Rivers of London (Midnight Riot), Audio Book

Midnight Riot, Audio Book (2012) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Rivers of London)

So Newton, like all good seventeenth-century intellectuals, wrote in Latin because that was the international language of science, philosophy and, I found out later, upmarket pornography.

“You’ve been dead for two hundred years, Henry,” I said. “I’m fairly certain you can’t murder someone who’s already dead.” If you could, I thought, the Met would have a form for it.

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.

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Rating: 9.5/10

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