Peculiar Crimes Unit #6
Bantam
November 2008
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Featuring: Arthur Bryant; John May
336 pages ISBN: 0553805029 EAN: 9780553805024 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Itβs a case tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of Englandβs most well-known pubsβincluding one torn down eighty years ago. Whatβs more, Arthur Bryant happened to see one of the victims only moments before her death at the pub that doesnβt 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 traditionsβthe pub and the Peculiar Crimes Unit.
Thatβs 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 Unitβs two living legends have enough life left to stop a murderous conspiracyβ¦and a deadly cupid targeting one of their own.
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