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Bryant & May and the Burning Man

Bryant and May Series, Book 12

#12 in series

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London is under siege. A banking scandal has filled the city with violent protests, and as the anger in the streets detonates, a young homeless man burns to death after being caught in the crossfire between rioters and the police. But all is not as it seems; an opportunistic killer is using the chaos to exact revenge, but his intended victims are so mysteriously chosen that the Peculiar Crimes Unit is called in to find a way of stopping him. Using their network of eccentric contacts, elderly detectives Arthur Bryant and John May hunt down a murderer who adopts incendiary methods of execution. But they soon find their investigation taking an apocalyptic turn as the case comes to involve the history of mob rule, corruption, rebellion, punishment and the legend of Guy Fawkes. At the same time, several members of the PCU team reach dramatic turning points in their lives - but the most personal tragedy is yet to come, for as the race to bring down a cunning killer reaches its climax, Arthur Bryant faces his own devastating day of reckoning. 'I always said we'd go out with a hell of a bang,' warns Bryant.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 21, 2015
      The onset of a form of dementia for series lead Arthur Bryant adds poignancy to Fowler’s 12th Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery (after 2014’s Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart). When London is convulsed by massive riots sparked by the revelation that banker Dexter Cornell walked away from his partnership with millions, despite having cheated the bank’s customers out of their savings, the unit seeks to restore public order. As the protestors’ looting and arson continue, someone fatally torches Freddie Weeks, a recent employee of a sustainable food market who was sleeping rough on the streets. Weeks’s killing is followed by others, committed in particularly sadistic fashion, but with no obvious link among the victims. A diagnosis of a rare cognitive disorder raises doubts about Bryant’s fitness to serve with the PCU. The solution may disappoint a bit, but Fowler is even better than usual at getting readers to care about his squad of misfits. Agent: Howard Morhaim, Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

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