Rivers of London series timeline
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sixthlightThis is my long-running series timeline for RoL, updated through Lies Sleeping. Further updates will also be on DW; I don't trust Tumblr's longevity at this stage. For everything before the series starts, I direct you to the fantastic timeline by the-high-meggas. This is only for events after Peter meets a ghost.
Updated 12 April 2015 to include details about the various short stories.
Updated 20 August 2015 with WOG on when the comics take place.
Updated 4 July 2016 with a little more info on the comics to date.
Updated 2 August 2016 with the official series chronology (which does not include the short stories associated with the special editions because they’re not legally/officially available outside those editions.)
Updated 29 November 2016 with details for The Hanging Tree and future comics from the official chronology.
Updated 19 March 2017 to add links to comics summaries and some more details about future works.
Updated 21 August 2017 with some more future works & dates for Detective Stories and The Furthest Station.
Updated 6 Feb 2019 with more future works and details around TFS and Lies Sleeping. No spoilers for Lies Sleeping at this stage.
Updated 23 Jul 2019 with details about Lies Sleeping and a link to that timeline, as well as details about The October Man and more specific dates for novellas.
For detailed timelines of the individual books, see:
- Rivers of London
- Moon over Soho
- Whispers Under Ground
- Broken Homes
- Foxglove Summer
- The Hanging Tree
- The Furthest Station: IN PROGRESS
- Lies Sleeping
January 2012: Rivers of London begins. Peter meets a ghost in Covent Garden and is recruited by Nightingale to join the Folly. The Coopertown murders occur.
February 2012: Peter meets Mama Thames and her daughters, and kills vampires in Purley.
March 2012: Peter creates his first werelight and meets Father Thames and his sons. The cycle courier and Hare Krishna murders occur.
April 2012: Peter practises magic and does paperwork. All month.
May 2012: Peter realises Punch is behind the murders; Nightingale is shot; the Covent Garden riot occurs; Peter traps Punch and saves Lesley.
June 2012: Peter delivers Beverley to Father Thames and takes Ash back to London. Lesley and Nightingale are still in hospital. Rivers of London ends.
The Faceless Man reappears in Soho, according to Alexander Smith.
July/August 2012: At some point, Nightingale is released from hospital and so is Lesley; Nightingale returns to the Folly but is largely confined to a wheelchair, Lesley goes to her parents in Brightlingsea. Peter’s father quits cigarettes and heroin (h/t sidewaystime).
27 July 2012: Home Crowd Advantage takes place, per logic and word of God. But Home Crowd Advantage has to take place after Whispers Under Ground, because Peter has a taser and mentions Oxford Circus, I hear you say! Just…try not to think too hard about this one. The author had a Better Idea.
September 2012: Mid-month, Moon over Soho begins. Peter drives out to see Lesley and comes back to news of a mysterious jazz death. Over the next ten days he meets Simone, kills the Pale Lady, runs into the Faceless Man, and Simone commits suicide.
October 2012: Mid-to-late in the month, he visits Lesley again and she can create a werelight. Moon over Soho ends.
November 2012: Lesley unofficially joins the Folly. She is still on medical leave. Detective Stories issue #3 takes place.
Late December 2012: Whispers Under Ground takes places over Christmas week (Dec 18th-27th.)
A note on the 2012 date: Yes, Christmas was on a Sunday in 2011, not 2012. Please also try not to think too hard about this. Otherwise we have to cancel 2012 entirely or assume nothing happened for the entire year except Home Crowd Advantage, and that’s even more confusing.
January 2013: Peter’s cousin installs a master switch for the tech cave; Peter learns a couple of new formae and spells (aqua, the telescope spell.) Detective Stories issue #2 takes place (Jan 20th-21st).
February 2013: Broken Homes begins with Robert Weil’s arrest, mid-to-late in February. Lesley has another operation; Peter does training at Hendon.
March 2013: Patrick Mulkern (or George Trenchard, depending on the edition of the book) tries to fence a book and is murdered; the Spring Court of the Thames takes place.
April 2013: Peter and Lesley try to go to the goblin market and run into Varvara; they decide to stake out Skygarden; mid-month, Varvara is arrested by Nightingale in Essex, Peter confronts the Faceless Man, Skygarden falls, and Lesley tasers Peter.
Late in the month, Peter and Abigail visit Mr Nolfi the rogue magician; Peter talks to Zach about Lesley. Broken Homes ends.
May/June/July 2013: Peter and Nightingale spend a lot of time being interviewed by the DPS; Peter also spends a lot of time practicing magic, in the gym, and not sleeping. Varvara is a guest in the Folly.
June 2013: The first comic series, Body Work happens over 2-3 days. Peter and Sahra Guleed chase down a series of haunted cars. Summary for non-comics readers.
