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* CryingWolf: In ''Cry Fox'', [[spoiler:Ludmila Yakunina]] gets some of this from DI Stephanopoulos when she reports [[spoiler:that her daughter Anya has been kidnapped, due to the fact that one of the crimes for which she is in jail is staging the kidnapping of said daughter. However, the police investigation quickly finds that Anna Yakunina is actually missing, confirming Ludmila's statement.]]
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* ThisPageWillSelfDestruct: In ''Cry Fox'', [[spoiler:Ludmila Yakunina Yakunina]] is delivered a mobile phone in prison [[spoiler:in prison]] with which she is contacted by her daughter's kidnappers. At the end of the conversation, she is advised to throw the phone away as it's been rigged to self-destruct with acid on command.]]
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* CallBack: A minor plotline in ''Black Mould'' involves Nightingale and Thomas Debden dealing with an ice-cream truck containing the last part from the haunted BMW from ''Body Work'', an [=MP3=] player.
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** A minor plotline in ''Black Mould'' involves Nightingale and Thomas Debden dealing with an ice-cream truck containing the last part from the haunted BMW from ''Body Work'', an [=MP3=]player.player.
** ''Cry Fox'' kicks off with [[spoiler:the kidnapping of Ludmila Yakunina's daughter, now in foster care, for a ransom and more sinister purposes. As well, at the beginning, Peter, Nightingale and Varvara go into a demimonde pub to deliver a warning to people trying to hire fae to attack the Night Witch that she's under the Folly's protection.]]
** A minor plotline in ''Black Mould'' involves Nightingale and Thomas Debden dealing with an ice-cream truck containing the last part from the haunted BMW from ''Body Work'', an [=MP3=]
** ''Cry Fox'' kicks off with [[spoiler:the kidnapping of Ludmila Yakunina's daughter, now in foster care, for a ransom and more sinister purposes. As well, at the beginning, Peter, Nightingale and Varvara go into a demimonde pub to deliver a warning to people trying to hire fae to attack the Night Witch that she's under the Folly's protection.]]
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* AdultFear: In ''Cry Fox'', [[spoiler:children are being kidnapped for a sadistic hunting game. This happens to Abigail Kamara and Anna Yakunina after the former is tricked into approaching the latter.]]
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* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: In ''Night Witch'' a run in with Varvara has left a Russian Mobsters arm as forensic evidence. Peter asks the forensic investigator on sight if anybody's told the joke; ''"Well, I guess he's 'armless"'', yet. The investigator rolls her eyes and says '''everybody''' has told the joke. This becomes a [[RunningGag running gag]] when Walid asks the same question at the lab.
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* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: In ''Night Witch'' Witch'', a run in with Varvara has left a Russian Mobsters mobster's arm as forensic evidence. Peter asks the forensic investigator on sight if anybody's told the joke; ''"Well, I guess he's 'armless"'', yet. The investigator rolls her eyes and says '''everybody''' has told the joke. This becomes a [[RunningGag running gag]] when Walid asks the same question at the lab.
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* {{Mundanger}}: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:the twist is that this trope applies. There was no leshy involved. Ludmila Yakunina was responsible for her daughter's disappearance, and lied as part of her plan. However, this lie led to her husband attempting to enlist assistance from practitioners, which results in the Folly and the other police being a SpannerInTheWorks to her plan to take her daughter back to Russia.]]
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* {{Mundanger}}: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:the twist is that this trope applies. There was no leshy involved. Ludmila Yakunina was responsible for her daughter's disappearance, disappearance and lied as part of her plan. However, this lie led to her husband attempting to enlist assistance from practitioners, which results in the Folly and the other police being a SpannerInTheWorks to her plan to take her daughter back to Russia.]]]]
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: In ''Night Witch'' a run in with Varvara has left a Russian Mobsters arm as forensic evidence. Peter asks the forensic investigator on sight if anybody's told the joke; ''"Well, I guess he's 'armless"'', yet. The investigator rolls her eyes and says '''everybody''' has told the joke. This becomes a [[RunningGag running gag]] when Walid asks the same question at the lab.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: In ''Night Witch'' a run in with Varvara has left a Russian Mobsters arm as forensic evidence. Peter asks the forensic investigator on sight if anybody's told the joke; ''"Well, I guess he's 'armless"'', yet. The investigator rolls her eyes and says '''everybody''' has told the joke. This becomes a [[RunningGag running gag]] when Walid asks the same question at the lab.
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* PlayingWithFire: In the first casefile of ''Detective Stories'', [[spoiler:Tony Harden]] knew enough magic to be able to set a goat on fire, but he ''didn't'' know [[spoiler:how to do magic without giving himself brain damage, resulting in his death not that long afterwards.]]
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* PlayingWithFire: In the first casefile of ''Detective Stories'', [[spoiler:Tony Harden]] knew enough magic to be able to set a goat on fire, but he ''didn't'' know [[spoiler:how to do magic without giving himself brain damage, resulting in his death not that long afterwards.afterward.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: The first casefile of ''Detective Stories'' ends with the reveal that [[spoiler:Tony Harden, the man who set the goat on fire, learned the magic to do so from another employee of Bock, Loup & Stag named Patrick Gale, a former Little Crocodile. Gale plays a more substantial role in the novel ''Lies Sleeping'', published later.]]
