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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A bomb rips through present-day London, tragically ending the crime-fighting partnership of Arthur Bryant and John May begun more than a half-century ago during another infamous bombing: the Blitz of World War II. Desperately searching for clues to the saboteurs identity, May finds the notes his old friend kept of their very first case and a past that may have returned with murderous vengeance. It was an investigation that began with the grisly murder...
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 7
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When a murder at a drama company's cast party thrusts them into London's theater underground, Arthur Bryant and John May investigate a neurotic director, a jealous theater owner, a deranged playwright, and a terminally rude critic.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Two of London's sharpest minds within the Peculiar Crimes Unit are faced with one of the most bizarre cases of their careers as an ill-timed death, a powerful curse, a crazy dowager, and a dead photographer lead them into a world of madness, codes, and the secret of London's strangest relic.
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A teenager sees a dead man rise from his grave--and moments later is killed in a sudden hit-and-run accident. Seven ravens housed in the impenetrable fortress that is the Tower of London vanish without a trace--and legend has it that when the ravens leave, the city will fall. Bryant and May must figure out how these two inexplicable, seemingly unrelated mysteries fit together as they begin an investigation that finds them confronting a group of latter-day...
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the week before Guy Fawkes Night, London’s peaceful streets break out in sudden unrest. Enraged by a scandal involving a corrupt financier accused of insider trading, demonstrators are rioting outside the Findersbury Private Bank, chanting, marching, and growing violent. But when someone hurls a Molotov cocktail at the bank’s front door, killing a homeless man on its steps, Bryant, May, and the rest of the Peculiar Crimes Unit team are called...
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May investigate the baffling case of a girl strangled but peacefully laid out in a private, locked garden, the first in a series of similar murders in London's parks.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1969. With the Swinging Sixties under way, Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May find themselves caught in the middle of a good, old-fashioned manor house murder mystery. The critics are mad for Christopher Fowler, his irascible creations Bryant and May, and the Peculiar author's gift for writing classic mysteries with delightfully uncommon twists. Entertainment Weekly calls Fowler "deadpan, sly, and always unexpectedly inventive," while...
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When a man is found hanging upside down inside a willow tree on Hampstead Heath, surrounded by a baffling assortment of occult objects, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is called in to investigate. Was this a botched Satanic ritual pulled off by bored teenagers, a gang initiation, or the work of a mastermind with grander intentions? Bryant and May set off for answers and soon discover that London is a city steeped in blood and magic. When another body is...
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The brilliant duo of Arthur Bryant and John May uncover a nefarious plot behind the seemingly innocuous death of an old lady--and when the case leads them to the London Bridge, it all comes down on the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Ninety-one-year-old Alice Hoffman died alone in her top-floor flat. Social services say she slipped through the cracks in a failing system. But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their suspicions....
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a prominent politician is crushed by a fruit van making a delivery, the singular team of Arthur Bryant and John May overcome insurmountable odds to reunite the PCU and solve the case in the brainy new mystery from acclaimed author Christopher Fowler. On a spring morning in London's Strand, the Speaker of the House of Commons is accidentally killed by a van unloading oranges and lemons for the annual St. Clement Danes festival. It's an absurd...
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