Foxglove Summer, Ben Aaronovitch
Foxglove Summer, Ben Aaronovitch
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Foxglove Summer

Author: Ben Aaronovitch

Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Unabridged: 11 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/20/2026


Synopsis

Ben Aaronovitch's bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series

When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant is sent out of London to check that nothing supernatural is involved.

It's purely routine—Nightingale, Peter's superior, thinks he'll be done in less than a day. But Peter's never been one to walk away from someone in trouble, so when nothing overtly magical turns up he volunteers his services to the local police, who need all the help they can get. 

But because the universe likes a joke as much as the next sadistic megalomaniac, Peter soon comes to realize that dark secrets underlie the picturesque fields and villages of the countryside and there might just be work for Britain's most junior wizard after all.

Soon Peter's in a vicious race against time, in a world where the boundaries between reality and fairy have never been less clear . . .

About Ben Aaronovitch

Before becoming a bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch was a screenwriter for Doctor Who and a bookseller at Waterstones. He now writes full-time, and every book in his Rivers of London series has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. He is published in fourteen languages and has sold more than 2 million copies around the world. Aaronovitch is also a trustee on the board of Cityread London and is a long-time supporter of Nigeria's premiere arts and cultural festival, The Ake Festival. He still lives in London, the city he likes to refer to as "the capital of the world."


Reviews

Goodreads review by Philip on April 29, 2017

4.25ish stars. Perhaps my favorite of the series so far not least because it's made the most sense. :) One of the only issues I have with the series is the general lack of cohesion from book to book. This is a personal preference but I favor focus in my police procedurals as opposed to more "true-to-......more

Goodreads review by Lois on December 28, 2014

Well, that was fun. Readers who don't know the series should not start here, but rather, with the first book, Rivers of London or, in its US retitling, Midnight Riot. Readers who do know the series should not get spoilers, which leaves me with not much to say by way of a review. I liked this a lot, bo......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on September 01, 2021

Re-Read 9/1/21: Gotta love getting run down by unicorns in the boonies. Still a great UF. :) Original Review: This continues to be one of the very best UF series out there for a very good reason... It's always the careful attention to detail. Proper if you're a copper. Honestly, I think this one might ha......more

Goodreads review by Emily on May 26, 2021

3.5 really. Not my favourite in the series but better than other books that I’ve rated 3 stars Still excited to continue with this serious as audiobooks......more