White Corridor: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery (Peculiar Crimes Unit, #5) (Bryant and May) (Peculiar Crimes Unit Mysteries (Bantam Paperback))

by Christopher Fowler

It’s the classic locked-room mystery—a member of the Peculiar Crimes Unit killed inside a sealed morgue populated only by the dead and to which only four PCU members had a key. To make matters worse, the Unit has been shut down for a forced “vacation,” and Bryant and May are stuck in a van in the Dartmoor countryside during a freak snowstorm. Now they’ll have to crack the case by cell phone while trying to stop a second murder without freezing to death. For among the line of trapped vehicles, a killer is on the prowl, a beautiful woman is on the run, and an innocent child is caught in the middle….

• ISBN10: 055358832X
• ISBN13: 9780553588323
• Publish Date: 30 September 2008 (first published 1 January 2007)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 368
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780553588323

Reviews

[annieb123]

As always; taut, intricate, loopy characters who are a lot more sensible than they appear. I am not usually overfond of book series which have strong ordinal continuity, but it suits the Bryant & May series. You would need a programme to keep up with the cast of characters otherwise.

Loved this book. Absolutely love the series. I love the writing which is consistently top notch and the dialogue which is unforced and natural. The pacing is taut (which is difficult when half the book is played out in a blizzard in a 'closed seting') and the denoument is brilliant. Usually I can anticipate the ending halfway into a book. That is almost never the case with Christopher Fowler.

White corridor is a strong book in a very strong series.