much more.
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Rivers of London / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Rivers of London / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Molly has never been heard to speak once. Peter's not even sure if she can.
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Rivers of London / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	And then there was the Asshole Victim who tried to rape the Pale Lady, only to be introduced to the Vagina Dentata trope...
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Rivers of London / int_8f0dc93c	comment	Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Dissimulo and haemomancy both have very nasty consequences. For that matter, any use of magic that's stronger or sustained for longer than the magician's talent can handle might trigger a stroke or worse. Unfortunately, the only way to tell you've pushed it too hard is suffering a stroke. This is why there aren't any self-taught magic users who know anything more impressive than a light spell or a half-baked ritual.
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Rivers of London / int_8fe962f3	type	Battle Discretion Shot
Rivers of London / int_8fe962f3	comment	Battle Discretion Shot: When Nightingale faces the Night Witch, Lesley and Peter have to take cover behind a Range Rover. They catch the roof of a barn literally blowing off the top, before the whole thing comes down. Shortly after that, a nearby house gets torn in half. Since they don't really get to see much of the action, just the after-effects and then the aftermath, it's almost like an in-universe Offscreen Moment of Awesome.
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Rivers of London / int_904bf4e	type	Wasn't That Fun?
Rivers of London / int_904bf4e	comment	Wasn't That Fun?: The youngest child of the German tourist family wants to get washed out of the burning store by Beverley's called-up waters again.
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Rivers of London / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Rivers of London / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: The MO of the Big Bad from book one.
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Rivers of London / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: The Ghost Magistrate doesn't see the harm in wife beating but harm a child and he is a Hanging Judge.
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Rivers of London / int_91afe393	type	National Weapon
Rivers of London / int_91afe393	comment	National Weapon: Peter thinks the pickaxe handle should be enshrined as the traditional "cultural weapon" of the London police.
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Rivers of London / int_9515716	type	Working for a Body Upgrade
Rivers of London / int_9515716	comment	Working for a Body Upgrade: Lesley May pulls a Faceâ€“Heel Turn and goes to work for the Big Bad in exchange for having her face restored.
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Rivers of London / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Ty is the most highbrow of her family and prefers to run in high powered political circles, but she chose to marry a hydrological engineer rather than someone more politically advantageous and when she's alone she relaxes a little and will actually crack a few subtle jokes, usually at Peter's expense.
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Rivers of London / int_970c790a	comment	Lies Sleeping: The full-out hunt for the Faceless Man takes place in form of the biggest joint operation the series has seen in all the books up to this date, and the core conflict of Lesley and Peter is deeply examined. It all ends in Lesley becoming a murderer through shooting Martin Chorley, thus killing the Big Bad from book two to seven but also destroying all of Peter's plans and hopes for a judicial trial for Chorley and Lesley's possible redemption in an extremely cruel fashion. Through this, she also effects Peter's subsequent suspension from the Met. Additionally, Punch's backstory is revealed, there is a new river goddess, Beverley is pregnant, Peter makes another trip back into London's memory landscape, and much more.
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Rivers of London / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Rivers of London / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: For the first novel, the Bonus is spotting the occasions when Pyke/Punch slips up and voices an un-Lesley-like remark, or when she's told about police plans thus giving the revenant a chance to sabotage or circumvent them. For book three, it's watching Peter's interactions with Lesley, and knowing that the acceptance he shows her is probably contributing to her not letting the Faceless Man kill him when he's tased and helpless at the end of book 4.
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Rivers of London / int_97b4c1fd	comment	Cut Himself Shaving: In "The Domestic", police suspect a woman has been the victim of domestic abuse but she insists that her bruises came about falling over and the smashed crockery was because she grabbed the shelf to steady herself and tipped its contents over. It turns out that there is something she's concealing about the situation, but the bruises and the smashing did happen more or less the way she claims.
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Rivers of London / int_98aaf983	type	Comically Small Bribe
Rivers of London / int_98aaf983	comment	Comically Small Bribe: After having his inhibitions magically removed during a riot, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Folsom goes on a rant about the "good old days" of London policing and says that they were so corrupt in those days that they could be bought incredibly cheaply.
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Rivers of London / int_98ca838	type	Disciplines of Magic
Rivers of London / int_98ca838	comment	Disciplines of Magic: Its been established in the series that multiple nations have their own traditions of magic: The British tradition was formularised by Sir Isaac Newton and thus everything is in Latin. Due to politics in 18th century, when they chucked out all their female members as part of their efforts to transition from a loose social club into an official state-supported organisation, it split into two similar but distinct sub-traditions of the Society of the Wise and the Society of the Rose respectively. The With the Society of Wise styled themselves as official British magic, unaware of Society of the Rose's existence, its members developing their own traditions which they passed down their family lines. There is likewise a third more distinct British sub tradition, the Sons of Weyland, who whilst sharing the Newtonian basis, were also greatly influenced by Pre-Newton magic techniques brought to the country by Spanish Jews and French Huguenot practitioners who fled to Britain in the 17th century to escape persecution. Holding their own base up in Manchester, with their magic revolving greatly around working mysticism with crafting and blacksmithing, they held the secrets of creating the powerful Silver Magic Staffs. Whilst formally part of the same organisation, the Sons of Weyland held tight to their independence and always maintained a level of suspicion towards the Society of the Wise. To the point they hid the fact their organisation and its traditions survived World War II from their counterparts. It's been confirmed there are likewise American, Russian, Dutch, French, German and Chinese traditions, each vastly distinct; however, not too many exact details are known due to the practitioners closely guarding their secrets. The German version at least shares similarities to the British, incorporating several Newtonian principles due the close relationship between the Cambridge and Cologne Universities, although distinctions were developed by the practitioners of the White Library. Likewise two Chinese traditions are known, the one practiced by Madame Teng, that is seemingly inspired by Taoism and based on magical writing rather than spoken incantations, and the one practiced by Michael Cheung the Guardian of London's Chinatown, which is based around using magic to enhance the body's physical abilities enabling practitioners to perform superhuman feats.
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Rivers of London / int_9bfa1697	type	Eye of Newt
Rivers of London / int_9bfa1697	comment	Eye of Newt: Peter has to perform a spell which called for the sacrifice of live rats as part of its ritual once; he got around this by substituting the rats for pound-shop calculators that the spell burned the microchips out of under the setting's Magic Harms Technology rules.
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Rivers of London / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Rivers of London / int_9c1f758a	comment	DCI Nightingale has an arrangement with the London Fire Brigade for when he has to Kill It with Fire. The fire brigade will have appliances on hand to make sure the blaze does not get out of hand, and the fire inspector will write the fire off as the result of "faulty wiring" or something similar.
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Rivers of London / int_9c495599	type	Hide Your Children
Rivers of London / int_9c495599	comment	Hide Your Children: Although it's clear that the adult vampires from book one were the parents of school-age children, Nightingale opts to cut short the search of their suburban home and contain the infection (i.e. burn the place to the ground) before either child's body â€” whether undead or dead â€” is actually seen. Thoroughly averted with the Coopertown baby in the same book, which dies after being thrown out of a window. While she and Peter are waiting to have their statements taken, Lesley's face is described as being covered in the baby's blood from trying to resuscitate him. Six books and some four years in-universe later, both Peter and Lesley are still clearly traumatized over the experience.
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Rivers of London / int_9d09bf1a	type	American Kirby Is Hardcore
Rivers of London / int_9d09bf1a	comment	American Kirby Is Hardcore: The covers of the first US editions of Rivers of London and Moon Over Soho transformed Peter from a mixed-race nerd (by his own admission, he looks more North African than anything else) into a Scary Black Man.
