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A wry, geeky blend of supernatural mystery and police procedural set against the eerie backdrop of suburban London. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Rivers of London.
- eerie
- urban
- mysterious
- gritty
- 01
Whispers Underground
Ben Aaronovitch
A wry, subterranean police procedural where dry British bureaucracy meets ancient, underground magic.
- 02
Foxglove Summer
Ben Aaronovitch
A wry, fish-out-of-water magical procedural where ancient folklore bleeds into a modern rural missing-persons case.
- 03
A Study in Emerald
Neil Gaiman
A gaslit, reality-bending mystery that wraps cosmic horror in the comforting tweed of a Victorian detective story.
- 04
Doctor Who
Nick Abadzis
A charmingly eccentric yet shadowy cosmic adventure where two burdened strangers find escape in the stars.
- 05
Black magick
Greg Rucka
A tense, shadowy procedural where the mundane grit of detective work collides with the perilous secrets of the occult.
- 06
Jim Butcher's the Dresden files
Jim Butcher · 2008
A wisecracking, spell-slinging noir adventure through the shadowy, monster-infested underbelly of Chicago.
- 07
Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
A darkly whimsical plunge into a grimy, magical metropolis hidden just beneath the cracks of the ordinary world.
- 08
John Constantine, Hellblazer
Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
A gritty, hallucinatory road trip through grief, where a broken mystic confronts the ghosts of his past and the demons within his own mind.
- 09
A hard day's knight
Simon R. Green
A gritty, hardboiled plunge into the shadowy, secret underbelly of London where legendary myths meet private investigation.
- 10
John Constantine, Hellblazer
Jamie Delano
A gritty, dread-soaked plunge into the seductive and dangerous world of magic, guided by a weary practitioner who knows its terrible price.
- 11
The good, the bad, and the uncanny
Simon R. Green
A gritty, supernatural noir where a cynical detective is thrust into a deadly power vacuum in a shadowy, magical London.
- 12
Storm Front
Jim Butcher
A rain-slicked, wisecracking noir where the private eye just happens to carry a blasting rod instead of a revolver.
