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Author: Christopher Fowler
ISBN : B00DK89N4I
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London’s craftiest and boldest detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are back in this deviously twisting mystery of black magic, madness, and secrets hidden in plain sight. When a young woman is found dead in the pews of St. Bride’s Church—alone and showing no apparent signs of trauma—Arthur Bryant assumes this case will go to the Peculiar Crimes Unit, an eccentric team tasked with solving London’s most puzzling murders. Yet the city police take over the investigation, and the PCU is given an even more baffling and bewitching assignment.
Called into headquarters by Oskar Kasavian, the head of Home Office security, Bryant and May are shocked to hear that their longtime adversary now desperately needs their help. Oskar’s wife, Sabira, has been acting strangely for weeks—succumbing to violent mood swings, claiming an evil presence is bringing her harm—and Oskar wants the PCU to find out why. And if there’s any duo that can deduce the method behind her madness, it’s the indomitable Bryant and May.
When a second bizarre death reveals a surprising link between the two women’s cases, Bryant and May set off on a trail of clues from the notorious Bedlam hospital to historic Bletchley Park. And as they are drawn into a world of encrypted codes and symbols, concealed rooms and high-society clubs, they must work quickly to catch a killer who lurks even closer than they think.
Witty, suspenseful, and ingeniously plotted,
The Invisible Code is Christopher Fowler at the very top of his form.
Praise for the ingenious novels featuring the Peculiar Crimes Unit “A brilliant series of impossible crime novels.”
—The Denver Post “Life always seems livelier whenever Arthur Bryant and John May are on a case.”
—The New York Times Book Review “Witty, charming, intelligent, wonderfully atmospheric and enthusiastically plotted.”
—The Times (UK) “Fowler, like his crime-solvers, is deadpan, sly, and always unexpectedly inventive.”
—entertainment Weekly “Fowler has few peers when it comes to constructing ingenious . . . plots.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “May and Bryant make a stellar team.”
—The Wall Street Journal “One of the most delightful series around.”
—Library Journal “Christopher Fowler is something of a British national treasure. . . . He has brought his particular skills to bear on what has become a crime fiction series quite unlike anything else.”
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- File Size: 1742 KB
- Print Length: 368 pages
- Publisher: Bantam (December 17, 2013)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DK89N4I
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I am so glad author Christopher Fowler was willing to take a chance to write mystery novels with a twist. And the twist definitely works for me. The two lead characters, Arthur Bryant and John May, by modern standards should be retired and growing vegetable marrows on an allotment somewhere. Thank goodness Fowler has kept these two older police detectives active and investigating serious crimes. It would be so easy for Bryant and May to fall into the category of caricatures of detectives, but that is never the case. Even though Bryant makes frequent references to his age, that age in no way keeps him from being essential to the investigations in all of these novels. Here, in the tenth book in the series, Bryant even plays the dominant role in working out the solution to the murders.
The Peculiar Crimes Unit doesn't have any big case on it's books at the moment so when Arthur Bryant hears about an unusual death in St. Bride's Church, for which his pathologist friend is having trouble finding a cause of death, he decides to do some investigating on his own. This is soon sidelined when Oskar Kasavian, the official from the Home Office department in charge of the PCU, asks for the help of the unit in investigating what is happening to his wife, Sabira. Kasavian is about to head up the UK's initiative in the EU which will change forever the way terrorism threats are dealt with within the UK and he needs help finding out why his wife is behaving more and more irrationally. Is Sabira really just a young, bored wife of an important government official or is there something tangible causing her paranoia and talk of witches?
This story features Arthur Bryant more than other members of the Unit, but everyone is important to the solving of the case.