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** In ''Night Witch'', Ludmila Yakunina distrusts the police and tries to persuade her husband to not get the authorities involved in the disappearance of their daughter. [[spoiler:This is because Ludmila is the one responsible, as she wants to leave her husband and take her daughter to Russia.]]]]
** In ''Detective Stories'', after the first casefile, Peter gets a text from Lesley advising him to tell DI Chopra about the "digital flasher". For the last casefile, he does.
** In ''Night Witch'', Ludmila Yakunina distrusts the police and tries to persuade her husband to not get the authorities involved in the disappearance of their daughter. [[spoiler:This is because Ludmila is the one responsible, as she wants to leave her husband and take her daughter to Russia.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: In the first casefile of ''Detective Stories'', Peter realizes that James Slack's lawyer Jack Doyle knows more about the burned goat than he seems because he mentions a "rooftop barbecue". Peter points out to DI Chopra that none of the police had mentioned cooking anything when stating why they'd brought Slack in.
* PlayingWithFire: In the first casefile of ''Detective Stories'', [[spoiler:Tony Harden]] knew enough magic to be able to set a goat on fire, but he ''didn't'' know [[spoiler:how to do magic without giving himself brain damage, resulting in his death not that long afterwards.]]
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* TorturePorn: Tony Harden, from the first case-file of ''Detective Stories'', decorated his flat with this kind of still life artwork in a deliberate attempt to desensitize himself to others' suffering.
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* SexyCoatFlashing: The final casefile of ''Detective Stories'' concerns Peter and Lesley's hunt for a male flasher wearing one of these who's been exposing himself to women in the area. [[spoiler:It turns out the flasher is actually fully-dressed under his coat and was using a special apron to project a digital image of a naked body.]]
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* SeriesContinuityError: In ''Detective Stories'', PC Purdy from ''Moon Over Soho'' is given the first name "John". In the book, his first name was Philip.
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* CallBack: A minor plotline in ''Black Mould'' involves Nightingale and Thomas Debden dealing with an ice-cream truck containing the last part from the haunted BMW from ''Body Work'', an [=MP3=] player.
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* CallForward: In the last casefile of ''Detective Stories'', set before the first book, Inspector Neblett tells an officer from CID that he's trying to get Peter out of his desire to join that unit because he believes that Peter's true skills lie in administration.
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* RashomonStyle: In the third casefile in ''Detective Stories'', a ghost and an old woman give conflicting accounts of the events leading up to the ghost's murder. It is not made clear who's telling the truth, but it's hinted that [[spoiler:it might be the old woman]].
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* {{Revenge}}: In ''Black Mould'', [[spoiler:the mould was unleashed by a woman who wanted revenge on the slumlord whose filthy properties killed her husband.]]
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* FramingDevice: ''Detective Stories'' is framed as Peter recounting some of the strangest cases of his career while undergoing an examination to officially become a detective.
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* CovertDistressCode: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Nightingale uses one in a HostageVideo he's forced to appear in that he learned working in India before World War II, involving specific words which mean certain things, and which according to the man who taught it to him works best against people who are not native English speakers.]]
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* ComicBookAdaptation: The further, illustrated adventures of Peter Grant and company.
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*** Sounding out the notes of Peter's ringtone when his phone goes off reveals it to be the ''[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Imperial March]]'', which he'd said was his usual ringtone in ''Foxglove Summer''.
*** Tamonina got awarded a Hero of the Soviet Union medal in the seventies for dealing with a compromised official who'd been visiting the first Faceless Man's twisted Soho nightclub.
*** Sounding out the notes of Peter's ringtone when his phone goes off reveals it to be the ''[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Imperial March]]'', which he'd said was his usual ringtone in ''Foxglove Summer''.
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* InformationBroker: In ''Night Witch'', Peter and Varvara visit a Russian expat described with those exact words for information on what's been going on in Russia that could lead to the Yakunins' daughter being a kidnapping target.
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* DramaticIrony: In ''Night Witch'', only the readers know [[spoiler:the full extent of the involvement of Lesley May and her boss the Faceless Man in the plot]]. Peter and Nightingale find out that Nestor Yakunin has business ties to [[spoiler:County Gard, one of the Faceless Man's front companies, but they and the other police don't know that Nestor decided to try going to the Faceless Man for help after Tamonina declined to do so, letting him, his wife and their associates be manipulated by his proxy Lesley before she stole the missing ransom. The comic even ends on Peter and Nightingale wondering who stole the ransom...]]
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* {{Interquel}}: Several of the comics are set between previously-published books in the series, as noted on the author's blog. ''Body Work'', for instance, is set between ''Broken Homes'' and ''Foxglove Summer''.
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''Rivers of London'' is a comic book {{spinoff}} of the [[Literature/RiversOfLondon book series of the same name]] by Ben Aaronovitch. The comics are co-written with Andrew Cartmel and published by Creator/TitanComics.
