Broken Homes

Name: Broken Homes
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
ISBN: 9798318546167

Author: Ben Aaronovitch

Series: Rivers of London

Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/06/2026

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, Fantasy, Contemporary

Synopsis

Ben Aaronovitch's bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series
A mutilated body in Crawley. A killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil, possibly an associate of the twisted wizard known as the Faceless Man. Or maybe just a garden-variety serial killer.

Before apprentice wizard and Police Constable Peter Grant can even get his head 'round the case, two more are dropped in his lap: a town planner has gone under a tube train, and there's a stolen grimoire for Grant to track down.

So far, so London.

But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening on a housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans, and inhabited by the truly desperate.

Is there a connection?

And if there is, why oh why did it have to be South of the River—in the jurisdiction of some pretty prickly local river spirits?

About Ben Aaronovitch

Before becoming a bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch was a screenwriter for Doctor Who and a bookseller at Waterstones. He now writes full-time, and every book in his Rivers of London series has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. He is published in fourteen languages and has sold more than 2 million copies around the world. Aaronovitch is also a trustee on the board of Cityread London and is a long-time supporter of Nigeria's premiere arts and cultural festival, The Ake Festival. He still lives in London, the city he likes to refer to as "the capital of the world."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on September 01, 2021

Re-Read 8/31/21: Still as good the second time through. Lesley is someone special to me. Maybe that's why... Well, this one is also a hard one to get through. Well worth the re-read, however. Original Review: This series seems to be only getting better. The characters are getting more fascinating and th......more

Goodreads review by Philip on February 25, 2017

3.5ish stars. In some ways this is the most satisfying yet, in others it's the most frustrating. As is typical for the series, the plot is... meandering. More here than in previous books even, despite it's return to what seems to be the overarching plot line connecting the books. And I feel like that......more

Goodreads review by Lois on August 12, 2013

Well, this was a delightful part of a story... Ends on one or more cliffhangers, rather more so than a couple of the prior episodes. Aaronovitch had better be careful in traffic for the next year, just sayin'. And no smoking. Take small bites and chew carefully, etc. That said, it gave me a lot of the......more