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The artwork shows an early version of the cover when, due to a slip-up, there was a Bryant but no May!
It begins with a life lost on a London street; a middle-aged woman collapses outside a public house called The Victoria Cross. Yet it becomes one of the most disturbing cases the Peculiar Crimes Unit has ever undertaken…
Arthur Bryant passes the woman just before she dies. But when he returns to the scene a few hours later, nothing is how he remembers it. For a start, the busy nineteenth century pub is now a supermarket. The elderly detective’s greatest fear is that he might be losing his mind. After all, he managed to mislay a friend’s funeral urn on the same night.
While Bryant faces some home truths about perception and memory, his partner John May investigates a similar death occurring in a busy London pub. A killer is taking lives in the city’s safest and most convivial places, but how is he doing it, and why?
The detective’s search involves arcane mysteries, secret societies, line-dancing, speed dating, hidden insanity, and the solution of London’s most extraordinary forgotten conundrum. But naming the murderer is only the beginning of their problems, because closing the case means performing the impossible…
Christopher Fowler’s legendary detectives are at the peak of their powers, as their unit enters its darkest hour.
‘Another dizzying tumble down the rabbit hole…there’s always a serious point in Fowler’s drolly mannered mysteries.’ New York Times
‘The great tradition of English eccentricity has many flag-bearers in the mystery field, with Christopher Fowler’s Bryant & May series prominent among the crop. Fowler writes devilishly clever and mordantly funny novels that are sometimes heartbreakingly moving.’ – Val McDermid, The Times