Name: BROKEN HOMES by Ben Aaronovitch, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith by OrionBooks in Rivers of London Playlist
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Description: An extract from BROKEN HOMES, the 4th Peter Grant novel by Ben Aaronovitch and read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. And the perfect reason why one should never show off at a kid's birthday party...

Rivers of London Playlist

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I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that's how I know my Argo from my Tempo. And it's why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing. Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint like a wax cylinder recording. Cyrus Wilkinson, part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant, had apparently dropped dead of a heart attack just after finishing a gig in a Soho jazz club. He wasn't the first. 

No one was going to let me exhume corpses to see if they were playing my tune, so it was back to old-fashioned legwork, starting in Soho, the heart of the scene. I didn't trust the lovely Simone, Cyrus' ex-lover, professional jazz kitten and as inviting as a Rubens' portrait, but I needed her help: there were monsters stalking Soho, creatures feeding off that special gift that separates the great musician from someone who can raise a decent tune. What they take is beauty. What they leave behind is sickness, failure and broken lives.

And as I hunted them, my investigation got tangled up in another story: a brilliant trumpet player, Richard 'Lord' Grant - my father - who managed to destroy his own career, twice. That's the thing about policing: most of the time you're doing it to maintain public order. Occasionally you're doing it for justice. And maybe once in a career, you're doing it for revenge.

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MOON OVER SOHO by Ben Aaronovitch, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

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Peter Grant is back in Ben Aaronovitch’s third instalment of the brilliant crime series. In Whispers Underground, something horrible is happening in the labyrinth of tunnels that make up the tube system in the ancient foundations of London. Time to call in the Met's Economic and Specialist Crime Unit 9, aka 'The Folly'. Time to call in PC Peter Grant, Britains Last Wizard.

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WHISPERS UNDER GROUND by Ben Aaronovitch, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

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Where it all began - meet PC Peter Grant, left out in the cold following an unusual murder, as he meets an unlikely witness...

This is an extract from RIVERS OF LONDON, the first PC Peter Grant novel by Ben Aaronovitch, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.

RIVERS OF LONDON by Ben Aaronovitch, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

An extract from BROKEN HOMES, the 4th Peter Grant novel by Ben Aaronovitch and read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. And the perfect reason why one should never show off at a kid's birthday party...

BROKEN HOMES by Ben Aaronovitch, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

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In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London - to a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit that there might be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some local children. But while you can take the London copper out of London you can't take the London out of the copper.

Travelling west with Beverley Brook Peter soon finds himself caught up in a deep mystery and having to tackle local cops and local gods. And what's more all the shops are closed by 4pm...

Sales for Broken Homes in trade leapt by 50% over Whispers Under Ground, confirming that Ben Aaronovitch is an author with an unrivalled eye for a bestselling story.

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FOXGLOVE SUMMER by Ben Aaronovitch, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

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Four months. Four weddings. One happy ending...

Bea, Lizzie, Hannah and Kat - die-hard romcom fans - have always joked about getting married in the same year: their own 'Four Weddings' summer. But when Bea unexpectedly turns down her boyfriend's proposal, the rest of the girls decide she needs a little Richard Curtis-esque meet-cute.
 
As Bea's friends set her up with a different date for each wedding in an attempt to find her own Hugh Grant, while navigating their own nuptial complications, Bea is more and more certain that she doesn't want a big white wedding - especially as it seems that there might not be any happy-ever-afters this year, let alone four...

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BROKEN HOMES by Ben Aaronovitch, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

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