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Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
"When a young woman is found dead in the pews of St. Bride's Church--alone and showing no apparent signs of trauma--Arthur Bryant assumes this case will go to the Peculiar Crimes Unit, an eccentric team tasked with solving London's most puzzling murders. Yet the city police take over the investigation, and the PCU is given an even more baffling and bewitching assignment. Called into headquarters by Oskar Kasavian, the head of Home Office security,...
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.
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 11
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
Bryant and May mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Heading for the International Spiritualists' Convention, John May and Arthur Bryant find themselves stranded along with dozens of other motorists by a massive blizzard and soon discover that a notorious killer is also stuck along the same remote stretch of highway.
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Detective John May and his partner, Arthur Bryant, find themselves tackling a bizarre serial killer nicknamed "The Highwayman," whose crimes bear a striking similarity to other murders spanning London's history.
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 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
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
Bryant and May mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
When a bomb claims the life of John May's detective partner of more than half a century, May becomes convinced that the key to the killer's identity lies in his first case together with his partner.
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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...
10) The water room
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Arthur Bryant and John May of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit investigate when an elderly woman is found dead inside her own home with her lungs filled with river water, and they encounter a killer with a unique motive for murder.
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 18
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 17
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
Bryant and May mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"No case is too curious for Arthur Bryant and John May, London s most ingenious detectives. But with their beloved city engulfed in turmoil, they ll have to work fast to hold a sinister killer s feet to the fire. In the week before Guy Fawkes Night, London s peaceful streets break out in sudden unrest. Enraged by a scandal involving a corrupt financier accused of insider trading, demonstrators are rioting outside the Findersbury Private Bank, chanting,...
14) Strange tide
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The River Thames is London's most important yet neglected artery. When a young woman is found chained to a post in the tide, no-one can understand how she came to be drowned there. At the Peculiar Crimes Unit, Arthur Bryant and John May find themselves dealing with an impossible crime committed in a very public place. Soon they discover that the river is giving up other victims, but as the investigation extends from the coast of Libya to the nightclubs...
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...
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