Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... White Corridor: (Bryant & May Book 5) (edition 2008)by Christopher Fowler
Work InformationWhite Corridor by Christopher Fowler
Books Read in 2022 (4,184) Next in Series (9) Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. this is a great Bryant and May with the usual "supernatural" element and I felt, a bit more suspense then usual ( ) This fifth in the series is a lot better than books 1, 3, and 4, although it doesn't for me come up to the standard of the second Bryant and May novel, The Water Room. Be that as it may, the story is rather more varied than the last couple of volumes, with definite and separate plot strands: B & M are stranded in a snowdrift in the west country and have to help their London colleagues by phone who are trying to solve an unexpected death that has come too close for comfort I liked this story because it had some good twists. Unlike the last couple of volumes, I didn't work out at least part of the solution or, as in The Seventy-Seven Clocks, find it totally unbelievable (though I suppose hints are dropped that The Seventy-Seven Clocks was mostly made up by Arthur Bryant). White Corridor has suspense, drama and I didn't guess the solution to the various strands before the characters worked it out; this time, it was all a surprise and I think it would probably pay re-reading to see exactly how it comes out once you know the solutions. Not quite up to The Water Room, which I loved, but a well deserved 4 stars. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesIs contained in
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:From using crackpot psychics to cutting-edge forensics, Arthur Bryant and John May are famous for their maddeningly unorthodox approach to solving crimes that the ordinary police cannot. Now Christopher Fowler, ??a new master of the classical detective story,?* brings back crime detection??s oddest??and oldest??couple to solve the ultimate locked room mystery. It??s an ??impossible? crime??a member of the Peculiar Crimes Unit killed inside a locked autopsy room populated only by the dead and to which only four PCU members had a key. And to make matters worse, the Unit has been shut down for a forced ??vacation? and Bryant and May are stuck in a van miles away in the Dartmoor countryside during a freak snowstorm on their way to a convention of psychics. Now, with Sergeant Janice Longbright in charge at headquarters, Bryant and May must crack the case by cell phone while trying to stop a second murder without freezing to death. For among the line of snowed-in vehicles, a killer is on the prowl, a beautiful woman is on the run from a man who seeks either redemption or another victim, and an innocent child is caught in the middle. Weaving together two electrifying cases, White Corridor is an unforgettable triumph??by turns hilarious and harrowing??as two of detective fiction??s most marvelous characters confront one of human nature??s darkest mysterie No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNonePopular covers
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |