Bryant & May – Hall of Mirrors
  • Published: 15 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9780857503114
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $29.99

Bryant & May – Hall of Mirrors

(Bryant & May Book 16)

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Fans of Christopher Fowler's gloriously inventive, imaginative series are in for a period treat - Hall of Mirrors is set in 1969 during a country house weekend, with a killer at large and featuring a youthful and unexpectedly sprightly Arthur Bryant and John May!

The year is 1969 and ten guests are about to enjoy a country house weekend at Tavistock Hall. But one amongst them is harbouring thoughts of murder. . .

The guests also include the young detectives Arthur Bryant and John May – undercover, in disguise and tasked with protecting Monty Hatton-Jones, a whistle-blower turning Queen’s evidence in a massive bribery trial. Luckily, they’ve got a decent chap on the inside who can help them – the one-armed Brigadier, Nigel ‘Fruity’ Metcalf.

The house’s owner – a penniless, dope-smoking aristocrat – is intent on selling the estate (complete with its own hippy encampment) to a secretive millionaire but the weekend has only just started when the millionaire goes missing and murder is on the cards. But army manoeuvres have closed the only access road and without a forensic examiner, Bryant and May can’t solve the case. It’s when a falling gargoyle fells another guest that the two incognito detectives decide to place their future reputations on the line. And in the process discover that in Swinging Britain nothing is quite what it seems…

So gentle reader, you are cordially invited to a weekend in the country. Expect murder, madness and mayhem in the mansion!
  • Published: 15 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9780857503114
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler is the author of more than forty novels (sixteen of which feature the detectives Bryant and May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit) and many short story collections. A multiple award-winner, including the coveted CWA ‘Dagger in the Library’, Chris has also written screenplays, video games, graphic novels, audio plays and two acclaimed memoirs, Paperboy and Film Freak. His most recent non-fiction book is The Book of Forgotten Authors. Chris divides his time between London's King’s Cross and Barcelona. You can find out more by visiting his website and following him on Twitter.

Also by Christopher Fowler

Bryant & May - Oranges and Lemons
The Foot on the Crown
Word Monkey
Bryant & May’s Peculiar London
Bryant & May - London Bridge is Falling Down
Bryant & May – England’s Finest
Bryant & May - The Lonely Hour
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Praise for Bryant & May – Hall of Mirrors

Fowler always manages to keep things fresh, and Hall of Mirrors is no exception . . . as well written and original as ever.

CRIME FICTION LOVER

'Laugh-out-loud funny . . . long-running, eccentric and consistently entertaining.

BOOKLIST

The prequel to end all prequels, wonderfully literate, fully of great dialogue and, at times, very poignant. Top quality entertainment.

FULLY BOOKED

More fully fleshed-out suspects, clues, red herrings, twists, and honest mystery and detection than in the last three whodunits you read.

KIRKUS REVIEWS

How easy it is to forget how good a series this is . . . Fowler has created such an effective cast of characters over the course of the series that you can’t help but be drawn into their world. An engrossing page turner of a book, with characters that you care about and a plot to keep you thinking.

CLASSIC MYSTERY

Fowler evokes the period as neatly as he crafts the plot.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Distinctively bonkers while never straying away from an intriguing mystery that keeps the reader guessing . . . the resolution is a bit of a cracker . . . another winner from Christopher Fowler and his merry curmudgeons . . . Highly Recommended.

CLASSIC MYSTERY