Lies Sleeping
core novel 2018 Rivers of London
Record
| First published | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.24 (34,160 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 406 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781409171058 |
| Internal chronology | 7 |
Synopsis
In the seventh Peter Grant novel, Peter, now an expectant father, is drawn into a major police operation targeting the fugitive Martin Chorley, the Faceless Man, after realizing that Chorley is not simply on the run but is quietly carrying out the final stages of a long-planned scheme rooted deep in London's history. The magical death connected to the city's silver vaults that first draws Peter's attention proves to be only one piece of a much larger design threatening the city. To have any chance of stopping Chorley in time, Peter must work uneasily alongside people he has previously had reason to distrust, including his former friend and colleague Lesley May and the unpredictable supernatural trickster figure Mr Punch, as the true scale of Chorley's ambitions becomes clear.
Where it sits
- Universe: Rivers of London
- Series: Peter Grant core; position 7 of 10 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Notes
- From the series record (Peter Grant): 10 full-length main-sequence novels (2011-2025), ongoing.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Peter Grant: position 7 of 10: previous The Hanging Tree (2016) · next False Value (2020)
- Internal chronology, within Rivers of London: position 8 of 15: previous The Hanging Tree (2016) · next The October Man (2019)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Rivers of London (book series)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_London_(novel_series)
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