London urban fantasy

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I like Ben Aaronovich rivers of London, Kate Griffin Midnight mayor, Sarah Painter Crow family. Any other suggestions?

Discovery of witches has one book based in Elizabethan London. It’s probably the weakest of the three books but the series is great!

Ah yes. Good suggestion. I liked the Oxford one, but less keen on historical stuff sk havent read it, but yes, that's the right feel.

Benedict Jacks' Alex Verus series - Fated is the first book.

Samantha Shannon's Bone Season books, set in London, Oxford and Paris with detours to Manchester. . .very urban and rich in city history.

Thank you - yes these both sound good and I haven't read either

Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher - it's for kids but I enjoyed it

Mike Carey’s Felix Castor series is very good.

Oooo I love London urban fantasy!

As well as the above:

The Shadow Police series by Paul Cornell is good. Unfortunately it just sort of stops after the fourth book, perhaps because it was too close thematically to Rivers of London which was written about the same time, although it is a much darker series. Still, the worldbuilding and plots for the books that were written make it worthwhile even if, like me, you will always wonder what happens next.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/London-Falling-Shadow-Police-Cornell/dp/0330528092

The Skyscraper Throne series by Tom Pollock - more fantastical than RoL, in the "London, and then another London" style. I don't remember the plot and characters than well but some of the original ideas and imagery have stuck with me for years, very different.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Citys-Son-hidden-marvels-Skyscraper/dp/1780870094

If you ever feel like trying Glasgow urban fantasy (with portal jaunts to many other places, some on this plane of existence and some not) Kevin Hearne's Ink and Sigil series is great fun, and has the lightness and warmth of RoL

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ink-Sigil-world-Druid-Chronicles/dp/0356515230

Oh, and obviously Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere is the daddy of all these, though he may not be an author you want to read now. It was originally a TV show which is very dated now, but the book holds up.

www.amazon.co.uk/Neverwhere-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0755322800

I love a London-set urban fantasy. I was going to suggest Neverwhere, which still holds up as a classic in this genre. Also The Lefthanded Booksellers of London (though I think it veers towards the YA), and The Invisible Library - I’ve not read the whole series but the first book is set in London. Another one is Angelmaker, a strange mix of steampunk, spy/gangster thriller, with occasional elements of urban fantasy.

It’s set in Manchester rather than London but I really enjoyed C.K. McDonnell’s Stranger Times series.

I'm jumping on because I read a London UF and at the end the fairy queen made a phone call and asked someone to release the vorroa (sick) mite.
Can't find the book in my Kindle Library
Not London but The Essex Witch Museum books are fun.

Anno Dracula https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anno-Dracula-Kim-Newman/dp/0857680838 - horror steampunk fantasy set in an alternative Victorian London where Dracula achieves his goal of breaking into British society and marries Queen Victoria. (He is definitely not a nice sparkly vampire).

The whole series is good but the first one is the only really London-y one.

As a Londoner (incomer not born but lived here over twenty years) I love how London urban fantasy adds a whole other world to the places and inhabitants I see in real life. Stoneheart really made me notice statues and there's a notable one I definitely look askance at now!

Un Lun Dun by China Mieville is good as well, though it’s also a young adult book. It’s London urban fantasy with a bit of witty Alice in Wonderland-type surrealism. And it’s funny. (I adored the “binjas,” which will make no sense to anyone who’s not read the it!)

Late mention for Christopher Fowler’s Bryant & May series and the stand alone Roofworld.

@RomanMum I loved the Lefthanded Booksellers - it’s exactly the kind of fantasy I enjoy. I wanted to like The Rivers of London but couldn’t take to it because of one early incident that fitted thematically but might be upsetting for a mother, if you see what I mean. So, are any of the others you mention more like Lefthanded Booksellers, or Diana Wynne Jones perhaps, and with a lower body count than Rivers of London? Thanks :)

I enjoyed The Parasol Protectorate books by Gail Carriger. I think I only read the first three, but they were quite fun.

The mention of Un Lun Dun reminds me of another of China Mieville's novels, Kraken. It's also London based, with some marvellous creations, including criminal masterminds and religious cults you won't have encountered anywhere else. . .well you would hope not, anyway!

Oh yes, Kraken is great. I really enjoyed Mieville’s humour in his London-set novels.

@pyewatchethave you listened to The Stranger Times podcast? It’s got some excellent short stories.
Seconding most of the above.
if you like city based Urban Fantasy then there’s also The Netherweird Chronicles which are good fun and are set in Liverpool.
Also NK Jemsin The City we Became which is New York but brilliant and very different.
Also whilst not purely London based The Laundry Files by Charles Stross are also excellent and have a similar feel to the other listed by pp

Paul Cornell - London Falling. It’s like the Ben Aaronovitch books but a little darker, I think about it a lot!

Try DCI Judas Iscarot Black Museum series by Martin Davey

I still hold out a small hope he'll finish the series.