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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Bryant and May triumph again
I really enjoy this series! The characters have depth and the mysteries are intriguing. I rarely can predict the convoluted solutions.
I really enjoy this series! The characters have depth and the mysteries are intriguing. I rarely can predict the convoluted solutions.
In Bryant and May on the Loose, elderly detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit apprehended a criminal known as "Mr. Fox" but he escaped from custody killing a member of the PCU staff in the process. The PCU is told that they have a week to recapture Mr. Fox or else the Unit will be permanently disbanded. Get to work, you octogenarians.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Another easy read crime novel with the two old boys of the PCU. Until the final pages, the motive behind the crime wasn't revealed.
3.5 stars.
This book was fun to read and was a perfect palate cleanser after my last heavy literary meal. I loved the author's bubbly style:
"Arthur Bryant: Have you met him before? If not, imagine a tortoise minus its shell, thrust upright and stuffed into a dreadful suit. Give it glasses, false teeth and a hearing aid, and a wispy band of white hair arranged in a straggling tonsure. Fill its pockets with rubbish: old pennies and scribbled notes, boiled sweets and leaky pens, a glass model of a Ford Prefect filled with Isle of Wight sand, yards of string, a stuffed mouse, some dried peas. And fill its head with a mad scramble of ideas: the height of the steeple at St. Clement Danes, the tide table of the Thames, the dimensions of Waterloo Station and the MOs of murderers. On top of this, add the enquiring wonder of a ten-year-old boy. Now you have some measure of the man."
Can't wait to spend more time with the Peculiar Crimes Unit. (Fans of The Rivers of London series will probably like this one too.)
This book was fun to read and was a perfect palate cleanser after my last heavy literary meal. I loved the author's bubbly style:
"Arthur Bryant: Have you met him before? If not, imagine a tortoise minus its shell, thrust upright and stuffed into a dreadful suit. Give it glasses, false teeth and a hearing aid, and a wispy band of white hair arranged in a straggling tonsure. Fill its pockets with rubbish: old pennies and scribbled notes, boiled sweets and leaky pens, a glass model of a Ford Prefect filled with Isle of Wight sand, yards of string, a stuffed mouse, some dried peas. And fill its head with a mad scramble of ideas: the height of the steeple at St. Clement Danes, the tide table of the Thames, the dimensions of Waterloo Station and the MOs of murderers. On top of this, add the enquiring wonder of a ten-year-old boy. Now you have some measure of the man."
Can't wait to spend more time with the Peculiar Crimes Unit. (Fans of The Rivers of London series will probably like this one too.)
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Audiobook (All of my entries on The Story Graph are audiobooks.)
#8 in series
Will I read other installments?Probably Not Maybe Likely Most LIkely Definitely I have been committed to this series for a few years. I started reading them as ebooks. They are cumbersome and I have so many others series to read, so I switched to audio versions last year.
Comparison to others in series:Better About the same Not as good Good, but it could have been better - I was loving it, but then the end was a bit unsatisfying. The wrap up was a bit of a disappointment because they didn't do much with the Mr. Fox problem.
The narrator was Tim Goodman. He does a wonderful job with all of the characters.
#8 in series
Will I read other installments?
Comparison to others in series:
The narrator was Tim Goodman. He does a wonderful job with all of the characters.
Content Warnings
Minor: Addiction, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Classism
Another Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery, in which strange things are happening on the Underground system. Is there a connection between these seemingly random murders? And will the PCU be dissolved again? As always, a good read with lots of complexity.
Number 8 in the series, again not a big deal if you haven't read the earlier ones, but this one does pick up right where #7 left off. This one is set predominantly in King's Cross station and actually underground, in THE TUBES. I probably won't go immediately searching for the rest of the series because I don't want to overdose on them, and because I have enough on my to-read list right now, but I do like the characters a lot and will come back to them.