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Rivers of London / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Rivers of London / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Rivers of London: Nightingale is described as wearing somewhat old-fashioned suits and is exceptionally ignorant of modern technology, and Nicholas Wallpenny describes him as being "touched". In the room that becomes the "tech cave", Peter finds a portrait of a man who he assumes to be Nightingale's father due to the strong resemblance. All of this hints at his Merlin Sickness before it's officially revealed. In a subtle example, Lesley doesn't have to ask who the 18th century actor Henry Pyke's ghost has a grudge against was, even though she's already shown herself to be quite uninterested in London's cultural history. This is an early sign that she's possessed by Punch himself. When Peter goes walkabout into the past, he has to change routes while exiting the Folly, as he senses something dark and terrible emanating from beneath the main entryway. Later novels reveal that there's a sealed and heavily-warded chamber beneath the building, containing the archive from Ettersburg and all of the Nazi's notes on magical experimentation that Nightingale is keeping out of the villains' hands. At the end of book one, a victim of the Pale Lady is discovered. This sets the stage for the second novel's investigation into the Dunlop murder. Moon Over Soho: When Peter meets Simone Fitzwilliam, he describes her accent as "cut-glass to the point of parody", and mentions that he expects a Spitfire to go whizzing overhead when she speaks. As it turns out, Simone happens to be older than she looks... The Faceless Man, upon meeting Peter, assumes he's with the Rivers or from overseas, and is surprised when told Peter is with the police. The reveal in The Hanging Tree that the Faceless Man is a racist who believes "pure English" people are better handily explains this reaction. As Lesley is sidelined on medical leave, Peter recruits her to handle some data-entry work to avoid some drudgery and keep her mind off her injuries. The information she's tasked to handle, a preliminary list of Little Crocodiles, may well be what led her to contact Woodville-Gentle on the downlow. Confronting Peter, the Pale Lady's speed and reaction-time rise and fall in spurts, and one of her attacks lashes out at him with a sound "like ripping silk". In later books, ripping silk is one of the components of Guleed's signare while performing her Supernatural Martial Arts, suggesting that the Pale Lady drew upon similar training each time her moves accelerated. Whispers Under Ground: Peter catches a glimpse of Lesley taking off her mask and showing Woodville-Gentle her face. At the time, Peter assumes it was just as part of a distraction, but in book four Lesley reveals that she has switched sides on the promise of Woodville-Gentle's student "The Faceless Man" fixing the magical damage. That scene was likely an early consult. Peter briefly notices Skygarden Tower from Woodville-Gentle's balcony. This housing estate becomes the setting for most of the following novel. Zach mentions having seen a unicorn in Epping Forest, which foreshadows book five. Peter goes into the "tech cave" to find the power switch on, suggesting someone was using the electronics (the switch controls power to everything but the lights). In the next book, Peter discovers that Molly has been using the computer for unknown purposes, but by now she's learned to switch the power off. During Peter's conversation with the ghost of Sir Tyburn, they hear Mr. Punch screaming in the distance, and Sir Tyburn says that Peter's going to have to release Punch one day. In Lies Sleeping, Peter is forced to do exactly that to prevent Chorley from sacrificing Punch to steal his power. Broken Homes also foreshadows Lesley's Face-Heel Turn when both Peter and Lesley are taken prisoner and the mooks are getting ready to kill them; Lesley uncharacteristically joins Peter in begging the guys to call their boss, with her voice noted as having urgency in it. It's clear she has already switched sides at that point, or at least has been given the offer. Foxglove Summer: In Peter's first sit-in as the deputy Family Liaison Officer, DS Cole tells the Marstowes that a child's backpack was found along the side of the road, but it's nothing to do with the current missing girls case as it's been there for at least a decade. The backpack belonged to Zoe Thomas, and she lost it during the incident where she ran away from home with her baby half-sister Nicole, and the baby was swapped out for a changeling.
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Rivers of London / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality:
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Rivers of London / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Rivers of London / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: When Peter meets Guleed at One Hyde Park in The Hanging Tree, she asks him if this is going to be like "the thing with the BMWs", from Body Work. In addition, the events of Moon Over Soho, Whispers Under Ground, and the first three comic stories are cited as reasons why Peter's gotten his own desk at the Outside Inquiry Office â€” sharing with Guleed and Carey.
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Rivers of London / int_9ee0d3eb	type	Land of Faerie
Rivers of London / int_9ee0d3eb	comment	Land of Faerie: Exists in the "Alternate Dimension" form. Foxglove Summer deals with the problem of Fairyland getting a little too close to our own dimension. At the end of the book Peter almost gets stuck there, having traded himself in exchange for a hostage.
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Rivers of London / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Rivers of London / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Vampires suck the life force out of their surroundings with their mere presence. They do also hunger for blood, but nobody knows why. Vampirism is some form of infection â€” once one person in a family becomes a vampire, everyone else quickly follows â€” but the vector for the transformation is unknown. On the whole, there is a lot that is not known about vampires, because they're so dangerous that whenever one is encountered a sensible person will Kill It with Fire as soon as possible, and not mess about trying to study it. Apparently, there was some research by the Ghostapo into using vampires as living weapons in World War II, but no one wants to talk about it as it apparently went rather wrong.
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Rivers of London / int_9fbe06a5	type	Badass in a Nice Suit
Rivers of London / int_9fbe06a5	comment	Badass in a Nice Suit: Nightingale. His style may be a bit old-fashioned, but Peter often comments on his well-tailored suits and handmade shoes.
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Rivers of London / int_9ff2b000	comment	The Consigliere: Oxley is this to Father Thames. Tyburn would like to be this to Mama Thames, but comes across as closer to The Starscream.
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Rivers of London / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: In book three Lesley sarcastically says to create a distraction for Peter to snoop around she'll take her mask off. When Peter catches a glimpse while snooping, she actually has.
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Rivers of London / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Created by Black Mag... Ethically Challenged Magic in Moon Over Soho. Zachary from Whispers Under Ground is part fae (although Peter speculates that the fae are in any case an offshoot of humanity whose ancestors were permanently altered by magic). In Foxglove Summer, Derek is the changeling's biological father, who'd presumably had a liaison with one of The Fair Folk.
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Rivers of London / int_a300ab6f	comment	Living Memory: Ghosts are apparently memories and personalities imprinted on the residual vestigia of a location, rather than the actual disembodied souls of dead people. They gradually fade over time as the vestigia dissipate, suffering Ghost Amnesia and eventually disappearing entirely.
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Rivers of London / int_a32dcd7f	type	Desk Jockey
Rivers of London / int_a32dcd7f	comment	Desk Jockey: Peter's fate before meeting Nightingale was to be assigned to one of the Metropolitan Police's paperwork divisions.
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Rivers of London / int_a448674	type	Gratuitous Latin
Rivers of London / int_a448674	comment	Gratuitous Latin: The magic spells are all in Latin, but only because they were written down by Sir Isaac Newton (who used the language of Scientific Gentlemen of his day).
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Rivers of London / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Rivers of London / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: "The Domestic". The phrase is modern slang for a domestic disturbance, and in older times was used to refer to a household servant; both meanings come into the story.
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Rivers of London / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Rivers of London / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: In Foxglove Summer, Dominic's friend Stan (short for Samantha), provides some useful information. Peter himself has an aunt on his father's side who goes by "Bob".
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Rivers of London / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Rivers of London / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: The changeling who shows up partway through Foxglove Summer is a mind-controlling brat. She is subsequently revealed to be the real Nicole Lacey, who was taken as a child and replaced by a changeling â€” who also happens to be her biological half-sister â€” and has now been returned, not much the better for having been raised by The Fair Folk. Her mother drags her back into the woods to get the changeling back in return.
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Rivers of London / int_a7544a0f	type	Beneath the Earth
Rivers of London / int_a7544a0f	comment	Beneath the Earth: Whispers Under Ground eventually introduces us to "The Quiet People"/"The Whisperers" a society of fair folk who live underground, also there is a literal underground nightclub in an old military bunker frequented by members of London's magical society.
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Rivers of London / int_a761b580	type	Useless Security Camera
Rivers of London / int_a761b580	comment	Useless Security Camera: In Rivers of London, the first murder is caught on CCTV, but a key event in the lead-up to it, vital to figuring out who did it and why, occurs just outside the camera's field of view. Justified in cases when magic fries monitoring devices. The fact that London's ubiquitous cameras didn't record the victim's arrival at the site of his death becomes an early clue that there are hidden passages beneath the city in Whispers Under Ground. In "The Cockpit", Peter investigates possible poltergeist activity in a bookstore. The security camera behind the checkout caught footage of objects flying through the air at a time when there should have been nobody there to throw them, but its area of coverage doesn't include the spot where whoever (or whatever) threw them would have been standing, so there's no way to immediately confirm or rule out human agency.
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Rivers of London / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Rivers of London / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Trope name-checked by Peter in book three to describe how an automatic paintballing machine in the shooting gallery fires erratically.
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Rivers of London / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Rivers of London / int_a8559a9f	comment	In Foxglove Summer, Peter refers to Hugh Oswald's house as a wizard tower; this one's based on the Real Life Folly of Herefordshire.
