The matchless if cantankerous detective duo of Inspectors Bryant and May investigate murky and murderous goings on beneath London's streets.
Christopher Fowler was the multiple award-winning author of almost fifty novels and short story collections, including the celebrated Bryant & May mysteries. His other novels include Roofworld, Spanky, The Sand Men and Hot Water. He has also written two acclaimed memoirs, Paperboy (winner of the Green Carnation Prize) and Film Freak, plus The Book of Forgotten Authors and Peculiar London, Bryant and May's singular and eccentric guide to the city. In 2015 Chris won the CWA's coveted 'Dagger in the Library' for his body of work. He lived in London and Barcelona. Diagnosed with cancer just as the UK went into lockdown in 2020, Chris died on 2nd March 2023.
'Atmospheric, hugely beguiling and as filled with tricks and
sleights of hand as a magician's sleeve...this is English gothic at
its eccentric best; a combination of Ealing comedy and grand opera:
witty, charismatic, occasionally touching and with a genuine power
to thrill'
*JOANNE HARRIS*
'An evocatively reverential tribute to the genre...the clash of
temperaments between Bryant and May makes them great
detectives'
*TIME OUT*
'The striking gothic setting of London under fire proves fruitful
ground for a bizarre dark comedy of an investigation...bawdy,
unpredictable and at times hilarious, with a cast of wonderful
grotesques'
*GUARDIAN*
'A writer of extraordinary imagination'
*Sunday Express*
'Very cleverly plotted...simultaneously scary and alluring'
*Daily Telegraph Books of the Year*
'Wartime London is conjured up with unique skill...Fowler's powers
of description are enviable'
*Independent on Sunday*
'An evocatively reverential tribute to the genre...the clash of
temperaments between Bryant and May makes them great
detectives'
*Time Out*
'Very fine writing, a lot of atmosphere, and a great deal of
irresistible London arcana'
*Morning Star*
'The second in his new series of long-awaited Bryant and May
mysteries. From the time I first encountered these two characters
in a short story in City Jitters, I've wanted Fowler to do
precisely what he's doing now. That would be long, complex and very
funny detective novels about the exploits of London's PCU - the
Peculiar Crimes Unit'
*The Agony Column*
'Bryant and May are engaging characters and I look forward to their
next outing'
*Sherlock*
'Atmospheric, hugely beguiling and as filled with tricks and
sleights of hand as a magician's sleeve...this is English gothic at
its eccentric best; a combination of Ealing comedy and grand opera:
witty, charismatic, occasionally touching and with a genuine power
to thrill' * JOANNE HARRIS *
'An evocatively reverential tribute to the genre...the clash of
temperaments between Bryant and May makes them great detectives' *
TIME OUT *
'The striking gothic setting of London under fire proves fruitful
ground for a bizarre dark comedy of an investigation...bawdy,
unpredictable and at times hilarious, with a cast of wonderful
grotesques' -- Maxim Jakubowski * GUARDIAN *
'A writer of extraordinary imagination' -- Sunday Express
'Very cleverly plotted...simultaneously scary and alluring'
-- Daily Telegraph Books of the Year |
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