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Cargando... Bryant & May and the Burning Man: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery (edición 2015)por Christopher Fowler (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. was just as intricate as the other books in the series that I've read or listened to. No, I did not figure out the killer. This book resolves two romantic relationships in the Peculiar Crimes Unit. The end would have been almost unbearably sad had I not known there have been other books written later, one of which I'd read. The horrific deaths of the various victims involve heat or fire. (At least two were rescued.) A giant wicker man set alight on Guy Fawkes Night is one method the killer used. When the killer is interviewed, the reason for the murders was appalling. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. This was another book that I struggled to get into. I generally liked the relationship between Bryant & May, but didn't really enjoy the story. The pace seemed slow. This may have been a product of right book, wrong time and if I go back and pick it up again it might click. I'm glad I sampled it but I don't know if I will try it again and doubt I'd read more in the series.This is a different book and one of a series on the eponymous detectives. They and the unit they work in are eccentric and different. I started this book slowly and took a while to get into it but I think that was just down to me. The setting is London and mostly in the square mile - aka the City or the financial district. The book is replete with the history of London and Londoner's courtesy of one of the main two characters. It also brings quite a bit of recent historical social context to the story - think of the 1 v 99%. One bug I have is the user likes to use obscure words - okay I'm duly impressed but unsure if it's at all helpful - even if very accurate - so again I'm torn. The story is quite a bit different than most thrillers and nicely paced and enjoyable. I'd recommend reading it - unsure if I'll read others i the series. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesBryant and May (12)
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML: 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. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This time, the unit is beset by the hostility of their former boss, Leslie Faraday, an incompetent civil servant who has just been promoted and is once again in control of their budget, and a senior policeman who is their new liaison officer but is working against them. More worrying, Arthur Bryant appears to be experiencing a diminution in his always remarkable mental powers.
The build up of crimes and race against time to prevent escalating attacks is good as ever, members of the unit not being immune from danger, and the ending is very poignant. I only had a slight problem with the slightly flat note when the culprit is finally apprehended - because of his dry reaction which contrasts to the emotion glimpsed in his point of view previously. That was the one point that kept this from being a 5 star read. ( )