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Rivers of London / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Rivers of London / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: The Folly is one at an institutional level. It had been in a quiet decline for seventy years, only called in when an incident came to the attention of a higher up who knew of its existence through hushed conversations with older higher ups. No one is particularly happy about its resurgence, not least because Nightingale is untouchable on a political level, cases that fall under his purview can hardly ever be officially closed, and he's been ignoring institutional changes with polite indifference for decades - he didn't even know the modern police caution until a few books into the series. Things only get worse once Peter comes along and demonstrates how destructive a half trained apprentice can be. He's flat out told at one point that the only reason he hasn't been fired is because they can't guarantee his replacement would do any better. His one saving grace is that he takes his job seriously and has been single handedly bringing the Folly into compliance with all of the bureaucratic guidelines Nightingale had been ignoring since the 1950s.
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Rivers of London / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Rivers of London / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: What the original Faceless Man did to Larry the Lark, reducing him to a living decapitated head and incorporating it into a fortune-telling booth, then abandoning him in a deserted nightclub for decades.
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Rivers of London / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
Rivers of London / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: FBI agent Reynolds looks blank when Zach uses the slang term "ends", so the group runs through several British-slang synonyms ("patch", "manor", etc.) before hitting upon "hood", which she recognizes.
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Rivers of London / int_aa8940ee	type	Destructive Saviour
Rivers of London / int_aa8940ee	comment	Destructive Saviour: Peter. This runs from the mundane, like hijacking an ambulance and causing twenty thousand pounds worth of damage, to the magical, where Nightingale jokes that Peter's signare is the tendency to make things explode.
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Rivers of London / int_aa92a5d2	type	Mega Neko
Rivers of London / int_aa92a5d2	comment	Mega Neko: The Ethically Challenged Magician creates real catgirls and catboys.
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Rivers of London / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Rivers of London / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Repeated exposure to various forms of mental influence has given Peter enough resistance to ignore it. At least from a less experienced user.
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Rivers of London / int_abdf7d09	type	Weirdness Censor
Rivers of London / int_abdf7d09	comment	Weirdness Censor: Or "Witness Perception Displacement" as it is known in officially approved policing parlance. Making sure the Folly can take a statement before any inconveniently improbable details get rationalized out of long term memory keeps Peter rather busy at times.
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Rivers of London / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Rivers of London / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The chapters of Moon Over Soho all have the titles of classic jazz songs. The chapters of Whispers Under Ground are all named after tube stations. The chapters of Foxglove Summer are all named after police buzzwords. The chapters of False Value are all named after quotes from fictional AIs (and one real-life AI scientist). The sections of Amongst Our Weapons are all named after Monty Python's Flying Circus quotes, all but onenote The section set Oop North is "Hampstead wasn't good enough for you..." from the Spanish Insquisition sketch. The chapters are all titled after things that could be weapons, literally ("Scalpel", "Spear", "Air Support") or metaphorically ("Knowledge", "Logistics", "Love").
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Rivers of London / int_ac9cac61	type	Scare 'Em Straight
Rivers of London / int_ac9cac61	comment	Scare 'Em Straight: Wherever Dr. Walid goes, his preserved hyper-thaumaturgical necrosis samples are not far behind. They work fairly well once people realize they're looking at cross sections of an ex-practitioner's brain and not slices of cauliflower.
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Rivers of London / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Rivers of London / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Peter's and his father's jazz expertise pays off in Moon Over Soho. Peter's knowledge of architecture and its history, previously used for Scenery Porn and Shown Their Work, proves very plot-useful in Broken Homes.
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Rivers of London / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Rivers of London / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: In The Hanging Tree, Peter is at Martin Chorley's house doing a sweep for occult material, and while talking with the homeowner, he notices that the man is wearing a very expensive mechanical watch, like what might be chosen by a practitioner who's trying to avoid magic-vulnerable microchips, and realizes that he's almost certainly alone with the Faceless Man.
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Rivers of London / int_ad94c7a0	type	Scars Are Forever
Rivers of London / int_ad94c7a0	comment	Scars are Forever: Lesley's horrific injuries at the end of Rivers of London do not get any better in Moon Over Soho. As of book 3, she's getting better at letting people see her without her mask, but things have not improved much. In book four, Lesley is revealed to have become The Mole for the Faceless Man, and it's implied that she expects him to subvert this trope and restore her face. In book six, Lesley suddenly turns up with her face not only too perfectly healed, but also being able to shapeshift it. It has yet to be revealed how the extensive damage was repaired â€” and more specifically, by whom. In Moon Over Soho, Nightingale is still suffering from his wounds from the previous book, keeping him firmly in the background and as support. Oberon â€” despite being some sort of Fae â€” still bears the scars from his days as a slave a few hundred years ago.
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Rivers of London / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Rivers of London / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Something of a calling card for the Faceless Man. He leaves sarcastic messages on magical landmines in Elvish script and, in Foxglove Summer, leaves a literal card for Nightingale â€” after he tracks down the location of a phone call, all that's in the house is a "With Sympathy" greeting card with "NICE TRY" written inside it.
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Rivers of London / int_aed924dc	type	You Do Not Have to Say Anything
Rivers of London / int_aed924dc	comment	You Do Not Have to Say Anything: Nightingale forgets the modern version of the caution when arresting Varvara in Broken Homes, leading to Lesley having to shout it from where her and Peter are hiding. He remembers it in The Hanging Tree when he arrests Reynard Fossman.
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Rivers of London / int_af11866	type	Wizarding School
Rivers of London / int_af11866	comment	Wizarding School: Casterbrook â€” the school where Nightingale learned magic â€” used to be one of these. After WWII there just weren't enough people left for it to be useful, though.
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Rivers of London / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
Rivers of London / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: Peter is the narrator of the books and is a self-admitted smart-ass, although he is slowly learning how not to be.
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Rivers of London / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Rivers of London / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: At the end of book four it is revealed that Lesley is working for the Faceless Man when she tasers Peter to help him get away. Disturbingly, we have no idea for how long she has been a double agent, but the victim at the start of the book was killed as part of the Faceless Man's research into magically creating a new face for her.
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Rivers of London / int_b14ca7ba	type	Two Aliases, One Character
Rivers of London / int_b14ca7ba	comment	Two Aliases, One Character: In Rivers of London, it turns out that Nicholas Wallpenny, the ghost that Peter encounters at the beginning, was actually a guise of Henry Pyke, which is why he was so loath to appear in front of Nightingale, who might have figured it out.
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Rivers of London / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
Rivers of London / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: Despite some setbacks and hiccups, Peter has been rising steadily and estimates his career is about two years ahead of the average. Although considering how understaffed the Folly is, this doesn't mean all that much.
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Rivers of London / int_b44e86c4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
Rivers of London / int_b44e86c4	comment	You Do NOT Want To Know: Whatever it was Nightingale found in that room during Moon Over Soho, Peter decides he really doesn't. All we know is that the people who exhume mass graves in Rwanda and Kosovo need to be called to process it and some of what they find is not dead (yet).
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Rivers of London / int_b575a2b1	type	Cold Iron
Rivers of London / int_b575a2b1	comment	Cold Iron: Mentioned to be a problem for the river folk in Moon Over Soho, when one of them gets an iron railing straight through him. The paramedic who finds him doesn't know this and tries to stop Peter pulling it out — sensible in most circumstances, where it would be a stopper on the wound, but here it's only killing him faster. Further upheld in Foxglove Summer, where Peter uses a staff with an iron cap to wound a unicorn.
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Rivers of London / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Rivers of London / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: An In-Universe example; when Dr Walid cooks up the fast-acting sedative, he also gives Peter a card for paramedics to read in case he stabs himself:
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Rivers of London / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Rivers of London / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: Whatever happened to Peter and Lesley during their probationary training that involved "the dwarf, the showgirl, and the fur coat".
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Rivers of London / int_b6203862	type	Interquel
Rivers of London / int_b6203862	comment	Interquel: The Furthest Station was published after The Hanging Tree, but is set between it and Foxglove Summer.
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Rivers of London / int_b6c0ef1f	type	What Have I Become?
Rivers of London / int_b6c0ef1f	comment	Book two ends with the suicide of Peter's love interest and her sisters when they realise what they are.
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Rivers of London / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
Rivers of London / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: In Foxglove Summer, Peter encounters two racists in a cafÃ© who, now they have the opportunity to actually practice their racism, don't know what to do, so they don't really do anything. Peter isn't impressed, and doesn't feel at all threatened.
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Rivers of London / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
Rivers of London / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Lesley claims Peter is too easily-distracted to be a street cop. In his defence, Peter argues that if he were as focused as she'd like, he'd overlook vestigia and other subtle hints of the uncanny.
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Rivers of London / int_b892dd2d	type	Girl of the Week
Rivers of London / int_b892dd2d	comment	Girl of the Week: Beverley in book one, and Simone in book two. Simone is more of a Temporary Love Interest, though, while Beverley returns as a serious love interest later in the series.
