Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit Series by Christopher Fowler

4.03 · 246 ratings
  • Full Dark House (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #1)
    #1

    Full Dark House (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #1)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2003

    Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler tells the story of both their first and last case--and how along the way the unlikely pair of crime fighters changed the face of detection... more

  • The Water Room (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #2)
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    The Water Room (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #2)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2004

    Originally built to house the workers of Victorian London, Balaklava Street is now an oasis in the heart of Kentish Town and ripe for gentrification. But then the body of an elderly woman is found at Number 5. Her death would appear to have been peaceful but for the fact that her throat is full of river water. It falls to the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit, led by London's longest-serving detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, to search for something resembling a logical solution... more

  • Seventy-Seven Clocks (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #3)
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    Seventy-Seven Clocks (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #3)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2005

    The odd couple of detection — the brilliant but cranky detectives of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit — return in a tense, atmospheric new thriller that keeps you guessing until the final page. This time Bryant and May are up against a series of bizarre murders that defy human understanding — and a killer no human hand may be able to stop.A mysterious stranger in outlandish Edwardian garb defaces a painting in the National Gallery... more

  • Ten Second Staircase (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #4)
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    Ten Second Staircase (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #4)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2006

    It’s a crime tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit: a controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence–it’s business as usual for the Unit’s cantankerous founding partners, Arthur Bryant and John May. But this time they have an eyewitness. According to twelve-year-old Luke Tripp, the killer was a cape-clad highwayman atop a black stallion... more

  • White Corridor (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #5)
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    White Corridor (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #5)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2007

    From using crackpot psychics to cutting-edge forensics, Arthur Bryant and John May are famous for their maddeningly unorthodox approach to solving crimes that the ordinary police cannot. Now Christopher Fowler, “a new master of the classical detective story,”* brings back crime detection’s oddest—and oldest—couple to solve the ultimate locked room mystery... more

  • The Victoria Vanishes (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #6)
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    The Victoria Vanishes (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #6)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2008

    One night, Arthur Bryant witnesses a drunk middle-aged lady coming out of a pub in a London backstreet. The next morning, she is found dead at the exact spot where their paths crossed. Even more disturbing, there's a twist: the pub has vanished and the street itself has changed. Bryant is convinced that he saw them as they looked over a century before, but the elderly detective has already lost the funeral urn of an old friend... more

  • Bryant & May On the Loose (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #7)
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    Bryant & May On the Loose (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #7)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2009

    Long regarded an anachronism and a thorn in the side of its superiors, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is to be disbanded. For octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May, it seems retirement is now the only option... more

  • Off the Rails (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #8)
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    Off the Rails (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #8)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2010

    Christopher Fowler’s Peculiar Crimes Unit novels have been hailed for their originality, suspense, and unforgettable characters. Now Arthur Bryant, John May, and their team of proud eccentrics have been given only one week to hunt down a murderer they’ve already caught once and who is now luring them down into the darkest shadows of the London Underground.The young man they seek is an enigma. His identity is false. His links to society are invisible. A search of his home yields no clues... more

  • The Memory of Blood (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #9)
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    The Memory of Blood (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #9)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2011

    Christopher Fowler’s acclaimed Peculiar Crimes Unit novels crackle with sly wit, lively suspense, and twists as chilling as London’s fog. Now the indomitable duo of Arthur Bryant and John May, along with the rest of their quirky team, return to solve a confounding case with dark ties to the British theater and a killer who may mean curtains for all involved... more

  • The Invisible Code (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #10)
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    The Invisible Code (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #10)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2012

    London's craftiest and boldest detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are back in this deviously twisting mystery of black magic, madness, and secrets hidden in plain sight. 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... more

  • The Bleeding Heart (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #11)
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    The Bleeding Heart (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #11)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2014

    London's wiliest detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are back on the case in this fiendishly clever new mystery . . . and when a cemetery becomes the scene of a crime, neither secrets--nor bodies--stay buried. Romain Curtis sneaks into St. George's Gardens one evening with his date, planning to show her the stars. A centuries-old burial ground, the small, quiet park is the perfect place to be alone... more

  • Bryant & May and the Burning Man (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #12)
    #12

    Bryant & May and the Burning Man (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #12)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2015

    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, marching, and growing violent... more

  • London's Glory (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #12.5 includes 7.5 & 11.5)
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    London's Glory (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #12.5 includes 7.5 & 11.5)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2015

    In every detective’s life there are cases that can’t be discussed, and throughout the Bryant & May novels there have been mentions of some of these such as the Deptford Demon or the Little Italy Whelk Smuggling Scandal... more

  • Hall of Mirrors (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #15)
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    Hall of Mirrors (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #15)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2018

    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.Hard to believe, but even positively ancient sleuths like Bryant and May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit were young once . . . or at least younger... more

  • Bryant & May: England’s Finest (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #16.5)
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    Bryant & May: England’s Finest (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #16.5)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2019

    'Winningly eccentric . . . London, in all its non-homogenous, sprawling splendour, is as much a character as Fowler's sleuthing duo' Barry Forshaw, Financial TimesThe Peculiar Crimes Unit has solved many extraordinary cases over the years, but some were hushed up and hidden away. Until now.Arthur Bryant remembers these lost cases as if they were yesterday... more

  • Oranges and Lemons (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #17)
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    Oranges and Lemons (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #17)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2020

    "The most delightfully, wickedly entertaining duo in crime fiction." The Plain Dealer When a prominent politician is crushed by a fruit van making a delivery, the singular team of Arthur Bryant and John May overcome insurmountable odds to reunite the PCU and solve the case in the brainy new mystery from acclaimed author Christopher Fowler.On a spring morning in London's Strand, the Speaker of the House of Commons is accidentally killed by a van unloading oranges and lemons for the annual St... more

  • London Bridge is Falling Down (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #18)
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    London Bridge is Falling Down (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #18)

    Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2021

    It was the kind of story that barely made the news.When 91-year-old Amelia Hoffman died in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it's considered an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she slipped through the cracks in a failing system.But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their doubts. Mrs Hoffman was once a government security expert, even though no one can quite remember her... more

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