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Two small children - playing a game called 'Witch-Hunter' - place a curse on a young woman eating lunch in a church courtyard. An hour later the woman is found dead. Then a society photographer is stabbed to death in a nearby park and suddenly a link emerges between the two cases. As the members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit investigate, they realise that the case might not just end in disaster - it might also get everyone killed.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 11 hours and 1 minute
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- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
- Audible.com Release Date: August 2, 2012
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008RT1MAS
In the churchyard of London's St. Bride's Church, a young woman sits reading until, driven away by the annoyance of two young children, she enters the church's nave. Minutes later, she collapses and dies. The children report that they were playing a game of "witch hunter" and put a curse on her that killed her.
When the autopsy fails to identify a specific cause of death, Arthur Bryant of the Home Office's Peculiar Crimes Unit naturally wants the case. But the Metropolitan Police have jurisdiction and the PCU, being persona non grata in the Home Office, lack the power to take over.
Certainly their enemy-in-chief, the satanic Oscar Kasavian, isn't about to lift a finger to help them. He has vowed to wipe out the PCU and, particularly its beyond-retirement-age leads, Arthur Bryant and John May. Imagine Bryant and May's surprise, then, when Kasavian almost humbly asks them to help him with a problem involving his young wife.
As Bryant and May and the rest of the PCU team begin to investigate, the case takes on ever larger proportions. Government corruption, whistleblowers in private industry, mental illness and its history in London, private clubs, Russian gangsters, codes and ciphers and the supernatural are all thrown into the heady mix. On top of all that, there are disquieting revelations of how the British class system, cronyism and the complete disregard of commercial/government conflicts of interest conspire to ensure that a cabal of venal and ruthless men stay in power in British government.
But this is no grim, deadly serious police procedural. With the PCU, that's just not possible.
Before even beginning, I was struck by two things.
1. I was enchanted with Fowler's dedication:
For Jennifer Siegel,
smart cookie, good egg, hot tamale
2. I applauded his bravery in bucking the advice to;
"'Make your leading character younger, and put more sex and violence if you want them to be a success...' Blithely ignoring his advice I ploughed on, determined to create a pair of intelligent Golden Age detectives who are forced to deal with the modern world. I knew I'd have fun just watching Arthur Bryant trying to use a smartphone."
Arthur Bryant and John May are the older detectives who are able to catch their witnesses and their suspects off guard because they seem so old school, so not with it. And that is precisely what Bryant and May want them to think while they are in fact cagily asking precise insightful questions.
Amy O'Connor is still furious with herself two years later for having lost the only man she's ever loved. On this particular day she sits outside the church with her book when two children playing a game of Witch Hunter "and you have to ride across the countryside and find witches to kill." When Amy goes into the church, the two children watch from the doorway and decide she is the witch. Moments later Amy falls over dead.
Soon, however, Bryant and May are taken off that case and put on a seemingly irrelevant and far less exciting case. Sabira has been married to Oskar Kasavian, the head of Home Office security, for four years. He would like to advance his career and it would seem that there are those who would like to prevent it. Eventually committed to a mental hospital, some believe Sabira is faking her madness to destroy her husband's career, others are certain she is being framed.
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