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Strange Tide (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit, Bk 13)
Strange Tide - Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit, Bk 13 Author:Christopher Fowler The Peculiar Crimes Unit faces its most baffling case yet—and if Bryant and May can’t rise to the challenge, the entire unit may go under. Near the Tower of London, along the River Thames, the body of a woman has been discovered chained to a stone post and left to drown. Curiously, only one set of footprints leads to the tragic spot.... more » “The Bride in the Tide,” as the London press gleefully dubs her, has the PCU stumped. Why wouldn’t the killer simply dump her body in the river—as so many do?
Arthur Bryant wonders if the answer lies in the mythology of the Thames itself. Unfortunately, the normally wobbly funhouse corridors of Bryant’s mind have become, of late, even more labyrinthine. May fears the worst, as Bryant rapidly descends from merely muddled to one stop short of Barking, hallucinating that he’s traveled back in time to solve the case. Can the unit function without one of its senior members on his game? As more bodies show up in the river, the unit tries to fathom how the victims were connected to one another.« less