Bryant & May off the Rails

by Christopher Fowler

A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

Bryant and May are back and on the case, or so it seems. Of course, the Peculiar Crime Unit’s very existence is precarious.

Their last arrestee, “Mr. Fox,” has escaped. Now they’ve got to find him, as well as the killer in the tube. Their subway investigation leads them to a group of university students, who, naturally, have no respect for the geriatric detectives. Not surprisingly, the two cases converge in a subway station.

While the mystery was not predictable, there was something flat about this Bryant & May novel. There seemed to be less emphasis on the quirkiness of the duo and their less than conventional methods of detection.

Kind of disappointing.

11/14/10