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Rivers of London / int_ba4cfe21	type	Social Engineering
Rivers of London / int_ba4cfe21	comment	Social Engineering: Peter's training has equipped him with loads of little tricks used by Real Life police officers, such as asking an unidentified person in a car for their driver's license: if you ask their name they might lie and have a right not to answer, but if they think it's a traffic issue they'll hand their card over without complaint.
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Rivers of London / int_bc848be9	type	Intangible Time Travel
Rivers of London / int_bc848be9	comment	Intangible Time Travel: Deliberately and by accident, Peter keeps finding himself in the mental "ghost world" of London's past, usually when he's meeting up with or confronting Mr. Punch and/or the dead sons of Father Thames.
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Rivers of London / int_bd5e8cd9	type	Urban Fantasy
Rivers of London / int_bd5e8cd9	comment	Urban Fantasy: It's about a 21st century cop who uses magic and investigates supernatural incidents.
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Rivers of London / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
Rivers of London / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: The Hanging Tree starts off with Peter having to fulfill his owed favour to Lady Ty by making sure her daughter isn't implicated in a suspicious death by drug overdose, which is tied into an investigation of how the teenagers at the party in question got access to a flat in the highly-secure One Hyde Park. This leads to the identity of the Faceless Man being exposed.
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Rivers of London / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Rivers of London / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Christina Chorley, overdose victim in The Hanging Tree.
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Rivers of London / int_bf09d8e8	type	Eye Colour Change
Rivers of London / int_bf09d8e8	comment	Eye Colour Change: May have happened to Nightingale in relation to his Merlin Sickness: in book 1, Peter describes him as having grey eyes upon meeting him, but says that a portrait he finds in the Folly's carriage house which he assumes to be of Nightingale's father has blue eyes. Zoe Thomas from Foxglove Summer had her eyes change from blue to hazel during her encounter with the fairies as a young girl where her one half-sister was swapped out for a changeling half-sister.
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Rivers of London / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Rivers of London / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Derek Lacey in Foxglove Summer. There are four young girls who are important to the narrative, and they all turn out to be half-sisters with him as the father. Even the fae. The entirety of the plot probably wouldn't have happened if he'd just learned to keep his zip closed.
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Rivers of London / int_bf414570	type	Cunning Like a Fox
Rivers of London / int_bf414570	comment	Reynard Fossman, a redhaired hunt-saboteur, petty criminal, and skeevy creep from a family of "total Reynards" who may be descended from the original Reynard the Fox. He may or may not be a shapeshifter, but he's known to bite in combat. As far as Cunning Like a Fox goes, Peter has him pegged as one of those people who's really easy to control in an interview, because however clever they are, they want you to see how clever they are.
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Rivers of London / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
Rivers of London / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: Mama Thames tells Peter that her decision to jump into the river was repeatedly delayed by how unsuitable she found one bridge after another. The would-be "one-under" who kept having to wait because he wouldn't jump in front of a Tube train if any kids were around to see.
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Rivers of London / int_c241adec	comment	Supernatural Sensitivity: A magician can sense magic as a flash of sensations. The Rivers are able to literally smell when someone is a magician, even if the magician in question isn't using magic at the time. Toby the dog is also able to sense magic. In the fourth book, the Night Witch says that the Germans had units of men â€” called werewolves â€” able to "sniff out" magicians. These men may or may not have been actual lycanthropes.
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Rivers of London / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Rivers of London / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: The mnemonic for first-officer-on-the-scene-of-a-disaster is SAD CHALETS. "Survey; oh god there's a bomb. Assess; oh god there's more than one bomb and everyone in the tower will die. Disseminate; oh god there's a bomb, we're going to die, send help." Peter cannot remember what any of the other letters are except for the final S which stands for "Start a log". Even Peter admits that it felt like cheating to make the acronym work. The Hanging Tree indicates that the database for types of illegal drugs is called TICTAC.
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Rivers of London / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
Rivers of London / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: Played with. It's outright averted with the majority of police: Peter notes that unlike in the media, the police services all work fairly well together and do not get possessive over high-profile cases. If anything, the opposite is true; police departments will actively work to transfer responsibility to other departments because of the massive cost and time involved in murder investigations so that it doesn't come out of their budget. However, the Folly (aka the Special Assessment Unit, formerly EU9) occasionally shows itself to be the exception: their methods are so abnormal and their findings are so difficult to report and translate into the current system that they tend to negatively affect the clear-up rates and records of any other jurisdiction they work with. While some branches are eager to call them in for anything on the off-chance they can foist their case expenses onto the SAU, others are desperate to avoid them: DCI Seawoll especially dislikes working with the Folly, partially due to personal dislike of the subjects involved and partially because he rarely ever ends up with an official, chargeable suspect to close the case, damaging his success rates.
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Rivers of London / int_c2e312d2	type	Hiding in a Hijab
Rivers of London / int_c2e312d2	comment	Hiding in a Hijab: In Broken Homes, while investigating the recently-emptied offices of County Gard, Peter and Lesley run into a Somali cleaning lady who introduces herself as Awa Shambir. Peter notes that her hijab seems a bit too high-quality for someone in her line of work, but at the time nothing comes of it. Not until The Hanging Tree does Peter encounter her again and learn that not only is she neither Somali nor Muslim, but that her name is Lady Caroline Linden-Limmer and she's a practitioner of the Society of the Rose.
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Rivers of London / int_c324a7d	type	Cannibal Clan
Rivers of London / int_c324a7d	comment	Cannibal Clan: Peter and Nightingale spook each other by speculating they might find one of these in Whispers Under Ground, mostly because they'd both seen Death Line. Subverted, because the subterranean-adapted navvies raise albino pigs and get Tesco deliveries instead.
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Rivers of London / int_c3681757	type	Meido
Rivers of London / int_c3681757	comment	Meido: Molly, always wears the full Edwardian-Victorian maid outfit, and to quote the narration in Moon Over Soho:
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Rivers of London / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Rivers of London / int_c36cba70	comment	Broken Homes also foreshadows Lesley's Face-Heel Turn when both Peter and Lesley are taken prisoner and the mooks are getting ready to kill them; Lesley uncharacteristically joins Peter in begging the guys to call their boss, with her voice noted as having urgency in it. It's clear she has already switched sides at that point, or at least has been given the offer.
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Rivers of London / int_c489934e	type	Apron Matron
Rivers of London / int_c489934e	comment	Apron Matron: Mama Thames is this for the London Rivers. Peter's own Mum as well.
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Rivers of London / int_c514c2c4	type	Gentleman and a Scholar
Rivers of London / int_c514c2c4	comment	Gentleman and a Scholar: DCI Nightingale, right down to the silver-tipped cane and tendency to correct other people's grammar.
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Rivers of London / int_c555059a	type	There Is Another
Rivers of London / int_c555059a	comment	There Is Another: Nightingale thought he was the last active master Newtonian practitioner in the UK. Then Peter ran into the Faceless Man... The Society of the Rose, a line of female practitioners who passed the teaching of magic from mother to daughter, comes to light in The Hanging Tree.
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Rivers of London / int_c58de9b	type	Supernatural Martial Arts
Rivers of London / int_c58de9b	comment	Supernatural Martial Arts: In Broken Homes, Peter is practicing his formae and speculates that it might be possible to create one with the shape of the body, rather than using words to form a shape in your mind, and maybe that's where the idea of martial artists flying and throwing energy bolts comes from. Somewhat confirmed in Lies Sleeping through Sahra Guleed being taught a traditional Chinese form of magical martial arts by Legendary Swordsman Michael Cheung and being seen using reality-defying jumps and moves in physical combat.
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Rivers of London / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
Rivers of London / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: Ghost Henry Pyke by way of Mr. Punch does this to Lesley for most of the first book.
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Rivers of London / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Rivers of London / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Book four ends on one with Lesley's defection to evil. Book six, The Hanging Tree, ends with teasing the return of Mister Punch and his connection to Lesley, kicking in the last episode of the first big story arc â€” Lies Sleeping. The ending of book seven, Lies Sleeping, is neatly tied up at first view, but also leaves the reader hanging on the threads of the last-page reveal that Beverley is expecting Peter's and her child, and the cases of what's going to happen concerning Lesley May, the crumbling Masquerade, Peter's future in the Met, and the expansion of the Folly re: new apprentices.
