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Bryant & May Off The Rails (2010)

by Christopher Fowler(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0385614667 (ISBN13: 9780385614665)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Doubleday

series

Bryant & May

review 1: Well, Fowler keeps getting better at the mystery part of things. This book definitely tilted more in the direction of lots of plot twists over London history. Also, he started to up the humor with the two Daves, but they kind of faded off by the end of the book. I'm definitely invested in the characters, so wanted to see the gang catch the bad guy(s).On a much funnier note, how delightful fiction must be as an author. Early in the series, the premise was Bryant writing his memoir and setting down on paper particularly interesting cases, including his and May's first case. In this book, a bit of dialogue establishes that he was playing fast and loose by placing the case during World War II--this just happens to take at least a decade off the ages of Bryant and May! Needless... more to say, this can keep the series running longer. I was very jealous. Why can't my age be obfuscated with a little update in my history? LOL--all those stories about a childhood in the sixties were just stories. I really don't remember anything until the seventies =-).
review 2: Bryant and May are the oldest 'tecs in the world, beating Jane Marple by about 100 years. Recently displaced from the Metropolitan Police, they and the rest of the largely dysfunctional Peculiar Crimes Unit now report direct to the Home Office, who are trying to put a final stop to their activities. The criminal who they picked up for murder in their previous book (B & M On the Loose (q.v.)) has escaped and gone to ground, well underground actually. He's out and killing again, and he's possibly not the only one. Or it could be any one of six students who share a flat in Bloomsbury, or at least any one of them who's left alive, since they are dropping like flies too. While two Turkish Daves litefally take the office apart, B & M use their best psychology to hunt the killer or killers, including white magic, dowsing and card tricks. This is a super sleuth story told at break-neck speed, and technologically up to the mark, although as usual Arthur Bryant can't cope with it. I enjoyed this as much as the others, although it's a bit lightweight compared to some. 6/10 less

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