{"id":22628,"date":"2023-12-27T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22628"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:04:54","slug":"broken-homes-audio-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22628","title":{"rendered":"Broken Homes, Audio Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broken Homes<\/em>, Audio Book<\/a> (2014) Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Rivers of London)<\/p>\n

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

People have got the wrong idea about police territoriality\u2014a full-scale murder inquiry is going to set you back a quarter of a million quid minimum. If Manderly could dump it on the Met then it would be our budget and our problem, not to mention it would improve his crime counting at the end of the year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clearing out the Folly\u2019s arsenal the year before had been an education in twentieth-century anti-personnel weapons and just how many decades you could leave them to rust before they became dangerously unstable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A quiet crowd is a bit of a worry to a copper, since a noisy crowd is one that\u2019s telegraphing what it\u2019s going to do next. A quiet crowd means that people are watching and thinking. And that\u2019s always dangerous, on the off chance that what they\u2019re thinking is, I wonder what would happen if I lobbed this half brick at that particularly handsome young police officer over there<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: DAW<\/p>\n

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

Broken Homes, Audio Book (2014) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Rivers of London) People have got the wrong idea about police territoriality\u2014a full-scale murder inquiry is going to set you back a quarter of a million quid minimum. If Manderly could dump it on the Met then it would be our budget and our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[192,30,668,204,8,42,148,41,34],"tags":[57,482,587,58],"class_list":["post-22628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-5-10","category-british","category-comfort-read","category-good","category-mystery","category-police","category-queer","category-reread","category-urban-fantasy","tag-ben-aaronovitch","tag-kobna-holdbrook-smith","tag-peter-grant","tag-rivers-of-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5SY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11293,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11293","url_meta":{"origin":22628,"position":0},"title":"Broken Homes, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"December 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Broken Homes, Audio Version (2013) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith First, we meet Varvara Sidorovna. \u201cNochnye Koldunyi,\u201d said Nightingale. \u201cA Night Witch.\u201d \u201cIs that like a person or another thing?\u201d asked Lesley. \u201cLike Peter\u2019s Pale Lady?\u201d \u201cA type of Russian practitioner,\u201d said Nightingale. \u201cRecruited during the war, the training\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "10\/10"","block_context":{"text":"10\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/10-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/broken-homes.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4936,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4936","url_meta":{"origin":22628,"position":1},"title":"Whispers Under Ground, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"November 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Whispers Under Ground Audible version (2012\/2012) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith I am enjoying listening to this series so much. 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