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Also by Christopher Fowler:

Bryant & May: Peculiar London, December 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
London's Glory, April 2016
e-Book
Bryant & May and the Burning Man, December 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Nyctophobia, October 2014
Paperback
The Invisible Code, December 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Bryant & May on the Loose, December 2009
Hardcover
The Victoria Vanishes, November 2008
Hardcover
White Corridor, May 2007
Hardcover
Ten Second Staircase, June 2006
Hardcover
Seventy-Seven Clocks, November 2005
Paperback

BRYANT & MAY ON THE LOOSE
By: Christopher Fowler

A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery #7
Bantam
December 2009
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Featuring: Arthur Bryant; John May
352 pages
ISBN: 0553807196
EAN: 9780553807196
Hardcover
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Mystery Police Procedural

The Peculiar Crimes Unit is no more. After years of defying the odds and infuriating their embarrassed superiors, detectives Arthur Bryant and John May have at last crossed the line. This is the twenty-first century and not even their eccentric genius or phenomenal success rate solving London’s most unusual crimes can save them. While Bryant takes to his bed, his bathrobe, and his esoteric books, the rest of the team take to the streets looking for new careers—leading one of them to stumble upon a gruesome murder.

It isn’t so much the discovery of the headless corpse that’s potentially so politically explosive as where it’s found. Still it takes the bizarre sightings of a great horned creature—half man, half stag—carrying off young women to convince Bryant that this is a case worth getting dressed and leaving the house to solve. The Home Office has reluctantly authorized the PCU to reunite for one last encore performance—in a rented office with no computer network, no legal authority, and a broken toilet. They’ve got until the end of the week to solve a murder with unlikely links to gangland crime, Slavic mythology, the 2012 London Olympics, and the sort of corruption only obscene amounts of money and power can buy.

It’s the kind of case that Bryant and May live to solve— and it could be just the case that kills them.