The Invisible Code: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery [Kindle Edition] Author: Christopher Fowler | Language: English | ISBN:
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Direct download links available Download The Invisible Code: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery [Kindle Edition] for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link London’s craftiest and boldest detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are back in this deviously twisting mystery of black magic, madness, and secrets hidden in plain sight.
When a young woman is found dead in the pews of St. Bride’s Church—alone and showing no apparent signs of trauma—Arthur Bryant assumes this case will go to the Peculiar Crimes Unit, an eccentric team tasked with solving London’s most puzzling murders. Yet the city police take over the investigation, and the PCU is given an even more baffling and bewitching assignment.
Called into headquarters by Oskar Kasavian, the head of Home Office security, Bryant and May are shocked to hear that their longtime adversary now desperately needs their help. Oskar’s wife, Sabira, has been acting strangely for weeks—succumbing to violent mood swings, claiming an evil presence is bringing her harm—and Oskar wants the PCU to find out why. And if there’s any duo that can deduce the method behind her madness, it’s the indomitable Bryant and May.
When a second bizarre death reveals a surprising link between the two women’s cases, Bryant and May set off on a trail of clues from the notorious Bedlam hospital to historic Bletchley Park. And as they are drawn into a world of encrypted codes and symbols, concealed rooms and high-society clubs, they must work quickly to catch a killer who lurks even closer than they think.
Witty, suspenseful, and ingeniously plotted, The Invisible Code is Christopher Fowler at the very top of his form.
Praise for The Invisible Code
“Delightful . . . priceless dialogue . . . Fowler’s small but ardent American following deserves to get much larger. . . . The Invisible Code has immense charm. . . . Fowler creates a fine blend of vivid descriptions, . . . quick thinking and artful understatement. . . . Best of all are the two main characters, particularly Bryant, whose fine British stodginess is matched perfectly by the agility of his crime-solving mind.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Excellent . . . In the light of the challenges that Fowler has given his heroes in prior books, it’s particularly impressive that he manages to surpass himself once again.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Witty, charming, intelligent, wonderfully atmospheric and enthusiastically plotted.”—The Times (UK)
“A series of narratives that exert an Ancient Mariner–like grip on the reader . . . Christopher Fowler is something of a British national treasure.”—Crime Time
“Quirky, ingenious and quite brilliant . . . If you haven’t indulged you are really missing out. . . . Wonderful, gently humorous stuff, so clever.”—The Bookseller
“A brilliant series of impossible crime novels.”—The Denver Post
“Grumpy Old Men does CSI with a twist of Dickens! Bryant and May are hilarious. I love this series.”—Karen Marie Moning
“An example of what Christopher Fowler does so well, which is to merge the old values with the new values—reassuring, solid, English, and traditional. He’s giving us two for the price of one here.”—Lee Child
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- File Size: 1620 KB
- Print Length: 368 pages
- Publisher: Bantam (December 17, 2013)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DK89N4I
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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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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