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Bryant & May on the loose a Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery

Drawn together by a series of bizarre murders involving beheaded victims, the members of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit search for clues beneath the medieval buildings of St. Pancras Church, where they unearth a disturbing history of Christian rites and pagan rituals.

Main Author: Fowler, Christopher.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Bantam Books, 2009.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Bryant & May mysteries ;
Subjects:
Bryant, Arthur > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
May, John > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Police > England > London > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > England.
Summary: Drawn together by a series of bizarre murders involving beheaded victims, the members of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit search for clues beneath the medieval buildings of St. Pancras Church, where they unearth a disturbing history of Christian rites and pagan rituals.
Physical Description: 337 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780553807196 (acid-free paper)
0553807196 (acid-free paper)
Author Notes: Christopher Fowler was born in Greenwich, London, England in 1953. He died on March 3, 2023. Fowler was the author of the Bryant and May Mystery series, Rune, and Old Devil Moon, which won the Edge Hill Audience Prize in 2008. He also won the British Fantasy Society Award for best novella for Breathe in 2005. He also won The Dagger in the Library Award 2015 for his body of work.

Fowler was diagnosed with cancer in March 2020, which he announced on his blog the following April. He died in London on 3 March 2023, at the age of 69.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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