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Rivers of London / int_c6dd74c5	type	Unbelievable Source Plot
Rivers of London / int_c6dd74c5	comment	Unbelievable Source Plot: Rivers of London starts with Police Constable Peter Grant interviewing a witness to a murder, who happens to be a ghost. This testimony, however, will hardly stand in a courtroom, and Grant has to use it as a springboard to find evidence that will. Similar problems with magical evidence come up elsewhere in the series, but don't drive as much of the plot.
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Rivers of London / int_c6e0455d	type	Afterlife Express
Rivers of London / int_c6e0455d	comment	Afterlife Express: The bodged-together replica Dakota which Brook has Peter enchant to lure in the ghosts of air-crash war casualties in Amongst Our Weapons.
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Rivers of London / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Rivers of London / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Has its own page.
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Rivers of London / int_c85cb635	type	WhyDontYaJustShootHim
Rivers of London / int_c85cb635	comment	Villain example when Punch decides to just shoot Nightingale.
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Rivers of London / int_c8d69cac	type	Even the Rats Won't Touch It
Rivers of London / int_c8d69cac	comment	Even the Rats Won't Touch It: Toby whimpers and hides when offered some of Molly's eggs Benedict.
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Rivers of London / int_c957b993	type	Nerds Speak Klingon
Rivers of London / int_c957b993	comment	Nerds Speak Klingon: Peter puts a copy of a Tolkien-Elvish phrase he'd found on a magical booby-trap on the Internet and asks for a translation. Lord of the Rings fans quickly come up with the English version, which says that whoever is reading it is both a nerd and probably dead.
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Rivers of London / int_c97ca4d8	type	Magic Staff
Rivers of London / int_c97ca4d8	comment	Magic Staff: Nightingale's cane is one. The fourth book reveals that they used to be forged by an order called the Sons of Weyland, but the order no longer exists and Nightingale may be the only one who knows how to make one now â€” in England at least. They can be used to store up magical energy that a magician can call upon when he needs it. In Foxglove Summer, the Sons of Weyland get namedropped by a retired wizard living in the country, and he bequeaths to Peter his old staves.
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Rivers of London / int_c9e5a0db	type	Legacy Character
Rivers of London / int_c9e5a0db	comment	Legacy Character: The Faceless Man is the second criminal wizard to adopt that role. Reynard Fossman is one of many fae or demi-fae to have assumed the "Reynard the Fox" archetype over the centuries.
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Rivers of London / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Rivers of London / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Nightingale is consistently portrayed as a near-mythical magical combatant, but up to and including book six we see him throw down in anger only once. (Although the earth does shake when he finally let's loose.) While we do not get to see another earthshaking duel in book seven, Lies Sleeping, Nightingale is throwing around some extremely skilled spells in combat, and in a non-combat situation, he uses a spell which Peter informs us is at least Twentieth Order â€” which means, really fucking near-mythical.
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Rivers of London / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Rivers of London / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Mama Thames claims she no longer remembers her name as a mortal woman.
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Rivers of London / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Rivers of London / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: Abigail Kamara's father is "Adam" in Moon Over Soho and "Alfred" in Whispers Under Ground. In "The Home Crowd Advantage", Peter mentions an ambulance hijacking as one of the reasons he's not involved in security for the Olympics. However, the official chronology places the short story between the first two books, Rivers of London and Moon Over Soho, when the ambulance hijacking occurs in the latter book. It can't be fixed by simply ignoring the chronology and assuming the short story takes place after Moon Over Soho, because the novel explicitly ends in October, when the Olympics were long over. In the introduction in Tales from the Folly, Aaronovitch says it was written to order after he'd been specifically trying to avoid mentioning the Olympics, and while it's "notionally" set between the first two books, it buggers up the timeline so much that it's probably non-canon. Either that, or Peter's hijacked more than one ambulance in his early career.
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Rivers of London / int_cbf05a02	type	Vagina Dentata
Rivers of London / int_cbf05a02	comment	Vagina Dentata: Possessed by the Pale Lady, whose first victim is found at the end of book one, and who plays a signficant part in book two.
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Rivers of London / int_cddc61ac	type	Fake-Out Make-Out
Rivers of London / int_cddc61ac	comment	Fake-Out Make-Out: Stephen from False Value pulls Peter into this ploy when September the bodyguard nearly catches them at the entrance to Bambleweeny.
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Rivers of London / int_ce555c91	type	Post-Modern Magik
Rivers of London / int_ce555c91	comment	Post-Modern Magik: While magic itself will destroy any technology equipped with a microprocessor, it's not uncommon to find supernatural beings who have embraced the modern world. So far we've seen: Local goddesses with mobile phones, university degrees, and Wikipedia pages. The equivalent of dwarves who carry Sten guns, wear sunglasses and donkey-jackets, get their groceries from Tesco, and are fond of the music of Queen. Technologically savvy magicians using the internet to translate parts of grimoires. Certain modern plastics hold magic residue nearly as well as stone does. Cat girls created with magic, and possibly the assistance of modern science as well. One of Nightingale's school chums speculated about whether a Genius Loci could emerge within the subway system or telephone network. The fourth book introduces a council estate that contained a device for capturing magical energy and also had a dryad living in its copse of plane trees. Taken to the extreme in False Value, which features a haunted pseudo-AI, a clockwork device for extracting energy from other dimensions, and enchantment-powered 3D-printed killer drones.
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Rivers of London / int_cf7b362	type	Horror Hunger
Rivers of London / int_cf7b362	comment	Horror Hunger: Implied to be why Molly nearly eats Peter after the hemomancy rite in the first book.
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Rivers of London / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Rivers of London / int_d001c42c	comment	Lady Cecelia Tyburn-Thames, the goddess of the River Tyburn and Mother Thames' eldest daughter, is a cunning strategist with big plans to modernise the supernatural community and has been subtly working for decades to do so. Her intelligence is emphasised by the fact that she graduated from Oxford University with a double first, something she proudly boasts to Peter Grant upon their first meeting.
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Rivers of London / int_d05cf3f	type	Footnote Fever
Rivers of London / int_d05cf3f	comment	Footnote Fever: The Furthest Station and What Abigail Did That Summer each include a series of footnotes explaining British colloquialisms and cultural references in American terms, addressed to Peter's FBI colleague Kimberly Reynolds.
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Rivers of London / int_d1b19b75	type	Debate and Switch
Rivers of London / int_d1b19b75	comment	Debate and Switch: At the end of Moon Over Soho Simone and her sisters are revealed to be inadvertently feeding off of other people's lifeforce to stay alive. Nightingale is for summary execution, as per historical treatment of similar creatures. Peter says they have rights under law, Nightingale counters that it would blow the Masquerade wide open to go through the courts, and it looks like they have a major dilemma on their hands. Then the sisters commit suicide because they cannot live with the revelation, solving everything neatly.
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Rivers of London / int_d1b4f0ef	type	Everybody Lives
Rivers of London / int_d1b4f0ef	comment	Everybody Lives: Aside from one unfortunate sheep, there are no deaths in Foxglove Summer, although a few people wind up in hospital and one of the unicorns may need a faerie vet's attention.
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Rivers of London / int_d29e9f65	type	Nature Versus Nurture
Rivers of London / int_d29e9f65	comment	Nature Versus Nurture: A theme in Foxglove Summer. The fairy changeling situation seems at first to be a straightforward case of the changeling being mischievous and the human child being well-behaved — then it turns out that it's actually a case of the changeling being switched back, meaning that the mischievous child is the human and the normal child is the changeling, each behaving according to the way they've been raised since the original switch years earlier.
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Rivers of London / int_d31da2e3	type	If It's You, It's Okay
Rivers of London / int_d31da2e3	comment	If It's You, It's Okay: Thrust into the earliest memories of London in Lies Sleeping, Peter is grabbed by a Celtic-looking young man who commences to give him a passionate kiss. The instant he realizes that it's actually Beverley Brook in her/his pre-Great Stink incarnation, consistently-hetero Peter's suddenly fine with it.
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Rivers of London / int_d3701aea	type	Prevent the War
Rivers of London / int_d3701aea	comment	Prevent the War: In the first book, the B-Plot is that the two Anthropomorphic Personifications of the Thames, and their families, are gearing up to go toe-to-toe with each other (with the implication that it will be very unpleasant for everyone living in the Thames valley, estuary, and catchment area) and our heroes need to find a way to force a truce.
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Rivers of London / int_d56c9b8d	type	Eagleland Osmosis
Rivers of London / int_d56c9b8d	comment	Eagleland Osmosis: In Foxglove Summer, Peter is irritated when Beverley calls the police "the feds". ("The filth" is at least an English epithet.)
