Christopher Fowler
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
British sensation author Christopher Fowler pens bestselling crime novels that draw readers into the investigations of Arthur Bryant and John May of Scotland Yard's Peculiar Crimes Unit. Here, an aging attorney becomes the first victim in a series of poisonings that may be the work of a family of cultists.
2) Strange tide
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Fowler's quirky, beloved detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, return in another dazzling investigtion. In another impossible case for the Peculiar Crimes Unit, a woman is found drowned in the Thames after being tied to a pillar at low water--and only her footprints lead to the spot where she was killed..."--
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Christopher Fowler has won a widespread following for his senior-citizen detectives Arthur Bryant and John May. Here a woman is found drowned in her basement-with nary a drop of water to explain the crime. "Traditional mystery buffs with a taste for the offbeat will relish British author Fowler's wonderful ... contemporary whodunit." -Publishers Weekly, starred review
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a prominent politician is crushed by a fruit van making a delivery, the singular team of Arthur Bryant and John May overcome insurmountable odds to reunite the PCU and solve the case in the brainy new mystery from acclaimed author Christopher Fowler. On a spring morning in London's Strand, the Speaker of the House of Commons is accidentally killed by a van unloading oranges and lemons for the annual St. Clement Danes festival. It's an absurd...
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May are back on the case in this whip-smart and wildly twisting mystery, in which a killer in London's parks is proving to be a most elusive quarry. Helen Forester's day starts like any other: Around seven in the morning, she takes her West Highland terrier for a walk in her street's private garden. But by 7:20 she is dead, strangled yet peacefully laid out on the path, her dog nowhere to be found. The only other...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Two of London's sharpest minds within the Peculiar Crimes Unit are faced with one of the most bizarre cases of their careers as an ill-timed death, a powerful curse, a crazy dowager, and a dead photographer lead them into a world of madness, codes, and the secret of London's strangest relic.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A teenager sees a dead man rise from his grave--and moments later is killed in a sudden hit-and-run accident. Seven ravens housed in the impenetrable fortress that is the Tower of London vanish without a trace--and legend has it that when the ravens leave, the city will fall. Bryant and May must figure out how these two inexplicable, seemingly unrelated mysteries fit together as they begin an investigation that finds them confronting a group of latter-day...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Returning to the Victoria Cross pub hours after witnessing the murder of a woman, Detective Arthur Bryant is stunned to discover that the pub itself has vanished and the street around it has mysteriously aged, and calls in the Peculiar Crimes Unit to track down a killer who is stalking London's oldest watering holes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The brilliant duo of Arthur Bryant and John May uncover a nefarious plot behind the seemingly innocuous death of an old lady--and when the case leads them to the London Bridge, it all comes down on the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Ninety-one-year-old Alice Hoffman died alone in her top-floor flat. Social services say she slipped through the cracks in a failing system. But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their suspicions....
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the trail of an enigma: a young man called Mr Fox. But his identity is false, his links to society are invisible and his home yields no clues. All they know is that somehow he escaped from a locked room and murdered one of their best and brightest. Now the detectives are being lured down into the darkest recesses of the London Underground where their quarry, expertly disguised, has struck...
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The indomitable duo of Arthur Bryant and John May, along with the rest of their quirky team, must solve a confounding case with dark ties to the British theater and a killer who may mean curtains for all involved.
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1969. With the Swinging Sixties under way, Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May find themselves caught in the middle of a good, old-fashioned manor house murder mystery. The critics are mad for Christopher Fowler, his irascible creations Bryant and May, and the Peculiar author's gift for writing classic mysteries with delightfully uncommon twists. Entertainment Weekly calls Fowler "deadpan, sly, and always unexpectedly inventive," while...
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 18.5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It's getting late. I want to share my knowledge of London with you, if I can remember any of it. So says Mr. Arthur Bryant. He and John May are the nation's oldest serving detectives. Who better to reveal its secrets? Why does this rainy, cold, gray city capture so many imaginations? Could its very unreliability hold the key to its longevity? The detectives are joined by their boss, Raymond Land, and some of their most disreputable friends, each...
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When a man is found hanging upside down inside a willow tree on Hampstead Heath, surrounded by a baffling assortment of occult objects, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is called in to investigate. Was this a botched Satanic ritual pulled off by bored teenagers, a gang initiation, or the work of a mastermind with grander intentions? Bryant and May set off for answers and soon discover that London is a city steeped in blood and magic. When another body is...
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Drawn together by a series of bizarre murders involving beheaded victims, the members of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit search for clues beneath the medieval buildings of St. Pancras Church, where they unearth a disturbing history of Christian rites and pagan rituals.
16) Nyctophobia
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Callie moves with her new husband, Mateo, to a house in southern Spain that is built so that half of the rooms are in perpetual darkness, and slowly comes to believe that there is a sinister presence in the dark side of the house.