Volumes in the series are:
* ''Body Work''
* ''Night Witch''
* ''Black Mould''
* ''Detective Stories''
* ''Cry Fox''
* ''Water Weed''
* ''Action at a Distance''
* ''The Fey and the Furious'' (release date 2019)
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* AlliterativeTitle: '''''W'''ater '''W'''eed'' and ''The '''F'''ey and the '''F'''urious''.
* AllJustADream: Bonus story "Sleep No More" is revealed at the end to be a nightmare Stephanopoulos had. So she chucks the book that apparently gave her the dream (''The Rainbow Guide to Lesbian Fostering and Adoption'') in the bin and goes back to sleep.
* AnArmAndALeg: At the beginning of ''Night Witch'', Aleksandr, one of the mobsters who attacks the truck carrying Tamonina, loses his right arm in her counterattack.
* BadassInDistress: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Nightingale is taken prisoner by goons working for Nestor Yakunin via the means of a family being held hostage in Russia that will be killed if he tries to escape, with a live video feed transmitted to a TV in his cell. He's only able to escape after the family is rescued.]]
* BedsheetGhost: In ''Body Work'', Peter references the trope while looking at the dust sheet Nightingale removed from the haunted Bentley.
-->"Cut out some eye-holes and we could go trick or treating."
* BookEnds: The opening and closing narration of ''Body Work'' has the same saying:
-->'''Beginning:''' They say that life is something that happens while you're making other plans. Unfortunately... so is death.\\
'''Ending:''' That was the plan. But they say that life is what happens while you're making other plans. So is death. But fortunately... so is Nightingale.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In ''Body Work'', Guleed muses to herself while going through a list of people who were sold parts from a haunted car:
-->"I could have been chasing war criminals... or bankers. Or war criminal bankers..."
* BurnTheWitch: In ''Body Work'', [[spoiler:both instances of possession, in the present and 1929. have origins related to this. The possessed [=BMWs=] in the present come about because the Mapstone sisters and their friends burned an old ducking chair that a woman drowned in while being tried for witchcraft, and the 1929 incident came about because four wizards made an impulsive attempt to dispel a haunting at a monument to people who died by burning.]]
* TheCameo: Reuel [=McBeene=]-Smith, the posh drug dealer from ''Body Work'', makes an appearance in ''Night Witch'' bonus strip "Carnival Fireworks" having a brief run-in with Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina, who lights a joint he and a friend are smoking.
* CatapultNightmare: In bonus story "Sleep No More", Stephanopoulos wakes up this way from the nightmare she just had.
* CharacterTitle: ''Night Witch''.
* Continuity Nod:
** ''Body Work'': When Peter mentions that Nightingale wants him to be more discreet, Guleed reminds him that he knocked down a tower block and set Covent Garden on fire.
** ''Night Witch'': Tamonina got awarded a Hero of the Soviet Union medal in the seventies for dealing with a compromised official who'd been visiting the first Faceless Man's twisted Soho nightclub.
* CovertDistressCode: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Nightingale uses one in a HostageVideo he's forced to appear in that he learned working in India before World War II, involving specific words which mean certain things, and which according to the man who taught it to him works best against people who are not native English speakers.]]
* CrystalBall: In ''Body Work'', after Nightingale removes a supernaturally-contaminated windscreen from one of the possessed [=BMWs=], he uses magic to compress it into a perfect sphere. Debden immediately wonders if it's possible to see the future in it.
* DemonicPossession: In ''Body Work'', this is what drives the plot. [[spoiler:The Mapstone sisters and their friends burned an old, hated antique at a picnic, which was actually a ducking chair used for witchcraft trials that a woman died in. This releases a vengeful entity which possesses Celeste Mapstone's new car and her sister Kimberly, the only person not drinking or taking drugs that night. A similar incident in 1929, where four young wizards attempted to dispel a haunting at a monument to people executed for witchcraft, led to another haunted car and the possession of the only sober wizard present, who later hung himself. Then, after Celeste notices the effect the car is having on her sister, she brings it to a scrapyard to be destroyed, but the mechanic, not knowing the full story or the existence of the supernatural, simply breaks it up for parts and installs said parts in several other cars of the same make...]]
* DramaticIrony: In ''Night Witch'', only the readers know [[spoiler:the full extent of the involvement of Lesley May and her boss the Faceless Man in the plot]]. Peter and Nightingale find out that Nestor Yakunin has business ties to [[spoiler:County Gard, one of the Faceless Man's front companies, but they and the other police don't know that Nestor decided to try going to the Faceless Man for help after Tamonina declined to do so, letting him, his wife and their associates be manipulated by his proxy Lesley before she stole the missing ransom. The comic even ends on Peter and Nightingale wondering who stole the ransom...]]
* DrivenToSuicide: In ''Body Work'', it is revealed that in 1929 [[spoiler:Archie Boatright, a Folly magician and friend of Nightingale, killed himself after being driven mad through possession by a vengeful entity]].