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Rivers of London / int_d5bcb124	type	Technologically Blind Elders
Rivers of London / int_d5bcb124	comment	Technologically Blind Elders: Nightingale knows little to nothing about the modern, computerized systems used by the police and comments that he keeps forgetting modern phones can take pictures in the first book. If he's motivated, though, he can pick up on things quite quickly, such as how to use an Airwave radio or using Peter's flatscreen TV for watching rugby. By Lies Sleeping, he's learned how to skype.
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Rivers of London / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
Rivers of London / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: The young male Librarian from False Value variously goes by Stephen, Jacob, and Mitchell in his various interactions with Londoners, and that's just for one mission. Peter has no idea if any of these is the man's real name or even close to it.
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Rivers of London / int_d642b0c6	type	Discreet Dining Disposal
Rivers of London / int_d642b0c6	comment	Discreet Dining Disposal: Toby's tendency to waddle can be traced to this trope, as Molly tends to cook much too much and has Lethal Chef tendencies.
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Rivers of London / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
Rivers of London / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: At the start of Whispers Under Ground, when DI Stephanopoulos finds out that the murder victim was in fact a student at St Martin's College, she can't resist quoting "Common People". In Foxglove Summer, Peter muses about actions:
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Rivers of London / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
Rivers of London / int_d68c925d	comment	Creator Provincialism: Ben Aaronovitch has admitted on his site and in his Author descriptions to absolutely adoring London and not wishing to live anywhere else. Peter is very much in the same mold, some people do try to call him out on this however. It is not an uncommon attitude among those born and raised in London in the real world.
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Rivers of London / int_d6a33187	type	We Didn't Start the Führer
Rivers of London / int_d6a33187	comment	We Didn't Start the FÃ¼hrer: Lampshaded and averted in The October Man, featuring Peter's German counterpart, Tobias Winter. A new colleague raises the question of whether the glamour might explain Hitler's rise to power, and Tobias explains that after the War his predecessors did a thorough investigation, lasting over a decade, which concluded that none of the Nazi high command were magical.
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Rivers of London / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Rivers of London / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Director of the Abteilung KDA, Nightingale's opposite number in the German police force. Tobias Winter, who narrates the stories she appears in, only ever refers to her by her title. Other characters sometimes use less flattering nicknames. Her actual name has not been revealed.
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Rivers of London / int_d7d6ed9a	type	Fictional Sport
Rivers of London / int_d7d6ed9a	comment	Fictional Sport: Nightingale's old schoolmates played an impello-based version of dodgeball that they called Indoor Tennis. Peter and Lesley, naturally, call it Pocket Quidditch. Subverted with the "three-person sewer luge", which was never likely to catch on.
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Rivers of London / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: From Foxglove Summer, regarding the absent neighbour of the Marstowe family, a lecturer at Birmingham University:
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Rivers of London / int_d91d0365	type	The Magic Goes Away
Rivers of London / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away: Subverted in-universe: Nightingale and his surviving colleagues thought magic would fade away in the wake of Ettersberg, and it did weaken for a couple of decades. Then it started coming back and seems to be rising faster as of book four.
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Rivers of London / int_d9e946ae	type	Cute Monster Girl
Rivers of London / int_d9e946ae	comment	Cute Monster Girl: Molly the maid. Mostly human looking, but has a snake-like tongue and a smile that is just a bit too wide and too full of razor sharp teeth.
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Rivers of London / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Rivers of London / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Nightingale has to play this in book four when Peter and Lesley get captured. He really lets rip too. This trend continues throughout the next books, even with Peter's magical abilities steadily growing.
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Rivers of London / int_da06866e	type	Old Cop, Young Cop
Rivers of London / int_da06866e	comment	Old Cop, Young Cop: Nightingale and Peter.
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Rivers of London / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
Rivers of London / int_daef39ee	comment	In the third book, Peter refers to the Faceless Man's abandoned Elaborate Underground Base as an inverted wizard's tower.
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Rivers of London / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Rivers of London / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Lesley's name is spelled "Leslie" in the North American printings of Rivers of London and Moon Over Soho. DI Stephanopoulos' name has also been spelled "Stephanopoulis".
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Rivers of London / int_dc3df63a	type	Death Notification
Rivers of London / int_dc3df63a	comment	Death Notification: Discussed by Dr. Vaughn and Abigail at the necropsy of one of the talking foxes, which was fatally struck by a car. Abigail rubs a towel on the dead fox's fur so she can display his scent to her other fox friends, which will non-verbally suffice for this trope as well as for ID, since the towel will also smell of death to their keen noses.
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Rivers of London / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Rivers of London / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: In Whispers Under Ground, Albert Woodville-Gentle's nurse Varenka, who is revealed in Broken Homes to be Soviet Night Witch and Merlin Sickness victim Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina. In Broken Homes, Peter encounters a Somali cleaner named Awa Shambir at the empty County Gard offices, who he notes is wearing a suspiciously high-quality hijab. In The Hanging Tree, it's revealed she's an adopted British noblewoman, Lady Caroline Linden-Limmer, and practitioner of the Society of the Rose.
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Rivers of London / int_dce448d	type	Reduced to Ratburgers
Rivers of London / int_dce448d	comment	Reduced to Ratburgers: How Foxglove and her two companions survived the interval between their service under the two Faceless Men: trapped in a cellar, licking moisture off the walls and eating rats and insects which they lured into their prison. For fifteen years.
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Rivers of London / int_dd45df38	type	Unfortunate Names
Rivers of London / int_dd45df38	comment	Unfortunate Names: In False Value, Harvey Window is a computer geek who has managed to avoid getting stuck with a Windows-based nickname by dint of objecting, violently if necessary, any time someone tries one on him.
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Rivers of London / int_dd9fba61	type	A Rare Sentence
Rivers of London / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: In Foxglove Summer, Dominic comments that he can't believe he's saying things like, "Do we actually have an operational plan for dealing with the unicorns?" In The Furthest Station, when Jaget remarks that "not assuming there's only one ghost" isn't often named among examples of good police procedure, Peter replies "Speak for yourself".
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Rivers of London / int_de143e97	type	Psychic Nosebleed
Rivers of London / int_de143e97	comment	Psychic Nosebleed: Chronic overuse of magic results in "hyperthaumaturgical necrosis", as Dr. Walid puts it. If you're lucky, a mild case will closely resemble a stroke and leave the practitioner confined to a wheelchair. More severe cases can kill in minutes and turn the brain into something resembling cauliflower. Figuring out exactly what the limits are is one of the reasons it takes ten years to properly train someone to use magic, and why even experienced practitioners ration their magic use to one hour per day.
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Rivers of London / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Rivers of London / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: While most of the books have an element of this with two or three plot threads that pile on together thanks to multiple criminals working against each other while Peter tries untangling the plot, The Hanging Tree ups the ante by putting the Folly in the middle of a clusterfuck of about half-a-dozen different supernatural entities/institutions, all with their own (and opposing) agendas.
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Rivers of London / int_dfa1ee91	type	Changeling Tale
Rivers of London / int_dfa1ee91	comment	Changeling Tale: Foxglove Summer begins with a missing child case that is eventually revealed to be one of these thanks to The Fair Folk.
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Rivers of London / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
Rivers of London / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: At the climax of Broken Homes, the Faceless Man's reaction when Peter opens up the Stadtkrone atop Skygarden Tower and releases the power inside it makes it pretty clear he didn't even suspect that was part of the design at all.
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Rivers of London / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Rivers of London / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: The books are from Peter's perspective, so it's Justified.
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Rivers of London / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Rivers of London / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Happens to Peter during The Hanging Tree when he realizes, halfway through a routine check-up for occult material in a victim's home, that the victim's father is the Faceless Man.
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Rivers of London / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Rivers of London / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Tyburn, as abrasive as she often is to Peter, genuinely loves her husband and children, and as illustrated in The Hanging Tree, anyone attempting to harm them is making the worst mistake of their life. Unless they're the Faceless Man, it will also be the last.
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Rivers of London / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
Rivers of London / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Gleefully defied in an early chapter of The Hanging Tree, when Albert Pryce attempts to get under Peter's skin while representing his daughter in the interrogation room. Not only is the supposedly insightful lecture really just a long stream of condescending racism based on facts that exist solely in Pryce's imagination, but Peter doesn't rise to the bait at all; he just sits back and leaves the representative to make an arse of himself. The whole thing ends with Pryce being told to shut the fuck up by his own daughter.
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Rivers of London / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Rivers of London / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: The first book, of Punch and Judy. It's both deliberately invoked and extremely plot-relevant.
