{"id":22626,"date":"2023-12-23T18:17:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T23:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22626"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:05:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:05:04","slug":"whispers-under-ground-audio-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22626","title":{"rendered":"Whispers Under Ground, Audio Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whispers Under Ground<\/em>, Audio Book<\/a> (2012) Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Rivers of London)<\/p>\n

\"Whispers<\/a><\/p>\n

My mum translated this in her head to \u201cwitchfinder,\u201d which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

this was a murder inquiry, and woe betide any officer who breaks the chain of evidence, for they will be sat down and have what went wrong with the O. J. Simpson murder trial explained to them at great length. With PowerPoint slides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seawoll dropped the mangled paper clip back into a little Perspex box, where it served, presumably, as an awful warning to the rest of the stationery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nightingale explained that they\u2019d often found runic inscriptions on demon traps. The theory was that in the original Viking designs the runes were part of the enchantment. <\/p>\n

\u201cLike the Taoists?\u201d I asked. <\/p>\n

\u201cPossibly,\u201d he said. \u201cComparative thaumatology is a discipline still in its infancy.\u201d <\/p>\n

This was a familiar Nightingale joke\u2014meaning that I was the only one currently interested in it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: Tantor Audio<\/p>\n

Rating: 9.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whispers Under Ground, Audio Book (2012) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Rivers of London) My mum translated this in her head to \u201cwitchfinder,\u201d which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman. this was a murder inquiry, and woe betide any officer who breaks the chain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[192,37,30,668,204,42,148,41,34],"tags":[57,50,482,587,58],"class_list":["post-22626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-5-10","category-audio-book","category-british","category-comfort-read","category-good","category-police","category-queer","category-reread","category-urban-fantasy","tag-ben-aaronovitch","tag-boinking","tag-kobna-holdbrook-smith","tag-peter-grant","tag-rivers-of-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5SW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20719,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20719","url_meta":{"origin":22626,"position":0},"title":"Whispers Under Ground, Audio Edition","author":"Michelle","date":"August 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Whispers Under Ground (2012) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Rivers of London) I'm enjoying this reread (relisten) of the Rivers of London series, because I'm paying attention to things I missed earlier, because I didn't necessarily catch the importance the first time through. 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