$5.99
| Book Title | Foxglove summer |
| Series | Rivers of London |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Author | Ben Aaronovitch |
| Publisher | Gollancz |
| Published | 2014 |
| Pages | 325 |
| Format | Mass Market Paperback |
| Condition Notes |
Used mass-market paperback in Good condition. The front shows moderate reading and shelf wear, including edge rubbing, worn corners, light creasing and surface scuffing. There is noticeable wear along the left/spine edge and lower edge, but the bright green cover remains attractive and clearly presents the title.
The back shows similar edge and corner wear, surface rubbing and scattered handling marks, with more noticeable wear along the lower edge and around the barcode/price area. No major cover tears are visible in the supplied scans. |
| Condition | Good |
London police constable and apprentice wizard Peter Grant is sent far outside his normal territory when two young girls disappear in rural Herefordshire. His assignment seems straightforward: determine whether anything supernatural is involved and, assuming it isn’t, return to London.
But Peter isn’t particularly good at walking away from people who need help. He stays to assist the local police, and what initially appears to be an ordinary missing-person investigation begins revealing increasingly strange connections.
Soon Peter finds himself dealing with local legends, mysterious inhabitants and a countryside where the boundary separating modern Britain from the world of magic and fairy is dangerously thin. The result takes the Rivers of London series out of its familiar urban environment while retaining its combination of police investigation, dry humor and supernatural mystery.
A particularly good EugeneBookStore fantasy title. The Rivers of London books combine urban fantasy with British police procedural and mystery elements, giving them appeal beyond traditional fantasy readers.
Foxglove Summer is also a useful series-building book. Ben Aaronovitch has a substantial ongoing readership, so accumulating consecutive Peter Grant volumes could make either attractive individual store inventory or a desirable multi-book set.
This is the U.S. DAW mass-market paperback edition, ISBN 9780756409661, published January 6, 2015.
The back cover carries the original $8.99 U.S. / $11.99 Canadian price.
This is Book #5 in the Rivers of London series.