* FakedKidnapping: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:the missing girl has in fact been tucked away in a secluded house by her mother, Ludmila Yakunina, who intends to leave her husband and return to Russia with her daughter, because she misses her homeland and thinks her daughter is becoming too English. Ludmila just needs the hefty ransom from Nestor in order to have a nest egg for her new life. It would have worked if she hadn't decided to claim that a magical creature had been the abductor...]]
* FingerSnapLighter: Tamonina does this in a ''Night Witch'' bonus strip to light a spliff being smoked by Reuel [=McBeene=]-Smith and his friend.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In ''Night Witch'', Ludmila Yakunina distrusts the police and tries to persuade her husband to not the authorities involved in the disappearance of their daughter. [[spoiler:This is because Ludmila is the one responsible, as she wants to leave her husband and take her daughter to Russia.]]
* GratuitousRussian: The covers of ''Night Witch'' all have the title in Russian on the front since the titular character, Tamonina, is Russian (Ночные Колдуньи, ''Nochnye Koldunyi''). This does not extend to the trade paperback, sadly.
* HistoryRepeats: ''Body Work'' is about an incident involving possessed automobiles in the present day that echoes something that happened in 1929.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Ludmila Yakunina's plan to leave her husband and return to Russia with her daughter, the ransom money paid by her husband and, hopefully, her lover goes sideways thanks to her decision to initially claim that she'd seen the signs of the abduction being perpetrated by a leshy, a Russian forest spirit. This leads her husband Nestor to try and recruit the aid of practitioners in solving the case: first Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina, which gets the Folly involved; and then the Faceless Man, who sends Lesley May. This leads to the ransom money being stolen by Lesley after she and her boss manipulate the conspirators into a bad position, and Ludmila's arrest after she tries to shoot her husband during a robbery attempt and her lover takes the bullet for Nestor. (Nestor is also arrested for, among other things, kidnapping a police officer.)]]
* HostageSituation: ''Night Witch'' has this more than once.
** [[spoiler:Lesley May]] advises the Yakunins that the best way for them to put pressure on the Folly is with one of these, and suggests the civilian [[spoiler:Beverley Brook]] because she's [[spoiler:Peter's girlfriend]]. However, [[spoiler:Lesley]] is perfectly well aware that [[spoiler:Beverley, as one of the Rivers, is more than the Yakunins' Russian Mafia thugs will be able to handle. Her true intent in this is to place the Yakunins in a position where whatever they do next will be beneficial to her, which works perfectly.]]
** After the above first try fails, Nestor Yakunin pulls a twofer by capturing [[spoiler:Nightingale]] via having a family in Russia held hostage and shown to him via live video, with the threat that they will be killed if he doesn't submit. Ultimately, [[spoiler:Tamonina is forced to make a call to a former comrade in Russia to ensure the family's rescue, thus allowing Nightingale to escape.]]
* HostageVideo: ''Night Witch'' has two instances:
** After [[spoiler:Nightingale's]] abduction, Peter is e-mailed a video of him explaining the kidnappers' demands, in which he's inserted a code message using specific words to [[spoiler:give Peter instructions about what he wants him to do]].
** [[spoiler:Nightingale]] is kidnapped in the first place by being shown a live broadcast of a family being held hostage in Russia, with a guard under orders to kill them if [[spoiler:Nightingale]] escapes or resists capture.
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* ImagineSpot: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Nightingale outlines exactly how he would escape from where he's being held and how long he expects it would take him. However, he doesn't dare because of the family being held hostage with their lives in danger if he tries.]]
* {{Interquel}}: Several of the comics are set between previously-published books in the series, as noted on the author's blog. ''Body Work'', for instance, is set between ''Broken Homes'' and ''Foxglove Summer''.
* MarijuanaIsLSD: In a very mild example, in the bonus strip "Carnival Fireworks", Reuel [=McBeene=]-Smith and friend's reactions to seeing Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina light their joint with a flame from her finger is to conclude that "This is great weed!"
* MuggingTheMonster: Some Russian mobsters try to infiltrate the home of [[spoiler:Beverley Brook]] in ''Night Witch''. Unsurprisingly, they end up [[spoiler:''cleaning'' the house instead of doing any harm]].
* {{Mundanger}}: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:the twist is that this trope applies. There was no leshy involved. Ludmila Yakunina was responsible for her daughter's disappearance, and lied as part of her plan. However, this lie led to her husband attempting to enlist assistance from practitioners, which results in the Folly and the other police being a SpannerInTheWorks to her plan to take her daughter back to Russia.]]
* OhCrap:
** In ''Body Work'', the reaction of Kim Mapstone's friends when [[spoiler:she starts driving towards the pond near her house and won't stop, when they pull her hands off the wheel only to find the vehicle is driving itself, when a crowd of angry people from the 1600s in full BurnTheWitch mode appear in the car windows, and finally when the car goes in the water]].
* PopTheTires: At the beginning of ''Night Witch'', one of the mobsters uses an expandable spike strip against the truck carrying Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina so the van with the rest of the Russian Mafia members can force the truck to stop.