Summer 2013: The untitled Abigail novella involving missing children and someone at the Home Office takes place. If we ignore all reason and logic, as well as the incontrovertible fact that the London Olympics happened in 2012, Home Crowd Advantage occurs on July 27. Otherwise…it doesn’t happen at all. Or it happens before MoS and I cry quietly into a pillow. Or the Peter we see in HCA has in fact accidentally time-travelled backwards from after BH to 2012. Take your pick. Edited to reflect the 2013 date for BW/FS/NW.
August 2013: Peter is sent to Herefordshire to investigate two missing children and Foxglove Summer occurs, from the 15th-27th. On the 27th/28th, as Peter and Beverley return to London, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Granny (post-FS Waterstones special edition short story) occurs.
September 2013: The second comic series, Night Witch/Ночные Колдуньи occurs: a rich Russian couple whose daughter has been kidnapped attempt to break Varvara out of prison to help find her. Varvara objects. Summary for non-comics readers.
King of the Rats (short story written for Cityread 2015, video here, transcript here, also included in Waterstones special editions of The Hanging Tree) has Jaget Kumar as a character so is post-WUG at least (i.e. February 2013- sometime) and is currently set between Night Witch and Black Mould unless the author changes his mind.
Late 2013(???): Black Mould, the third comic series: Peter and Guleed investigate a magical and malevolent infestation of black mould. It’s…not the dead of winter, but that’s all that’s really obvious from the comic timing-wise. Summary for non-comics readers here.
December 2013: Favourite Uncle, the post-Lies Sleeping short story, takes place. Abigail meets a new kind of genius loci; you can read it here.
Sometime over late 2013-the first half of 2014:
- Peter organises an open day for the demi-monde and former Folly wizards at Casterbrook; his father’s band plays and it’s very successful. (probably spring/summer 2014)
- Postmartin, Walid, Peter, and Nightingale meet at the Folly to discuss expansion and Dr Jennifer Vaughan is hired as the Folly’s full-time pathologist. (Sometime in 2014)
- Beverley begins reading Environmental Science at Queen Mary’s College. (likely September 2013, around the time of Night Witch)
- Peter is given a permanent desk at Belgravia nick.
- Peter and Nightingale enchant two magic-proof cells at Belgravia for holding practitioners.
Sometime in July/August 2014: The Furthest Station (novella) occurs. Abigail, on her summer holiday, helps Peter, Nightingale, and Jaget Kumar find a kidnapped social worker. Also, talking foxes are dying mysteriously, and Peter has to call in Beverley to help the confused adoptive parents of a child River.
October 2014: The Hanging Tree takes place; Peter is called in by Lady Ty to keep her daughter Olivia’s name out of the accidental death of Olivia’s friend Christina Chorley, and ends up uncovering a lot more than that. No precise dates are given but it’s probably in the first half of the month (around the 5th-16th for the main action.)
Sometime after The Hanging Tree: A Book of Cunning Device takes place; Peter meets Elsie Winstanley and spends a night in the British Library.
Late 2014 - mid 2015: Cry Fox and Water Weed, both comic series, take place. In Cry Fox, Abigail and Sahra are kidnapped by deranged fox hunters, orchestrated by Reynard. In Water Weed, Beverley's sisters Olympia and Chelsea acquire some magical cannabis as divine tribute and inadvertently put Peter on the trail of a stab-happy drug dealer.
Northern Winter 2014-2015: The untitled Kimberley Reynolds novella will take place, based on references in Lies Sleeping.
May/June 2015: Detective Stories issue #1 (and the frame story) takes place; Peter becomes a Detective Constable.
June-August 2015: Lies Sleeping takes place; Peter and Team Folly hunt down Lesley and Chorley, who are trying to kill Punch. Lesley kills Chorley, rejecting Peter's offer to come back to the light become a witness, and Peter is suspended for an unknown length of time. Beverley tells Peter she's pregnant.
October 2015: The October Man takes place. In Germany, Tobi Winter and Vanessa Sommer investigate a series of magical deaths linked to the local River Kyll.
Future works:
Post-Lies Sleeping: Another comic series, The Fey and the Furious, will take place, probably in late 2015.
Approximately early 2016: Book 8, False Value, will occur around this time based on BA's comments on Twitter about Beverley's pregnancy.
Sometime after that: Book 9 will take place.
Other short stories/comics:
Action at a Distance: Comic run following Nightingale and colleagues on the trail of a serial killer in the 1950s, with a frame story of Peter reading the case records.
An untitled Nightingale novella set in the 1920s has been commissioned but not yet written.
The Cockpit (short story included in a special edition of Broken Homes, summary here) includes both Peter and Lesley so must take place sometime between the end of MoS and the end of BH (October 2012 - April 2013.)
The Domestic (short story included in a special edition of Whispers Under Ground) but nobody on the Internet seems to know much about it is not-very-legally available courtesy of the one person in the tiny fandom who owns that special edition, @thebaconsandwichofregret. It only features Peter and Toby so could theoretically happen at any point, but is probably best thought of as happening somewhere in between RoL and MoS, in mid-2012.
The short stories may eventually be collected with the to-be-published novella.
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