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The memory of blood

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English

Synopsis

When a young woman is found dead in a London theatre with no blood in her body, the case lands on the desks of the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May are drawn into the secretive world of stage magicians and a family with a dark past. To solve the impossible crime, they must uncover secrets buried deep in the city's history.

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Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler would make a good serial killer. He's charming and English and lives in a white penthouse with a view of St Paul’s Cathedral, and you'd think butter wouldn't melt in his mouth until you read his dark urban fiction — 17 novels and over 120 short stories so far. His œuvre divides into black comedy, horror, mystery, the odd revolting death and a set of novels unclassifiable enough to have publishers tearing their hair out. Emerging from a film industry background, he has come p...

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