Author:Christopher Fowler
A controversial artist is found dead in her own art installation inside a riverside gallery with locked doors and windows - the only witness is a small boy who insists the murderer was a masked man on a horse. A television presenter is struck by lightning while indoors... Two seemingly impossible crimes that only Arthur Bryant and John May of the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit might be able to solve. But Bryant has lost his nerve following a disastrous public appearance, and May is fighting to keep the unit from closure. Worse still, the case of the Leicester Square Vampire, an unsolved mystery from the past that changed both their lives, has returned to haunt them.
With a sinister modern-day highwayman bringing terror to the London streets in a series of crimes each more puzzling than the last, the elderly detectives track their suspect to an exclusive private school and a deprived housing estate. But just when they need all the help they can get to uncover a new breed of criminal, the highwayman is hailed a national hero, and the public turns against them...
Bryant & May are back on the case in an adventure that explores the dark side of celebrity, the conflicts of youth, age and class, and the peculiar myths of old London.
Genuinely witty and original...madly entertaining. Fowler is in exuberant form here...the suspense is thrilling
—— NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWPlaces Fowler in the first rank of contemporary mystery writers
—— PUBLISHERS WEEKLYRuth Rendell's books are not only whodunits but whydunits, uncovering the motive roots of murder
—— Mail on SundayRuth Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime writing. She displays her peerless skill in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the potent murky impulses of desire and greed, obsession and fear
—— Sunday TimesRuth Rendell is not only the finest crime novelist there is, but one of the finest novelists writing in the English language
—— ScotsmanThe mistress of mystery
—— Daily MirrorGoddard is a master of the sly double and triple cross
—— Seattle TimesAn impressive first novel
—— GuardianArresting first novel by Adam Ross, an author of prodigious talent'...This is a brilliant, powerful, memorable novel
—— ScotsmanRoss' debut novel combines thriller and satire as he explores loneliness and marital difficulties in contemporary America
—— Paul Dunn , The TimesA sharp and satirical thriller...this well-crafted debut novel is gripping from the start
—— Big Issue NorthA riveting first novel... its greatest delight is the sheer brilliance of the writing, polished like marble so it moves without friction but wholly vivid and alive
—— WordMr. Peanut is as ingenious as it is riveting
—— Richard RussoMr. Peanut crackles with life. Ross's long set pieces... reveal his talent for conjuring characters and imagining scenes that, like good short stories, could stand nobly by themselves
—— Harper’s MagazineAdam Ross has crafted a diabolically intricate novel, one that presents all the pleasures and challenges of a well-wrought Sudoku puzzle. There's a whiff of alchemy to the book; you can't quite believe that its many pieces fit together so snugly. Yet they do. Once you've finished, you run your eye back and forth and up and down, and every way you look it adds up. Mr. Peanut is smart, funny,
gripping and - in its ultimate unravelling - sneakily sad
Superbly suspenseful storytelling, weaves missing children, romantic trauma and professional misconduct into a riveting read
—— Sainsbury's magazineConsider yourself in the hands of a most assured master - with a canny sense of humour
—— Time Out
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