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The water room

Arthur Bryant and John May of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit investigate when an elderly woman is found dead inside her own home with her lungs filled with river water, and they encounter a killer with a unique motive for murder.

Main Author: Fowler, Christopher
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Bantam, 2008.
Series: Bryant & May mysteries ;
Subjects:
Police > England > London > Fiction.
Antiquities > Collection and preservation > Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Summary: Arthur Bryant and John May of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit investigate when an elderly woman is found dead inside her own home with her lungs filled with river water, and they encounter a killer with a unique motive for murder.
Item Description: "A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery"--cover.
Physical Description: 356 p.
ISBN: 9780553385557
0553385550
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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