Book Review: Christopher Fowler’s The Victoria Vanishes
Long-ago secrets, a lonely-hearts killer, and the Official Secrets Act conspire to tear down everything the Peculiar Crimes Unit has worked for. Aided by their own people.
Long-ago secrets, a lonely-hearts killer, and the Official Secrets Act conspire to tear down everything the Peculiar Crimes Unit has worked for. Aided by their own people.
An impossible crime, a freak snowstorm, a killer prowling the stranded vehicles, and a mother and child on the run. Can Bryant and May solve the crimes? And survive the snow?
Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear are up against a legend, a heroic Arapaho patrolman who met a fiery death in the canyon almost a half-century ago.
Celebrity murders and a masked and caped Highwayman lead Bryant and May a merry chase as they dodge the bureaucracy attempting to shut them down.
No longer employed by the Minnesota BCA, Lucas Davenport finds himself at loose ends…until his friend the governor needs help on the presidential campaign trail.
Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent into Hitler’s Germany to retrieve valuable “property”.
An eccentric English spinster and the most lovable and unlikely master of detection, Miss Seeton will draw her way into your heart as she uses logic despite kidnappings and shootings.
Bryant and May are up against a series of bizarre murders that defy human understanding — and a killer no human hand may be able to stop.
Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s inept replacement in Virginia grudgingly asks her for help to solve a troublesome death. Meanwhile Benton and Lucy have their own stalker issues.
Detectives John May and Arthur Bryant are one mistake away from being shut down. When the elderly sister of Bryant’s friend is found dead in the basement of her decrepit house, they are on the verge of making exactly that mistake.