Chris is a Londoner, and now a full time author. He used to own a film studio, along with his partner, where most of the trailers for the British films were created. In 2004 I was able to see this studio, as Chris had invited my sister and I to come over. Needless to say I'm a big fan of Chris's writings!
After the death of his partner, Chris sold the studio and concentrated solely on writing. He enjoys a major success with his Bryant and May novels - novels about an elderly pair of detectives who head the Peculiar Crimes Unit.
Whenever a crime is committed and the normal police don't have a clue, the case goes to Arthur Bryant and John May, both well above their pension age. In the first of the series, both are over 80.
Fowler takes us back to the years of World War II, when a young Bryant and May take on their first case - that of the Palace Phantom. A London theatre has a ghost, or so it is said.... A murdering one, because more than one actor suffers death. It's up to the two detectives to find out what's going on.
Bryant is a rather special one. He allows his mind to leave the borders of the ordinary, and although he looks quite confusing, he mostly comes up with an answer to impossible questions. May is more a mathematician, but he is the right counterpart of Bryant. Their co-workers also are a bunch of drop-outs of other units. But inspired by their leaders, they also come to effect.
Christopher Fowler knows London very well. When you are reading his novels, you'll find out a lot about this city. The second novel in the series is titled The Water Room and it's actually based on Christopher's own house near King's Cross.
He also has a good sense of humor. Whenever you are reading one of his novels, you'll burst out in laughter in-between.
These books are worth a recommendation. If you haven't read one of Fowler's novels, you must certainly do.
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