History ComicBook / RiversOfLondon

* RewatchBonus: The party scene in ''Water Weed'' reads very differently once you know that [[spoiler: Kitty Butchart is the Hoodette. She's not trying to leave because she's upset Reuel is thinking about dealing again, she's trying to avoid being connected to her own product.]]

* ''The Fey and the Furious'' (begins November 2019)

* ArtShift: In ''Night Witch'', a flashback to Varvara getting stoned in TheSeventies does one to the art style of Creator/RobertCrumb.

* 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...]]

** 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.

* 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.)]]

* 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.

* RewatchBonus: The party scene in ''Water Weed'' reads very differently once you know that [[spoiler: Kitty Butchart is the Hoodette. She's not trying to leave because she's upset Ruel is thinking about dealing again, she's trying to avoid being connected to her own product.]]

* KarmaHoudini: In ''Water Weed'' [[spoiler: the Hoodette, a sadistic drug dealer guilty of multiple attempted murders gets a slap on the wrist in court because she has a tragic backstory and few people are willing to testify.]]

* 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.]]

* 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.

* CallForward: The last casefile of ''Detective Stories'', set before the first book, includes a bunch of nods to Peter's later career, starting with the first panel opening with Peter and Lesley standing outside Covent Garden’s Punch & Judy pub. Later in the story, they meet a colleague who goes on to play a small but significant role in the second novel. 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.

* 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.

* TrackingDevice: In ''Cry Fox'', [[spoiler:Abigail and Guleed]] get ankle monitors when they're kidnapped by a group of sadistic rich people who want to {{hunt|ingTheMostDangerousGame}} them. [[spoiler:Abigail steals a letter opener and some wires to mislead the pursuers, but it turns out they put a tracker inside the letter opener as well, leading the hunters to nearly catch up with them before Nightingale turns up.]]

* 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.]]

* 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.

* BathroomBreakOut: ''Cry Fox'' begins in a demimonde pub that Reynard Fossman apparently has a habit of departing from via the window in the gent's. He's unable to do so ''this'' time because the window has been replaced.

*** [[spoiler:Abigail and Guleed's]] reactions when they're told they're being forced to be targets in a human hunt. During the hunt, they then get this reaction when [[spoiler:after removing their tracking bracelets, the hunters still seem to know where they are, and they discover that the letter opener Abigail stole to saw off the trackers ''also'' has a tracker hidden inside it.]]

** In ''Cry Fox'', [[spoiler:Abigail and Anya's]] reaction when they realize that [[spoiler:they're being kidnapped]].

* ThisPageWillSelfDestruct: In ''Cry Fox'', [[spoiler:Ludmila Yakunina]] is delivered a mobile phone [[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.

* GroinAttack: In ''Cry Fox'', [[spoiler:Abigail]] kicks [[spoiler:Alaric Robinette]] in the groin after being saved from his attempt at human hunting. [[spoiler:Nightingale]] sharply reminds her that they don't treat their prisoners like that.

* 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.

* RemovedFromThePicture: In ''Night Witch'', [[spoiler:Lesley May has a photo of herself and Peter from their graduation from the police academy with her own face scribbled out, implied to be because of some internal conflict over her decisions and trauma over what happened to her face.]]

** ''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.]]

* 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.]]

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: ''Cry Fox'' involves a sadistic human-hunting game. [[spoiler:The hunters are not above using children as the targets.]]

* {{Revenge}}: In ''Black Mould'', [[spoiler:the mould was unleashed by a woman who wanted revenge on the slumlord whose filthy properties killed her husband.]]