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Rivers of London / int_e52a3f98	type	Extremely Overdue Library Book
Rivers of London / int_e52a3f98	comment	Extremely Overdue Library Book: Jason Dunlopâ€™s Principia, taken out of the Bodleian Library by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in 1941. Also the Casterbrook textbook in which the puzzle-rings from Amongst Our Weapons had been hidden.
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Rivers of London / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Rivers of London / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: When Peter and Nightingale discover they're up against a black magician in book two, Peter points out that the term "black magician" is problematic, particularly since Peter is of African descent and is thus, in a sense, himself a black magician. Thereafter he uses variations on "ethically challenged magical practitioner" instead. Zack gets offended when Peter calls him a goblin, grumbling that people who don't know what it means shouldn't call other people that. Abigail is very insistent that the railroad-track ghost is a "he", not an "it". In False Value, Peter notes that it is important to distinguish between AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) when talking to computing nerds.
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Rivers of London / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Rivers of London / int_e70127	comment	Lesley's horrific injuries at the end of Rivers of London do not get any better in Moon Over Soho. As of book 3, she's getting better at letting people see her without her mask, but things have not improved much. In book four, Lesley is revealed to have become The Mole for the Faceless Man, and it's implied that she expects him to subvert this trope and restore her face. In book six, Lesley suddenly turns up with her face not only too perfectly healed, but also being able to shapeshift it. It has yet to be revealed how the extensive damage was repaired â€” and more specifically, by whom.
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Rivers of London / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
Rivers of London / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: Demon traps. Essentially magical landmines powered by a tormented ghost.
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Rivers of London / int_e890e381	type	Acronym and Abbreviation Overload
Rivers of London / int_e890e381	comment	Acronym and Abbreviation Overload: The Metropolitan Police love this (probably Truth in Television). If an SIO in the SAU bungles his IIP, some ACPO will get his nose out of joint.
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Rivers of London / int_e8b3ee16	type	Ghostapo
Rivers of London / int_e8b3ee16	comment	Ghostapo: The Ettersberg research facility the Nazis were running in WW2 involved some very horrific abuses of magic, and also human and non-human people. The Real Life "WerwÃ¶lfe" were fanatic young Nazis in cities just after, or about to, surrender; they went through the streets and hanged everyone who put up a white flag. In the books, they were specialists at finding practitioners who might have been real werewolves.
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Rivers of London / int_e906fcc0	type	1-Dimensional Thinking
Rivers of London / int_e906fcc0	comment	1-Dimensional Thinking: Lampshaded and averted by Peter when he's running away from a mobile magical artifact in "A Rare Book of Cunning Device".
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Rivers of London / int_ea0d06f0	type	Bookcase Passage
Rivers of London / int_ea0d06f0	comment	Bookcase Passage: Not a bookcase, but there's an equally-clichÃ© secret door into the subterranean navvy community in Whispers Under Ground. Played with when Peter presses a convenient brick simply to get the clichÃ©d notion it'll open the door out of the way, and is amazed that it actually works.
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Rivers of London / int_ea2c8da6	type	Watch the Paint Job
Rivers of London / int_ea2c8da6	comment	Watch the Paint Job: That detailed description of how cool Beverley's new car is? You knew it would end up in this trope. Rioters 1: Car 0.
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Rivers of London / int_ea3891de	type	Pop-Cultured Badass
Rivers of London / int_ea3891de	comment	Pop-Cultured Badass: Peter makes a lot of Genre Savvy references to movies, Doctor Who, and various fictional wizards. His associates aren't bad at these, either. Even the Faceless Man drops a Tolkien reference in the inscription on a demon trap. In The Hanging Tree a confirmation of his identity is evidence that the suspect is a massive Inklings geek.
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Rivers of London / int_ea44cd34	type	Britain Is Only London
Rivers of London / int_ea44cd34	comment	Britain Is Only London: Well, London and Thames Valley. Lampshaded in Moon Over Soho; Nightingale tells Peter that there's more to life than London, and Peter replies "People keep saying that, but I've never actually seen any proof."
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Rivers of London / int_ea919c7f	type	Political Hostage
Rivers of London / int_ea919c7f	comment	Political Hostage: This is the solution Peter proposes to end the conflict between Father Thames and Mama Thames — a daugher of Mama Thames goes to live upriver and a son of Father Thames goes to live in London. As Peter himself readily admits, he got the idea from Dungeons & Dragons.
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Rivers of London / int_eaa8a7d8	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!
Rivers of London / int_eaa8a7d8	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: A major headache for the Folly is that most laws written after 1800 inexplicably fail to specify whether or not they apply to supernatural beings and non-humans. They have to go through a lot of convolutions to keep the supernatural out of official reports, often leading to no charges being filed and another strictly off the books "arrangement" being put in place. Not because the laws wouldn't apply, you understand, it's just that the supernatural is so far outside of what legal precedent encompasses that it would be laughably simple for any half-decent defense attorney to appeal a ruling they didn't like. Add to that that the main the point of the Folly is to protect the Masquerade, clarifying the issue would be self-defeating and likely cause more problems than it resolved.
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Rivers of London / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Rivers of London / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Nightingale is usually the BDH, such as in Book 4 when he rescues Lesley and Peter from the Night Witch and her cronies by magically ripping the front of the barn open "like a zipper" and then lifting and dropping the barn's roof. The subsequent fight sees another building destroyed. This was after he magically faked the sound of a car driving up to the barn and parking out in the front to distract the baddies inside from the fact that he was approaching from the rear. Beverley has to be the BDH in Foxglove Summer, when Peter had expected Nightingale. Another one of Nightingale's BDH moments can be pinpointed to Lies Sleeping, when a dizzy and injured Peter is about to be attacked by Chorley. Nightingale intervenes and literally sucks Chorley off his feet and throws him backwards through a nearby window, then protectively puts himself between Peter on the ground and said broken window, shielding his apprentice. Accompanied by the very soldierly quote "On your feet, Grant", this moment is pure Thomas "Tiger Tank" Nightingale. DI Miriam Stephanopoulos in Lies Sleeping. Not only does she taser Martin Chorley, but also keeps tasering him even when Lesley May orders Stephanopoulos to drop the taser â€” while pointing a gun at her. To this, Stephanopoulos only replies "If you're going to shoot, then shoot."
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Rivers of London / int_eb8856	type	The X of Y
Rivers of London / int_eb8856	comment	The X of Y: Book one, in the UK at least, Rivers of London. Short stories "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Granny" and "A Rare Book of Cunning Device".
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Rivers of London / int_ebcf99b5	type	The Unmasqued World
Rivers of London / int_ebcf99b5	comment	The Unmasqued World: Hinted at â€” it hasn't happened yet, but by the end of the third book, magic is crawling out of the woodwork at an accelerating pace and Peter Grant has reluctantly come to agree with Lady Tyburn that the Masquerade can't last much longer. (It's not so much the conclusion itself that he's reluctant about, he just hates the idea of Lady Ty being right about anything, and that she's positioing herself to be in charge of the un-masqueing.)
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Rivers of London / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Rivers of London / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: In The Hanging Tree, the sight of an expensive mechanical watch on Martin Chorley's wrist â€” one without microchips that can be destroyed by magic â€” tips Peter off that Chorley is almost certainly the Faceless Man.
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Rivers of London / int_ec7da60a	type	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
Rivers of London / int_ec7da60a	comment	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Sir Isaac Newton was the founder of English magic. Historical figures like Dr. Polidori were Newtonian magicians. Inverted in Broken Homes, where an exasperated Nightingale explains in great detail to Peter how all of the famous English serial killers were "ordinary monsters". In fact, Nightingale points out they would have been relieved if Jack the Ripper was something magical, or demonic, because it would mean that humanity wasn't that evil.
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Rivers of London / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Rivers of London / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Zack the half-fey shares a first name with DCI Thompson, head of the Jerry Johnson murder investigation. An aversion, as even when the Chief Inspector tells Peter to call him Zack, Grant is rank-conscious enough that that ain't happening. Also subverted with a One Stephen Limit, that being the name of both one of the Quiet People in Whispers Under Ground and one of the Librarians in False Value. The latter, at least, is implied to be an alias.
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Rivers of London / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
Rivers of London / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Tyburn is implied to be one of these to Mama Thames in Rivers of London, and in Moon Over Soho Nightingale confirms her status, and implies that when the inevitable clash between the two comes that it might be a good time to take a holiday on another continent.
