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What Abigail Did That Summer: A Rivers of London Novella

What Abigail Did That Summer: A Rivers of London Novella

by Ben Aaronovitch

Publisher Gollancz

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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The brand new novella in the much-loved and #1 bestselling Rivers of London series!

Ghost hunter, fox whisperer, troublemaker.

It is the summer of 2013 and Abigail Kamara has been left to her own devices. This might, by those who know her, be considered a mistake. While her cousin, police constable and apprentice wizard Peter Grant, is off in the sticks, chasing unicorns, Abigail is chasing her own mystery. Teenagers around Hampstead Heath have been going missing but before the police can get fully engaged, the teens return home - unharmed but vague about where they've been.

Aided only by her new friend Simon, her knowledge that magic is real, and a posse of talking foxes that think they're spies, Abigail must venture into the wilds of Hampstead to discover who is luring the teenagers and more importantly - why?

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About the Author

Ben Aaronovitch

Ben Aaronovitch was born in London in 1964 and had the kind of dull routine childhood that drives a man either to drink or to science fiction.


He is a screenwriter, with early notable success on BBC’s legendary Doctor Who, for which he wrote some episodes now widely regarded as classics, and which even he is quite fond of.


After a decade of such work, he decided it was time to show the world what he could really do, and embarked on his first serious original novel. The result is Rivers of London, the debut adventure of Peter Grant.

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