Series: Bryant & May
by Author Christopher Fowler
Ten Second Staircase (2007)
I’m beginning to think the very first book in this series (which I’m sadly reading out of order) was the best. All of the books center on May and Bryant, two close to retiring (in age if not in desire) detectives of London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit, i.e. the weird stuff that no one else wants to do...
White Corridor (2007)
A strange story - but I rather liked it. John May and Arthur Bryant are the head of the Peculiar Crimes Unit. They are a relatively obscure unit in London, dealing with the obscure crimes very few know about. They are both aging and are afraid the unit will be closed when they are gone. Their...
The Water Room (2006)
When Christopher Fowler announced that he was to write a series of books based around his repeating characters, Detectives Bryant and May of the Metropolitan Police's Peculiar Crimes Unit, I was initially quite excited. A couple of books later, however, I was less enthusiastic. "Full Dark House",...
Full Dark House (2005)
It takes a lot of skill, if not a lot of nerve, for an author to set up a book seemingly about the exploits of a crime detective duo and apparently kill one of them off on the first page.But that’s what happens here. In present day London, an incendiary device is set off in the office of London M...
Seventy-Seven Clocks (2005)
This is an interesting story which chronicles the first case of the Peculiar Crimes Unit. It takes place in 1973. Arthur Bryant and John May had been partners some time ago and they are now reunited as the PCU is given it's first quarters away from the Metropolitan Police as well as a small grou...