Another fantastic twisting, odd mystery. I really enjoy the quirkiness of these mysteries and think all the research material used to write one would be of equal interest. These two guys are a joy to read about. I love the way they work together and the team them got together to help investigations.These books scream for a series. I can just picture Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen for the leads. Can't you?

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I learned a lot about the London Underground in this story. I really do love this series- it’s pretty unpredictable and all the characters of the Peculiar Crimes Unit are just as much part of it as Arthur Bryant and John May. Recommended series.

The eighth in the Peculiar Crimes series was just as enjoyable as the last. Bryant & May once again have to salvage the existence of their unit and its members (oh the stress these people must live under!) But we readers are treated to more esoteric knowledge of the inner workings of London---and some of its criminals. And the wonderful atmosphere continues along the way. He listened to the city. A few minutes earlier it had been virtually silent, but almost on the stroke of seven o'clock a low,...

Currently, my least fav. of the Bryant and May series. I just could not follow the plot. Now, the plots/story lines are often a bit convoluted and wander a bit, and I don't necessarily dislike them for that. I LOVE the two main characters, the frumpy Arthur Bryant, the suave John May, both elderly, but both in top-notch shape mentally. I like the staff around them; the circumstances in which they're always fighting for their special, investigative unit, the PCU, which works on crimes which might...

I love this series of books about the Peculiar Crimes Unit, featuring Bryant and May. How many mysteries involving murders also make you laugh out loud? The rag-tag group of detectives led by Bryant/May are constantly in danger of being unemployed as the "powers that be" are never quite sure what to make of the Unit's methods of investigation.In this edition, killings in the Underground, which begin with a seemingly accidental fall, escalate as the Unit desperately tries to make a connection wit...

This is another very enjoyable instalment in the excellent Bryant & May series. This one follows on directly from On The Loose; it works fine as a stand-alone book, but I would strongly recommend reading the series in order for maximum enjoyment.The team are still officially disbanded but still on the trail of “Mr. Fox” in King’s Cross. A series of events means that if they catch him and solve another seemingly unrelated death on the Underground, the Unit will be reinstated. And so begins the us...

Mr Fowlers knowledge of my home town is superb, well written and researched. When a book can pull you in and lets you become a part of it then it is time to walk the streets of London as soon as you can and living in Scotland this is the best way.Top marks for another excellent story of the grand old detectives of the PCU.

Review from BadelyngeChristopher Fowler's brilliantly conceived British detective series continues. This one has quite a lot of mess to clean up from the previous book. Mr Fox is back on the loose after his escape from custody and the Peculiar Crimes Unit is reeling from the death of one of their own. Bryant and May must use every resource available to bring the killer in or it's curtains for the unit.London bleeds from these books. With so many writers setting their story in London these days,

I found the characters likeable but the mystery itself a bit incoherent. My favorite parts were the descriptions of the Tube, with all the stations and corridors which were dug and then later taken out of service. I also find the level of surveillance cameras in Britain just a tad Orwellian.

This is part two of the Mr. Fox story with a group of university students thrown in just to confuse matters. April May is in Toronto with her uncle recovering from another bout of agoraphobia and the unit has acquired a pair of Turkish workers, both named Dave, who are much more interested in what the unit is doing than they are in getting a proper job done on the electrical and carpentry repairs in the abandoned factory the unit is using as a headquarters. I enjoy the way these outsiders seem t...

Author..................... Christopher FowlerNarrator.................. Tim GoodmanAbr/Unabr.............. UnabridgedGenre................... Fiction - MysterySeries Name..............Bryant and MayPosition in Series.... ..8 (2010)Total Runtime......... 10 Hours 48 MinsBlurb: The most enigmatic detectives in British crime fiction since Holmes and Watson return in their eighth wickedly entertaining and intriguing investigation...Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the tra...

Off the Rails is right! The plot got rather stodgy in this one, with Bryant going off on a tangent, as usual. which is why I didn't enjoy this one so much as the others - or maybe I'm just getting a little bit tired of Bryant's idiosyncrasies and May's moaning!

Eighth in the Bryant & May mystery crime series based in London and revolving around two ancient detectives who should have retired years ago.My TakeDespite being shut down in Bryant & May on the Loose , 7, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is back up…on probation…at The Old Warehouse. It's mostly Bryant in this with his magic tricks and rudeness, although he was quite mild with the students. The running joke in Bryant and May Off the Rails is those playing and tarot cards Bryant is messing about with...

My first venture into the world of Bryant & May (#8 in the series). The book was entertaining and I liked the personalities and the back & forth of the two detectives. Another reader said, "I found the characters likeable but the mystery itself a bit incoherent," and that was basically my thought as well. I will seek out another one or two of the books and see if it just happened to be this particular mystery that was somewhat 'incoherent'. Sometimes it's better to start at the beginning of a se...

Fowler outdid himself in this masterful mystery spiked with humorous descriptions and dialogue. Bryant and May, along with their retinue compliment each other. Fowler makes me think and often laugh out loud. Love the series like I do.

First Sentence: With regard to your apprehension of the hired assassin operating in the King’s Cross area, this so-called ‘King’s Cross Executioner’ chap, thank you for acting so quickly on the matter, although it’s a pity he subsequently managed to give you the slip.A killer known as Mr. Fox has been captured by Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May, but escaped, murdering one of their colleagues in the process. A body has been discovered in a station of London’s Underground. Was Mr. Fox the ki...

Having read Bryant & May On The Loose by Christopher Fowler for the Transworld Summer Reading Challenge, I decided to give the next book in the series a go.Bryant & May Off The Rails follows the aging, octogenarian detectives as they search for killer who has escaped their clutches and they only have one week to do it in, otherwise the Peculiar Crimes Unit will be shut down. While they search for one murderer it seems like another may be on the loose as a young mother falls down a tube station s...

I love the Bryant and May stories, they have acharm all of their own, this one kicks off straight away after the last one finished, continuing the story of Mr Fox.there's a fantastic bit near the beginning that goes "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 whispy band of white hair arranged in a straggling tonsure.fill its pockets with rubbish, old penni...

This was my first time reading anything by Fowler, and I'm not eager to read another. Despite enjoying bits and pieces of Off the Rails, overall I was left unimpressed. Bryant and May may be quirky as characters go, but for me they were nothing more than that, and I simply couldn't connect with either them, or any other character in the book. Unfortunately, I didn't find them all that interesting either, which would have been enough for this type of book. The conversations between them left me a...