★★★★☆ Moment 17 – The Lady and the Fox, Bloomsbury 2024, by Ben Aaronovitch
Where too much love of mystery novels may lead
Moment 17 – The Lady and the Fox, Bloomsbury 2024
Ben Aaronovitch
Where too much love of mystery novels may lead
Ben Aaronovitch’s moments are usually not Aristotelian beginning-middle-end stories, but rather vignettes that offer more insight into the history and characters of the Rivers of London novels. I am quite fond of Ben’s Moments. This is a good one. I hope it introduces the coming Rivers of London novel. Since it appeared in an email blast announcing that he has just delivered the first draft (no title mentioned), this seems like a good guess.
This one begins when a Lady (with a capital ‘L,' he emphasizes) shows up in the office of Barnaby Dennis Applebaum, Private Inquiries. The Lady doesn’t speak, but she carries a fox who introduces herself as Polly Anna and the Lady as Foxglove.
Rivers of London readers will find little surprising in this event. We know who Foxglove is, we know she is mute, and we could not be less surprised to learn that she is in communication with talking foxes. You will not be terribly surprised to learn that Foxglove wishes Applebaum to find her lost sisters. {Spoiler1]
You can read it free on the web. That is probably not a permalink, but it’s the best I have.