* PlayingDrunk: In bonus strip "General Vodka", Peter and Nightingale pretend they're passed-out drunk as Varvara boasts of having won the drinking contest they were all partaking in.
* RobbingTheMobBank: ''Water Weed'' kicks off when Chelsea and Olympia Thames hijack the boat of a drug courier on the river.
* SelfRestraint: In ''Night Witch'', Varvara Tamonina points out that she's perfectly capable of escaping from the prison she's serving her sentence in any time, but that she hasn't says something about her.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In ''Night Witch'', Tamonina expresses the idea that doing good gets you nothing, speaking from how she became a POW in World War II.
* StabTheSalad: In the "Tales from the Folly" vignette "Red Mist", Molly is seen wielding a knife ominously while red stuff sprays everywhere and someone whimpers. Naturally, she's just chopping tomatoes, and the whimpering is Toby begging for a sausage.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In ''Body Work'', Nightingale is looking for Peter, who isn't answering his phone. So he goes and asks Beverley Brook and Nathaniel the troll, neither of whom know where Peter is either. The latter, however, tells Nightingale that he should just ask the other police, and suggests that Nightingale didn't think of that because until recently he usually worked alone.
* SwordCane: Nightingale has one in ''Black Mould''.
* TakingTheBullet: At the end of ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Semyon Petrovich]] is killed protecting [[spoiler:Nestor Yakunin]] this way. The shooter, [[spoiler:Ludmila Yakunina]], is very upset as [[spoiler:she had been hoping he would come with her back to Russia]].
* TorturePorn: Tony Harden, from the first case-file of ''Detective Stories'', decorated his flat with this kind of still life artwork in a deliberate attempt to desensitize himself to others' suffering.
* TrappedInASinkingCar: ''Body Work'' kicks off with Euan Ferguson drowning after his car plunges into the Thames. [[spoiler:At the end, the same fate nearly befalls the possessed Kimberly Mapstone and her two friends after the entity possessing her makes her drive the last of the possessed automobiles into a duck pond, but fortunately Nightingale arrives and rips the top off of the car, allowing them to float right up.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: In ''Body Work'', Kimberly Mapstone's account of the drugged-out picnic and what happened afterwards [[spoiler:turns out to be skewed by the fact that her status as the only person who stayed sober that night led to her possession by the same entity that also inhabited her sister's car]].
* UnwantedRescue: ''Night Witch'' starts off with an attempt to "rescue" Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina from a prison transport van. She refutes the offer with an ice attack, as she just wants to finish her sentence and live in peace.
* VehicularAssault: ''Body Work'' is about cars attacking people. [[spoiler:They're all [=BMWs=] repaired with replacement parts from a specific BMW possessed by a vengeful entity released by the burning of an old ducking stool, which the owner attempted to have destroyed after she realized there was something wrong with it. The car that got the engine drives its owner into the Thames, and the one with the windshield causes the driver to hit the owner of the original car by making him see her as a soldier he saw committing war crimes in Bosnia. The last car, once driven by the possessed Kimberly Mapstone, makes her drive into the ducking pond before she and her friends are rescued by Nightingale.]]
* VehicularKidnapping: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Nightingale is made to get into a van and is driven away after being shown a live broadcast of hostages who ''will'' be killed if he tries to resist or escape.]]
* VehicularSabotage: Part of the backstory of ''Body Work''. Julie Goring poured water into the fuel tank of her ex Euan Ferguson's car in an attempt to get him to take her back. He didn't press charges because she knew a place where the repairs could be done cheap — Thomas Debden's scrapyard. This led to Ferguson's death, as the new engine came from [[spoiler:a car possessed by a malign entity]], leading to his car going into the Thames, where he drowned.
* WomanScorned: In the backstory of ''Body Work'', Julie Goring poured water into the fuel tank of her ex-boyfriend Euan Ferguson's car in an unsuccessful attempt to get him to take her back. This ultimately led to Ferguson's death when Julie offered to pay for the repairs because she knew a mechanic who'd do it for cheap, and he installed the engine of a car of the same make that he'd broken down for parts, which had, unfortunately, [[spoiler:been possessed by a malign entity]], leading the car to drive into the Thames with Ferguson inside.
* XanatosGambit: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:the Faceless Man advises Lesley over the phone that people are unreliable, so it's hard to get them to do what you want. Instead, the trick is to arrange things so that whatever someone does is ultimately in your benefit. The story itself has elements of this, as Lesley manipulates the Yakunins and company so that they're both arrested while Lesley scarpers off with the ransom money, with the police unaware at the end that she was ever involved in the first place, by telling Nestor Yakunin that the best thing to do to put pressure on the Folly was to try and hold Beverley Brook, a goddess with the power of glamour, hostage.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: In ''Night Witch'', it turns out that [[spoiler:Ludmila Yakunina has apparently been cheating on her husband at least part of the time with his chief of security Semyon Petrovich. Part of her plan to return to Russia involves inviting him along, as she hopes they can be together. However, he wasn't aware of her plans.]]
