Bryant & May Investigate the Victoria Vanishes (Bryant & May #6)
Bryant & May Investigate the Victoria Vanishes (Bryant & May #6)
Author: Christopher Fowler
Desc: One night Arthur Bryant witnesses a drunk middle-aged lady coming out of a pub in a London backstreet. The next morning she is found dead at the exact spot where their paths crossed. Even more disturbing there's a twist: the pub has vanished and the street itself has changed. Bryant is convinced that he saw them as they looked over a century before but the elderly detective has already lost the funeral urn of an old friend. Could he be losing his mind as well? Then it becomes clear that a number of women have met their ends in London pubs. It seems a silent secret killer is at work striking in full view...and yet nobody has a clue how or why - or where he'll attack next. The likeliest suspect seems to be a mental patient with a reason for killing. But knowing who the killer is and catching him are two very different propositions. As their new team at the Peculiar Crimes Unit goes in search of a madman the octogenarian detectives ready themselves for the pub crawl of a lifetime and come face to face with their own mortality...