Lucky for him, he bumps into a ghost one night near the end of his assumed tenure, and after briefly mentioning what he’d seen within earshot of the right people, finds himself inducted into the small branch of the Met that deals with “The Supernatural” instead of out on his ear.

He’s a young officer in the Metropolitan Police, and at the beginning of the story, he’s about to get canned. Peter Grant is the main character of the novel, and from what I understand, the entire series. 🙂 I’m somewhat curious if any others on this side of the pond that listened to the audiobook had the same thing come up for them. As it turned out, this association I’d made raised it’s head several times whilst I was listening, as the main character of the story is a trim, black guy, and James Corden… most definitely is not. Now those of you that know a bit more about British dialects/accents might cry foul at this, but it is what it is. Most of you probably know that we’re Yanks here at EBR, and as I was listening to this one, I couldn’t help but associate Smith’s voice with a different Brit that I was somewhat more acquainted with: James Corden. I picked up the audiobook for this one, and really liked the performance that the narrator, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, gave of the book. Midnight Riot ( Amazon), (or for those of you across the pond: “Rivers of London”), is the first book in the PC Peter Grant (Rivers of London) series. I’ve absolutely loved all of the movies from Pegg and Frost that I’ve seen, and as the book was listed as being “urban fantasy”, I thought it worth a few ticks of my progressively aging ticker. So I recently read on social media (that salacious den of way-too-accurate ads and oodles of wasted time), that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost had optioned a book series called Rivers of London by some bloke named Ben Aaronovitch ( Official Announcement) for a movie.

Midnight riot series