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Praise for Christopher Fowler's Bryant & May mysteries:

'Quirky, touching, profound and utterly original.'

Peter James

'Slow burning, adroitly plotted, with a distinct atmosphere . . . goes against the grain of most detective fiction and is the better for it.'

Daily Telegraph

'One of the quirkiest and most ingenious pleasures to be found in the genre: atmospheric, sardonically funny and craftily suspenseful.'

amazon.co.uk

'Marvellous . . . these are really, really great reads.'

BBC Radio 4's 'Front Row'

'Invests the traditions of the Golden Age of detective fiction with a tongue-in-cheek post-modernism.'

Evening Standard

'Page-turning . . . bear all the hallmarks of the classic British mystery.'

Guardian

'An imaginative fun house . . . life always seems livelier whenever Arthur Bryant and John May are on the case.'

New York Times Book Review

'Fowler, like his crime-solvers, is dead-pan, sly and always unexpectedly inventive.'

Entertainment Weekly

Long regarded an anachronism and a thorn in the side of its superiors, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is to be disbanded. For octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May, it seems retirement is now the only option. But then a headless body is found in a freezer, and on the perimeter of a massive construction site near King's Cross, a gigantic figure has been spotted - dressed in deerskin and sporting antlers made of knives and suddenly, with limited resources and very little time, the PCU are back in business...

In the panoply of great fictional detective duos, Bryant & May rank alongside (and somewhere in between) Holmes & Watson and Mulder & Scully...