Author:Christopher Fowler
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, the pub has vanished. Bryant is convinced that he saw them as they were over a century before, but the elderly detective has already lost the funeral urn of an old friend. Could he be losing his mind as well?
Then it becomes clear that a number of women have met their ends in London pubs. It seems a silent, secret killer is at work, striking in full view...and yet nobody has a clue how, or why - or where he'll attack next. The likeliest suspect seems to be a mental patient with a reason for killing. But knowing who the killer is and catching him are two very different propositions.
As their new team at the Peculiar Crimes Unit goes in search of a madman, the octogenarian detectives ready themselves for the pub crawl of a lifetime, and come face to face with their own mortality...
Fowler's latest bears all the hallmarks of the classic British mystery - think Edmund Crispin's 1946 novel The Moving Toyshop, but much funnier and more distinctive, with plenty of mordant humour, fascinating trivia about London past and present, and the basis for an epic pub crawl of your own. What more could you want?
—— GuardianThe most endearing pair of old farts in crime fiction
—— Laura WilsonWatch out Mma Ramotswe, there's a new number one lady detective on the scene - the glorious Sarah Tanner - in a book that's as thick with Victorian atmosphere as a London Particular
—— Gilda O'NeillOne of the best-written detective series in the genre's history . . . At any time we can return to Kingsmarkham to explore the darker side of humanity with Wexford as our reassuring and humane guide
—— Washington PostRuth Rendell is marvellous at psychological tension... She knits all the threads together with a casual flourish that shows veteran expertise
—— Sunday TimesOne of the best-written detective series in the genre's history... At any time we can return to Kingsmarkham to explore the darker side of humanity with Wexford as our reassuring and humane guide
—— Washington PostA brooding study of how one thoughtless action can have catastrophic consequences
—— Metro ScotlandFossum never forgets that her primary duty is to entertain, and she keeps her cut-to-the-bone mystery moving briskly
—— Barry Forshaw , Sunday TribuneNorwegian writer Karin Fossum has been turning out a steady and impressive body of work since long before Steig Larsson first put pen to paper...This is a first-rate psychological thriller, one of Fossum's best books to date.
—— The ReviewA complex novel of mystery and suspense narrated by three fascinating characters...I thoroughly recommend this title
—— Landers Bookshop , Independent on SundayWell worth the ride
—— Sunday TelegraphPears is in a class of his own; no one else could possibly succeed in making the world of big finance so hugely entertaining.
—— www.thetruthaboutbooks.comthis thoughtful, thoroughly satisfying novel... clever storytelling to reach imaginative heights
—— Waterstone's Books Quarterly
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