Rivers of London (Midnight Riot), Audio Edition

Midnight Riot, Audio Edition (2011/2012) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

I finished all the Nightside books that I own, and instead of buying the next book (none of them are available at my library) I decided to re-listen to the Rivers of London series, since there is a new book.

I do love this series.

He handed me a card that was still warm from a lamination machine. In Dr. Walid’s neat, all-capitalized handwriting, it said, “Warning: I have been stupid enough to stick myself with etorphine hydrochloride,” and listed the procedures the paramedics were to follow; most of them concerned resuscitation and heroic measures to maintain heartbeat and respiration.

“And what am I?”

“Too easily distracted.”

“I am not.”

“New Year’s Eve, Trafalgar Square, big crowd, bunch of total wankers pissing in the fountain—remember that?” asked Leslie. “Wheels come off, wankers get stroppy and what were you doing?”

“I was only gone for a couple of seconds,” I said. “

You were checking what was written on the lion’s bum,” said Leslie. “I was wrestling a couple of drunken chavs and you were doing historical research.”

“Do you want to know what was on the lion’s bum?” I asked.

“No,” said Leslie. “I don’t want to know what was written on the lion’s bum, or how siphoning works or why one side of Floral Street is a hundred years older than the other side.” “You don’t think any of that’s interesting?”

Eliza Doolittle, as played by Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, would have bought her violets there before moving off to display the worst cockney accent this side of Dick Van Dyke.

I do love this book.

Publisher: Tantor Audio
Rating: 10/10

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