Bryant and May On The Loose - 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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Praise for Christopher Fowler's Bryant & May mysteries:

'Quirky, touching, profound and utterly original.'

Peter James

'Slow burning, adroitly plotted, with a distinct atmosphere . . . goes against the grain of most detective fiction and is the better for it.'

Daily Telegraph

'One of the quirkiest and most ingenious pleasures to be found in the genre: atmospheric, sardonically funny and craftily suspenseful.'

amazon.co.uk

'Marvellous . . . these are really, really great reads.'

BBC Radio 4's 'Front Row'

'Invests the traditions of the Golden Age of detective fiction with a tongue-in-cheek post-modernism.'

Evening Standard

'Page-turning . . . bear all the hallmarks of the classic British mystery.'

Guardian

'An imaginative fun house . . . life always seems livelier whenever Arthur Bryant and John May are on the case.'

New York Times Book Review

'Fowler, like his crime-solvers, is dead-pan, sly and always unexpectedly inventive.'

Entertainment Weekly

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Londoners are losing their heads...

Tracking down a murderer in King's Cross, one of the busiest meeting points in Britain, would be a nightmare for any police force. The discovery of a decapitated body in a shop freezer points to this being a case for the Peculiar Crimes Unit. However, the team has been disbanded and retirement seems the only option left for its elderly detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May. But then a second corpse is found. And again, it doesn't have a head.

Something decidedly strange is upsetting the area's property developers too. The mystical image of a forgotten legend - seemingly half-man, half-beast, covered in deer skin and sporting antlers made of knives - has begun stalking construction sites at night.

With limited resources and very little time, but freed from the system and on the loose, the nation's favourite octogenarian detectives and the PCU are back in business, searching for body parts and behaving disgracefully as they go in search of London's pagan secrets.

At the heart of the investigation lies the city's oldest mystery - who really owns London and its landscapes? As they close in on the truth, Bryant and May find they have made a very dangerous enemy indeed...