Book description
The unthinkable has happened at London's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the
bitter depths of winter, a member of the team has been murdered, and
everyone who works there is a suspect. With the exception of Arthur
Bryant and John May that is, for the eccentric detectives who run
London's strangest crime division are stranded on a desolate snowbound
road somewhere in the West Country on their way to a spiritualists'
convention. As the snows worsen, Bryant & May attempt to solve the
crime long distance. And their situation is about to get much. much
worse. Unknown to the elderly detectives, an obsessed killer has
travelled from the Riviera to Dartmoor, and is stalking the stranded
vehicles, searching for one particular victim and edging ever closer
with each passing minute...
Two murderers, two incapacitated detectives, just six hours to solve
two crimes and save the unit. Armed only with their wits, woolly
coats, a mobile phone with a fading battery and some dubious veal and
ham pies, Bryant & May are bracing themselves for a strange and
very dangerous day...
Christopher Fowler
is the acclaimed author of twelve novels, including
Roofworld
,
Spanky, Soho Black
and five Bryant & May mysteries:
Full Dark House -
which won the 2004 BFS August Derleth Award for Best Novel;
The Water
Room
(nominated for the CWA People's Choice Dagger Award
and
the 2005 August Derleth Award),
Seventy-Seven Clocks, Ten-Second Staircase
and
White Corridor.
He lives in King's Cross, London.
Visit www. christopherfowler. co. uk