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''Rivers of London'' is a comic book {{spinoff}} of the [[Literature/RiversOfLondon book series of the same name]] by Ben Aaronovitch. The comics are co-written with Andrew Cartmel and published by Creator/TitanComics.
Volumes in the series are:
* ''Body Work''
* ''Night Witch''
* ''Black Mould''
* ''Detective Stories''
* ''Cry Fox''
* ''Water Weed''
* ''Action at a Distance''
* ''The Fey and the Furious'' (release date 2019)
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!!Tropes:
* AlliterativeTitle: '''''W'''ater '''W'''eed'' and ''The '''F'''ey and the '''F'''urious''.
* AllJustADream: Bonus story "Sleep No More" is revealed at the end to be a nightmare Stephanopoulos had. So she chucks the book that apparently gave her the dream (''The Rainbow Guide to Lesbian Fostering and Adoption'') in the bin and goes back to sleep.
* AnArmAndALeg: At the beginning of ''Night Witch'', Aleksandr, one of the mobsters who attacks the truck carrying Tamonina, loses his right arm in her counterattack.
* BadassInDistress: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Nightingale is taken prisoner by goons working for Nestor Yakunin via the means of a family being held hostage in Russia that will be killed if he tries to escape, with a live video feed transmitted to a TV in his cell. He's only able to escape after the family is rescued.]]
* BedsheetGhost: In ''Body Work'', Peter references the trope while looking at the dust sheet Nightingale removed from the haunted Bentley.
-->"Cut out some eye-holes and we could go trick or treating."
* BookEnds: The opening and closing narration of ''Body Work'' has the same saying:
-->'''Beginning:''' They say that life is something that happens while you're making other plans. Unfortunately... so is death.\\
'''Ending:''' That was the plan. But they say that life is what happens while you're making other plans. So is death. But fortunately... so is Nightingale.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In ''Body Work'', Guleed muses to herself while going through a list of people who were sold parts from a haunted car:
-->"I could have been chasing war criminals... or bankers. Or war criminal bankers..."
* BurnTheWitch: In ''Body Work'', [[spoiler:both instances of possession, in the present and 1929. have origins related to this. The possessed [=BMWs=] in the present come about because the Mapstone sisters and their friends burned an old ducking chair that a woman drowned in while being tried for witchcraft, and the 1929 incident came about because four wizards made an impulsive attempt to dispel a haunting at a monument to people who died by burning.]]
* TheCameo: Reuel [=McBeene=]-Smith, the posh drug dealer from ''Body Work'', makes an appearance in ''Night Witch'' bonus strip "Carnival Fireworks" having a brief run-in with Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina, who lights a joint he and a friend are smoking.
* CatapultNightmare: In bonus story "Sleep No More", Stephanopoulos wakes up this way from the nightmare she just had.
* CharacterTitle: ''Night Witch''.
* Continuity Nod:
** ''Body Work'': When Peter mentions that Nightingale wants him to be more discreet, Guleed reminds him that he knocked down a tower block and set Covent Garden on fire.
** ''Night Witch'': Tamonina got awarded a Hero of the Soviet Union medal in the seventies for dealing with a compromised official who'd been visiting the first Faceless Man's twisted Soho nightclub.
* CovertDistressCode: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Nightingale uses one in a HostageVideo he's forced to appear in that he learned working in India before World War II, involving specific words which mean certain things, and which according to the man who taught it to him works best against people who are not native English speakers.]]
* CrystalBall: In ''Body Work'', after Nightingale removes a supernaturally-contaminated windscreen from one of the possessed [=BMWs=], he uses magic to compress it into a perfect sphere. Debden immediately wonders if it's possible to see the future in it.
* DemonicPossession: In ''Body Work'', this is what drives the plot. [[spoiler:The Mapstone sisters and their friends burned an old, hated antique at a picnic, which was actually a ducking chair used for witchcraft trials that a woman died in. This releases a vengeful entity which possesses Celeste Mapstone's new car and her sister Kimberly, the only person not drinking or taking drugs that night. A similar incident in 1929, where four young wizards attempted to dispel a haunting at a monument to people executed for witchcraft, led to another haunted car and the possession of the only sober wizard present, who later hung himself. Then, after Celeste notices the effect the car is having on her sister, she brings it to a scrapyard to be destroyed, but the mechanic, not knowing the full story or the existence of the supernatural, simply breaks it up for parts and installs said parts in several other cars of the same make...]]
* DramaticIrony: In ''Night Witch'', only the readers know [[spoiler:the full extent of the involvement of Lesley May and her boss the Faceless Man in the plot]]. Peter and Nightingale find out that Nestor Yakunin has business ties to [[spoiler:County Gard, one of the Faceless Man's front companies, but they and the other police don't know that Nestor decided to try going to the Faceless Man for help after Tamonina declined to do so, letting him, his wife and their associates be manipulated by his proxy Lesley before she stole the missing ransom. The comic even ends on Peter and Nightingale wondering who stole the ransom...]]
* DrivenToSuicide: In ''Body Work'', it is revealed that in 1929 [[spoiler:Archie Boatright, a Folly magician and friend of Nightingale, killed himself after being driven mad through possession by a vengeful entity]].
