Middle-aged women in England's pubs are dying. And Peculiar
Crimes Unit detective Arthur Bryant even walks by a pub and
sees the latest victim only minutes before she dies.
Unfortunately, the pub that he describes and is convinced
he saw was torn down 80 years ago.
As Arthur deals with his spotty memory and the conviction
that he really did see the Victoria pub that night, the
rest of the Peculiar Crimes Unit team tries to figure out
the killer's pattern, delving into connections between the
murdered women.
These Peculiar Crimes Unit Mysteries very much fit the mold
of character books. While the mystery is enticing -- and I
couldn't stand not knowing how the Victoria vanished --
these books are about the brilliant characters of the unit.
The addition to the unit of another person who wants to see
it disbanded, or at least force the members to follow
standard policing procedures, adds to the tension. Mr.
Fowler has created characters who enchant through the
truthfulness of their faults, bad attitudes and underlying
concern for each other and catching killers.
It’s a case tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit. A
lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at
some of England’s most well-known pubs—including one torn
down eighty years ago. What’s more, Arthur Bryant happened
to see one of the victims only moments before her death at
the pub that doesn’t exist. Indeed, this case is littered
with clues that defy everything the veteran detectives
know about the habits of serial killers, the methodology
of crime, and the odds of making an arrest. Now, with the
public on the verge of panic and their superiors
determined to shut the PCU down for good, Detectives
Bryant and May must rise to the occasion in defense of two
great English traditions—the pub and the Peculiar Crimes
Unit.
That’s easier said than done. A lost funeral
urn, the eighteenth-century mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, the
Knights Templars, the secret history of pubs, and the
discovery of an astounding religious relic may be enough
to convince one of the pair to take back his resignation
letter. But with Bryant consulting a memory specialist and
May encountering a brush with mortality, do the Peculiar
Crimes Unit’s two living legends have enough life left to
stop a murderous conspiracy…and a deadly cupid targeting
one of their own.
Just wanted to say, this is one of my favorite series, when I cam find them!! Excellent story telling, dialogue is quirky, and the subtle learning I get, very painless!! (Anne Harris 10:13am September 6, 2009)
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