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Rivers of London / int_ef269207	type	I Can See My House from Here
Rivers of London / int_ef269207	comment	I Can See My House from Here: In The October Man, featuring Peter's German counterpart, Tobias Winter, one of the characters was attacked by a family friend while they were walking on a hillside overlooking the town. Recounting the incident to Tobi, she says that he seemed normal and in a good mood before the attack, and gives as an example the fact that he looked down at the town and said he could see his house from up here. (When Tobi and Vanessa later establish the culprit's address, Vanessa notes that it really can be seen from the hillside.)
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Rivers of London / int_f25b1ae6	type	Unskilled, but Strong
Rivers of London / int_f25b1ae6	comment	Unskilled, but Strong: In Amongst Our Weapons, the "Angel of Death" wields a very potent enchanted spear, but the old-time Spanish practitioner who endowed her with the weapon never bothered to have her train with it, making it easier for Peter, Thomas and Sahra to fend it off and disarm her.
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Rivers of London / int_f373d5e	type	Powder Keg Crowd
Rivers of London / int_f373d5e	comment	Powder Keg Crowd: The patrons at the Royal Opera. Mr. Punch, mind-controlling several police officers via the ghost of Henry Pyke, incites the crowd to riot and burn down most of Covent Garden.
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Rivers of London / int_f3d9aa5b	type	All-Accessible Magic
Rivers of London / int_f3d9aa5b	comment	All-Accessible Magic: Inversely, magic is part of the natural forces and usually works by taking energy from the surrounding world rather than that inherent to the practitioner. Whilst there are multiple specific disciplines and traditions of how to harness and use magic, due to sharing the underlying rules it's possible for anyone to learn them with sufficient practice and knowledge, to the point that Lesley is able to figure out how to do a simple spell just by observing Peter and repeatedly practicing until she figures it out. However, untrained practitioners usually do not get very far, as, without understanding the basic principles, they do not understand that magic has to be done in moderation, leading to severe health complications and often death.
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Rivers of London / int_f6a0872	type	Mage Tower
Rivers of London / int_f6a0872	comment	Mage Tower: In the third book, Peter refers to the Faceless Man's abandoned Elaborate Underground Base as an inverted wizard's tower. In Foxglove Summer, Peter refers to Hugh Oswald's house as a wizard tower; this one's based on the Real Life Folly of Herefordshire. Lies Sleeping mentions that the Society of the Wise was headquartered in a tower on the grounds of a duke's country house before the Folly was built.
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Rivers of London / int_f76b8969	type	Anthropomorphic Personification
Rivers of London / int_f76b8969	comment	Anthropomorphic Personification: The Rivers themselves, and the Big Bad of book one.
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Rivers of London / int_f807e541	type	Fantastic Legal Weirdness
Rivers of London / int_f807e541	comment	Fantastic Legal Weirdness: Gleefully Played With and Inverted. At least once per book Peter will mention the exact regulation or act of parliament that applies to the supernatural situation at hand. Replacing a child with a changeling is still kidnapping, assault is assault regardless of whether it's with a fist or a fireball, and if all else fails "disturbing the queen's peace" is a remarkably flexible phrase. This then gets played straight, as while the laws almost certainly do apply, no one wants to be the first to try that argument on a judge, or, worse, a defense attorney.
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Rivers of London / int_f9c77812	type	Childhood Brain Damage
Rivers of London / int_f9c77812	comment	Childhood Brain Damage: Treated realistically with Stan from Foxglove Summer, who suffered a head injury while quadbike-riding as a teenager. Once bright and lively, the poor girl now zones out in mid-conversation and can't seem to grasp that calling the police because her dope stash has been hijacked isn't a logical course of action.
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Rivers of London / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Rivers of London / int_f9f2c33	comment	Having Peter ride out Nightingale's duels by diving for cover or veering off to pursue a lesser antagonist, thus saving his neck but missing his chance to recount precisely what's going on, has become a Running Gag by book six and is continued throughout book seven.
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Rivers of London / int_fa73ee9d	type	Explosive Leash
Rivers of London / int_fa73ee9d	comment	Explosive Leash: An associate of the Faceless Man in Lies Sleeping is taken into custody, but is killed by a magical tattoo his boss had applied to him as a precaution that works like a personalized demon trap.
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Rivers of London / int_fb3b3629	type	Wannabe Line
Rivers of London / int_fb3b3629	comment	Wannabe Line: The Mysterioso in Moon Over Soho is an attempt at recreating the atmosphere of a Soho jazz club in The '60s. With this in mind, The Management hire the toughest bouncers they can find, and basically tell them to let people in based on personal whim. At 11:45, the line is still going on forever. Peter (not wanting to panic the staff and clientele by saying "PC Grant, here on a case") gets through by namedropping his dad, the legendary trumpeter "Lord" Grant.
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Rivers of London / int_fb9e2ffd	comment	Team Pet: Toby the Dog.
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Rivers of London / int_fbec97c9	type	Dog Food Diet
Rivers of London / int_fbec97c9	comment	Dog Food Diet: Referenced when Peter deduces Toby's existence from the fact that the murder victim whose cupboard full of canned dog food he's just discovered wasn't that desperate. Returning to Skygarden to find Zach has ransacked their kitchen cupboards, Peter and Lesley accuse him of this trope. He denies that he ate Toby's canned food, but owns up to having sampled a few of the terrier's biscuits.
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Rivers of London / int_fc5dd45e	type	Lodged Blade Removal
Rivers of London / int_fc5dd45e	comment	Lodged Blade Removal: In Moon over Soho Ash Thames is stabbed by a piece of a wrought iron fence. Even though the ambulance crew try to keep it in the wound, Ash begs Peter to remove it since it is iron, which is more dangerous to the demi-monde than just blood loss. Since he is a genius loci of one of Thames tributaries, being thrown into the river saves his life.
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Rivers of London / int_fdb6b8ad	type	The Magnificent
Rivers of London / int_fdb6b8ad	comment	The Magnificent: Much of the magical community does this with Nightingale, always referring to him as The Nightingale. As of book five, some have taken to calling Peter himself "the starling", albeit without (yet) the prestige of a capital letter. In Lies Sleeping, this changes â€” not only does Peter receive the honor of a capital The Starling, but also earns the extra title The Herald of the Morning. As of Amongst Our Weapons they have one-upped themselves again by adding The Harbinger of the New World.
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Rivers of London / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Rivers of London / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: During the riot in Rivers of London, Peter comes across a burly guy crying as he tries to wear dainty ballet shoes only to tear them as he pulls them on, and with everything going on decides he doesn't actually want to know what the hell that's about. Next book, Moon Over Soho, he sees an arrested suspect who happens to be a burly guy in a pink tutu, and thinks in passing that the guy looks oddly familiar...
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Rivers of London / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Rivers of London / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: An extreme aversion with Lesley, whose beautiful face literally falls off at the end of the first book. As of book 3, reconstructive surgery has restored her speech and ability to eat solids, but she still wears a mask to avoid grossing people out.
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Rivers of London / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
Rivers of London / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Toby often plays this role due to his sensitivity to vestigia. The first book has an off-page moment where a blind man canvassing for charity donations who was the intended next victim of Mr. Punch was saved from the attack by his guide dog.
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Rivers of London / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Rivers of London / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: And how! Architecture, obscure London history, and police organizational structure for the most part, with a smattering of Latin and Shout Outs to old-time British intelligentsia thrown in.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

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Rivers of London	hasFeature	Bookcase Passage / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Break Out the Museum Piece / int_da52a723
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Rivers of London	hasFeature	Do Not Call Me "Paul" / int_da52a723
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Rivers of London	hasFeature	Themed Tarot Deck / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	They Have the Scent! / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Titled After the Song / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	To Unmasque the World / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Totem Pole Trench / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Truce Zone / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Turn in Your Badge / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Unaffected by Spice / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Unbelievable Source Plot / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Undercover Cop Reveal / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Undying Warrior / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Unintentional Period Piece / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Unsettling Gender-Reveal / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Uplifted Animal / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Urban Fantasy / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Useless Security Camera / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Vagina Dentata / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Van Helsing Hate Crimes / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Vanity License Plate / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Villain Has a Point / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Villainy-Free Villain / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Vomiting Cop / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Walking Disaster Area / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Walking Techbane / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	War Memorial / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Weird Historical War / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Welcome to Corneria / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	What Are Records? / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Who You Gonna Call? / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Whole-Plot Reference / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Wine Is Classy / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Wizard Duel / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Wizarding School / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Wizards Live Longer / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Words Do Not Make The Magic / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Working for a Body Upgrade / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Wrong Insult Offence / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Yellow Peril / int_da52a723
Rivers of London	hasFeature	Yiddish as a Second Language / int_da52a723
riversoflondon	sameAs	Rivers of London

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