* FakedKidnapping: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:the missing girl has in fact been tucked away in a secluded house by her mother, Ludmila Yakunina, who intends to leave her husband and return to Russia with her daughter, because she misses her homeland and thinks her daughter is becoming too English. Ludmila just needs the hefty ransom from Nestor in order to have a nest egg for her new life. It would have worked if she hadn't decided to claim that a magical creature had been the abductor...]]
* FingerSnapLighter: Tamonina does this in a ''Night Witch'' bonus strip to light a spliff being smoked by Reuel [=McBeene=]-Smith and his friend.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In ''Night Witch'', Ludmila Yakunina distrusts the police and tries to persuade her husband to not the authorities involved in the disappearance of their daughter. [[spoiler:This is because Ludmila is the one responsible, as she wants to leave her husband and take her daughter to Russia.]]
* GratuitousRussian: The covers of ''Night Witch'' all have the title in Russian on the front since the titular character, Tamonina, is Russian (Ночные Колдуньи, ''Nochnye Koldunyi''). This does not extend to the trade paperback, sadly.
* HistoryRepeats: ''Body Work'' is about an incident involving possessed automobiles in the present day that echoes something that happened in 1929.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Ludmila Yakunina's plan to leave her husband and return to Russia with her daughter, the ransom money paid by her husband and, hopefully, her lover goes sideways thanks to her decision to initially claim that she'd seen the signs of the abduction being perpetrated by a leshy, a Russian forest spirit. This leads her husband Nestor to try and recruit the aid of practitioners in solving the case: first Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina, which gets the Folly involved; and then the Faceless Man, who sends Lesley May. This leads to the ransom money being stolen by Lesley after she and her boss manipulate the conspirators into a bad position, and Ludmila's arrest after she tries to shoot her husband during a robbery attempt and her lover takes the bullet for Nestor. (Nestor is also arrested for, among other things, kidnapping a police officer.)]]
* HostageSituation: ''Night Witch'' has this more than once.
** [[spoiler:Lesley May]] advises the Yakunins that the best way for them to put pressure on the Folly is with one of these, and suggests the civilian [[spoiler:Beverley Brook]] because she's [[spoiler:Peter's girlfriend]]. However, [[spoiler:Lesley]] is perfectly well aware that [[spoiler:Beverley, as one of the Rivers, is more than the Yakunins' Russian Mafia thugs will be able to handle. Her true intent in this is to place the Yakunins in a position where whatever they do next will be beneficial to her, which works perfectly.]]
** After the above first try fails, Nestor Yakunin pulls a twofer by capturing [[spoiler:Nightingale]] via having a family in Russia held hostage and shown to him via live video, with the threat that they will be killed if he doesn't submit. Ultimately, [[spoiler:Tamonina is forced to make a call to a former comrade in Russia to ensure the family's rescue, thus allowing Nightingale to escape.]]
* HostageVideo: ''Night Witch'' has two instances:
** After [[spoiler:Nightingale's]] abduction, Peter is e-mailed a video of him explaining the kidnappers' demands, in which he's inserted a code message using specific words to [[spoiler:give Peter instructions about what he wants him to do]].
** [[spoiler:Nightingale]] is kidnapped in the first place by being shown a live broadcast of a family being held hostage in Russia, with a guard under orders to kill them if [[spoiler:Nightingale]] escapes or resists capture.
%%* HumanoidAbomination:
* ImagineSpot: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Nightingale outlines exactly how he would escape from where he's being held and how long he expects it would take him. However, he doesn't dare because of the family being held hostage with their lives in danger if he tries.]]
* {{Interquel}}: Several of the comics are set between previously-published books in the series, as noted on the author's blog. ''Body Work'', for instance, is set between ''Broken Homes'' and ''Foxglove Summer''.
* MarijuanaIsLSD: In a very mild example, in the bonus strip "Carnival Fireworks", Reuel [=McBeene=]-Smith and friend's reactions to seeing Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina light their joint with a flame from her finger is to conclude that "This is great weed!"
* MuggingTheMonster: Some Russian mobsters try to infiltrate the home of [[spoiler:Beverley Brook]] in ''Night Witch''. Unsurprisingly, they end up [[spoiler:''cleaning'' the house instead of doing any harm]].
* {{Mundanger}}: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:the twist is that this trope applies. There was no leshy involved. Ludmila Yakunina was responsible for her daughter's disappearance, and lied as part of her plan. However, this lie led to her husband attempting to enlist assistance from practitioners, which results in the Folly and the other police being a SpannerInTheWorks to her plan to take her daughter back to Russia.]]
* OhCrap:
** In ''Body Work'', the reaction of Kim Mapstone's friends when [[spoiler:she starts driving towards the pond near her house and won't stop, when they pull her hands off the wheel only to find the vehicle is driving itself, when a crowd of angry people from the 1600s in full BurnTheWitch mode appear in the car windows, and finally when the car goes in the water]].
* PopTheTires: At the beginning of ''Night Witch'', one of the mobsters uses an expandable spike strip against the truck carrying Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina so the van with the rest of the Russian Mafia members can force the truck to stop.
