Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection, Audio Edition

Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection, Audio Edition (2020) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by: the author, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Ben Elliot, Felix Grainger, Sam Peter Jackson, Alex Kingston, Shvorne Marks, and Penelope Rawlins

PART ONE: THE PETER GRANT STORIES
The Home Crowd Advantage: set between Rivers of London and Moon Over Soho
The Domestic: set between Rivers of London and Moon Over Soho
The Cockpit: Set between Whispers Under Ground and Broken Homes
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Granny: set just after Foxglove Summer
King of The Rats: set between Foxglove Summer and The Hanging Tree
A Rare Book of Cunning Device: Set between The Hanging Tree and Lies Sleeping

PART TWO: THE OTHERS’ STORIES
A Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Favourite Uncle: Abigail, set between The Hanging Tree and Lies Sleeping
Vanessa Sommer’s Other Christmas List: set around the same time as False Value
Three Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby: Victor & Dominic, set after Amongst Our Weapons
Moment One: London September 1966: Nightingale
Moment Two: Reynolds— Florence, Az. 2014: Agent Reynolds
Moment Three: Tobias Winter— Meckenheim 2012

‘I’m interested in history,’ I said. ‘Why don’t you tell me what happened.’

‘Why would a young man like you be interested in history?’

‘So I can avoid repeating it.’

‘Do you know how gladiator fights got started?’ I asked.

Lesley indicated that not only did she not know this interesting historical fact, but that she would like me to impart it sometime before old age and death.

‘Tell me that wasn’t a spider?’ said Ms Winstanley in a deceptively calm tone.

‘Can’t have been,’ I said.

‘Thank god for that,’ she said. ‘Can’t stand spiders.’

‘It was too big,’ I said. ‘You can’t scale an exoskeleton up that far.’ The inverse square law can be such a comfort sometimes. Plus I definitely remembered something about gas diffusion and box lungs or something like that.

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Rating: 8.5/10

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