Rivers of London (the book) timeline

First of my timelines for events in the Rivers of London series, originally posted to Tumblr.

The longest book, in terms of book time covered! Also the most generic in terms of dates, as there’s lots of long stretches of time when nothing much happens.

( The timeline )

Notes:
A helpful anon pointed out I’d mixed up some of the timing in the middle (around the vampire/magistrates’ court scenes) and there were bigger gaps in between events - fixed in this version. 

This is a tricky one because there’s lots of large time gaps and, unlike all the other books, Peter’s narration jumps around in time a lot more. The dates and days are all approximate, based on a roughly mid-January date for the start of the book (by eighteen days in it’s February, so the murder can’t take place any earlier than January 14th, and it’s still less than six months later by June 21st.) He was cutting it really close with Mama Thames’ deadline if he still hadn’t come up with a solution by the final confrontation with Punch, too - it’s already late May.

Peter learns a lot of spells in quite quick succession - lux, iactus, impello, the fireball variant - and then presumably has to stop for a while as Nightingale is in hospital for at least a month. Notably, he actually only has about two and a bit months of magic instruction when he’s not just learning lux - that’s quicker than I’d thought before working it out.

Also, it's his idea to learn the fireball spell, not Nightingale’s, although presumably Nightingale finds it worthwhile to teach him. I’d forgotten that, too!