* PlayingDrunk: In bonus strip "General Vodka", Peter and Nightingale pretend they're passed-out drunk as Varvara boasts of having won the drinking contest they were all partaking in.
* RobbingTheMobBank: ''Water Weed'' kicks off when Chelsea and Olympia Thames hijack the boat of a drug courier on the river.
* SelfRestraint: In ''Night Witch'', Varvara Tamonina points out that she's perfectly capable of escaping from the prison she's serving her sentence in any time, but that she hasn't says something about her.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In ''Night Witch'', Tamonina expresses the idea that doing good gets you nothing, speaking from how she became a POW in World War II.
* StabTheSalad: In the "Tales from the Folly" vignette "Red Mist", Molly is seen wielding a knife ominously while red stuff sprays everywhere and someone whimpers. Naturally, she's just chopping tomatoes, and the whimpering is Toby begging for a sausage.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In ''Body Work'', Nightingale is looking for Peter, who isn't answering his phone. So he goes and asks Beverley Brook and Nathaniel the troll, neither of whom know where Peter is either. The latter, however, tells Nightingale that he should just ask the other police, and suggests that Nightingale didn't think of that because until recently he usually worked alone.
* SwordCane: Nightingale has one in ''Black Mould''.
* TakingTheBullet: At the end of ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Semyon Petrovich]] is killed protecting [[spoiler:Nestor Yakunin]] this way. The shooter, [[spoiler:Ludmila Yakunina]], is very upset as [[spoiler:she had been hoping he would come with her back to Russia]].
* TorturePorn: Tony Harden, from the first case-file of ''Detective Stories'', decorated his flat with this kind of still life artwork in a deliberate attempt to desensitize himself to others' suffering.
* TrappedInASinkingCar: ''Body Work'' kicks off with Euan Ferguson drowning after his car plunges into the Thames. [[spoiler:At the end, the same fate nearly befalls the possessed Kimberly Mapstone and her two friends after the entity possessing her makes her drive the last of the possessed automobiles into a duck pond, but fortunately Nightingale arrives and rips the top off of the car, allowing them to float right up.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: In ''Body Work'', Kimberly Mapstone's account of the drugged-out picnic and what happened afterwards [[spoiler:turns out to be skewed by the fact that her status as the only person who stayed sober that night led to her possession by the same entity that also inhabited her sister's car]].
* UnwantedRescue: ''Night Witch'' starts off with an attempt to "rescue" Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina from a prison transport van. She refutes the offer with an ice attack, as she just wants to finish her sentence and live in peace.
* VehicularAssault: ''Body Work'' is about cars attacking people. [[spoiler:They're all [=BMWs=] repaired with replacement parts from a specific BMW possessed by a vengeful entity released by the burning of an old ducking stool, which the owner attempted to have destroyed after she realized there was something wrong with it. The car that got the engine drives its owner into the Thames, and the one with the windshield causes the driver to hit the owner of the original car by making him see her as a soldier he saw committing war crimes in Bosnia. The last car, once driven by the possessed Kimberly Mapstone, makes her drive into the ducking pond before she and her friends are rescued by Nightingale.]]
* VehicularKidnapping: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Nightingale is made to get into a van and is driven away after being shown a live broadcast of hostages who ''will'' be killed if he tries to resist or escape.]]
* VehicularSabotage: Part of the backstory of ''Body Work''. Julie Goring poured water into the fuel tank of her ex Euan Ferguson's car in an attempt to get him to take her back. He didn't press charges because she knew a place where the repairs could be done cheap — Thomas Debden's scrapyard. This led to Ferguson's death, as the new engine came from [[spoiler:a car possessed by a malign entity]], leading to his car going into the Thames, where he drowned.
* WomanScorned: In the backstory of ''Body Work'', Julie Goring poured water into the fuel tank of her ex-boyfriend Euan Ferguson's car in an unsuccessful attempt to get him to take her back. This ultimately led to Ferguson's death when Julie offered to pay for the repairs because she knew a mechanic who'd do it for cheap, and he installed the engine of a car of the same make that he'd broken down for parts, which had, unfortunately, [[spoiler:been possessed by a malign entity]], leading the car to drive into the Thames with Ferguson inside.
* XanatosGambit: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:the Faceless Man advises Lesley over the phone that people are unreliable, so it's hard to get them to do what you want. Instead, the trick is to arrange things so that whatever someone does is ultimately in your benefit. The story itself has elements of this, as Lesley manipulates the Yakunins and company so that they're both arrested while Lesley scarpers off with the ransom money, with the police unaware at the end that she was ever involved in the first place, by telling Nestor Yakunin that the best thing to do to put pressure on the Folly was to try and hold Beverley Brook, a goddess with the power of glamour, hostage.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: In ''Night Witch'', it turns out that [[spoiler:Ludmila Yakunina has apparently been cheating on her husband at least part of the time with his chief of security Semyon Petrovich. Part of her plan to return to Russia involves inviting him along, as she hopes they can be together. However, he wasn't aware of her plans.]]
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