Christopher Fowler

One Sunday morning, the outspoken speaker of the House of Commons steps out of his front door only to be crushed under a mountain of citrus fruit. Bizarre accident or something more sinister....

An artist is found dead in a gallery with locked doors and windows. A television presenter is struck by lightning while indoors. Two seemingly impossible crimes....

The members of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the case again when a dog walker is found dead. The method of the death is odd...the killer had no way in - or out....

The odd couple of detection return in a tense, atmospheric new thriller that keeps you guessing right to the end....

One night, Arthur Bryant witnesses a drunken lady coming out of a pub. The next morning, she is found dead at the exact spot where their paths crossed. Disturbingly, the pub has vanished....

A banking scandal has filled the city with violent protests, and a young homeless man burns to death after being caught between rioters and the police....

Two small children - playing a game called 'Witch-Hunter' - place a curse on a young woman eating lunch in a church courtyard....

The unthinkable has happened at London's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the depths of winter, a member of staff has been found murdered, and everyone who works there is suddenly a suspect....

At a beautiful villa in the south of France, Hannah Carreras works as a maid. Under strict instructions never to speak to the guests, she blends into the background - but she sees everything, including the mistress lounging by the pool, awaiting the arrival of her married lover....

Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead. So begins Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors....

1969. Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May are among 10 guests about to enjoy a weekend at Tavistock Hall, with the detectives undercover, in disguise and tasked with protecting Monty Hatton-Jones....

The Thames is London's most important yet neglected artery. When a young woman is found chained to a post in the tide, no one can understand how she came to be drowned there....

This is the memoir Christopher Fowler always wanted to write about 'writing'. It's the story of how a young bookworm growing up in a house where there was nothing to read but knitting pamphlets and motorcycle manuals became a writer—a 'word monkey'—and pursued a sort of career in popular fiction.

As the nation's oldest serving detectives, we know more about London than almost anyone. After all, we've been walking its streets and impulsively arresting its citizens for decades. Who better to take you through its less savory side?

The Peculiar Crimes Unit has solved many extraordinary cases over the years, but some were hushed up and hidden away. Until now. Arthur Bryant remembers these lost cases as if they were yesterday....

The death of a child and what seems to be a murderous puppet make a perfect case for Bryant and May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit....

Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit is on the trail of an enigma: Mr Fox....

Long regarded as an anachronism, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is to be disbanded....

Two teenagers see a dead man rising from his grave. And if that's not alarming enough, one of them is killed in a hit and run accident....

In every detective's life there are cases that can't be discussed. Now Arthur Bryant has decided to open the files on 11 of these previously unseen investigations....