Series
Bryant and May
Christopher Fowler · 19 novels · 1 short story · 1990–2021
Bryant and May follows two elderly detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, who lead London's Peculiar Crimes Unit - a division created during the Second World War to handle cases too strange or sensitive for ordinary police work. Christopher Fowler's series, beginning with Full Dark House, moves between the unit's wartime origins and its present-day investigations across nineteen novels.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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By decade
- 1990s2
- 2000s7
- 2010s10
- 2020s1
Shape
19 novels · 1 short story
1 author · completed series
reads like:mystery & detectivemurder investigationbritish islescontemporarymysteriousadult
Mood
This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book19 of 20 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Memory of Blooddarkest
- Oranges And Lemonsbrightest
- Seventy-Seven Clockscalmest
- White Corridormost intense