White Corridor - Hardcover

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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 was awarded the Crime Writers Association'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.

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As Britain experiences its coldest winter in years, the unthinkable has happened at the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit. With the Home Office poised to close the unit down, a key member of staff has been found dead in a locked autopsy room - and the finger of suspicion points to several colleagues.

What's more, the exasperating, bickering but brilliant elderly detectives who head up this most unorthodox of crime divisions, Arthur Bryant and John May, aren't on hand to take charge. En route to an international convention of psychics, they have been caught in a blizzard of startling ferocity and are now stranded deep in the Devon countryside. Their only option is to attempt to investigate long-distance.

But as the snow thickens and temperatures plummet, things are about to get much, much worse. Among the line of vehicles trapped on this desolate stretch of Dartmoor road prowls an obsessed killer - a deranged murderer who is edging ever closer to one very particular victim.

With no official help at hand and armed only with their wits, woolly coats and a mobile phone with a fading battery, Bryant and May have only a short time in which to solve two very different crimes - and prevent the innocent white snows of winter being turned a bloody red.