Christopher Fowler Bücher

Eigentlich will der Drehbuchautor Robert Linden nur für einen neuen Film recherchieren, doch dabei kommt er einer Geheimbande auf die Spur, die mit ihren Ritualmorden der Polizei Rätsel aufgibt. Auf den Dächern von London leben sonderbare junge Leute nach eigenen Gesetzen. Nachts fliegen sie an Nylonschnüren über die verhaßte, laute Metropole. Doch während die einen die Freiheit ihrer Schattenwelt bewahren wollen, haben die anderen der ganzen Stadt den Krieg erklärt. Robert Linden gelingt es, einen Weg in jenes dunkle Reich auf Londons Dächer zu finden. Und bald steckt er mitten in einem Bandenkrieg, wie er grausamer nicht sein könnte. Mit seinem ersten Roman hat Christopher Fowler sogleich sein eigenes, großes Thema gefunden: das gleichermaßen faszinierende wie unheimliche Leben der Großstadt. ÜBER DEN DÄCHERN VON LONDON wirkt so beängstigend real, daß der Leser unwillkürlich das Gefühl bekommt, als sei diese frede Welt über London längst Wirklichkeit geworden - auch auf den Dächern der eigenen Stadt.

Stellen Sie sich einen klassischen Horrorfilm vor, den Hammer Films nie gemacht hat. Ein grandioses Epos aus den Hochzeiten des Studios, eine Mischung aus den alten Dracula und Frankenstein Filmen und Dr. Terrors House Of Horrors … Vier Passagiere treffen sich auf einer Zugreise durch Osteuropa während des Ersten Weltkrieges; konfrontiert mit einem Mysterium, das gelöst werden muss, wenn sie überleben wollen. Was ist in dem Sarg, vor dem jeder so viel Angst hat? Was ist das tragische Geheimnis der verschleierten Roten Gräfin, die mit ihnen reist? Warum wird ihr Mitreisender, der Brigadegeneral, von seinen eigenen Soldaten so gefürchtet? Und was genau ist das Geheimnis des teuflischen Ärzengels selbst? Bizarre Kreaturen, satanische Riten, verängstigte Passagiere und die Romantik einer Bahnreise … im Stile eines klassischen Horror-Romans. Reisen Sie mit … wenn Sie sich trauen! 'Fowler schreibt teuflisch kluge und sarkastische Romane.' - Val McDermid, The Times 'Christopher Fowler ist ein preisgekrönter Schriftsteller, der auch einen guten Serienmörder abgeben würde.' - Time Out 'Fowler fordert seine Leser immer wieder auf, die Grenzen zwischen Unschuld und Bosheit, Rationalität und Paranoia neu zu finden. Er hat die unheimliche Fähigkeit, den Terror ans Tageslicht zu ziehen.' - The Guardian auf Demonised

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. And it's a book full of brilliant insights into the pleasures and pitfalls of his profession, dos and don'ts for would-be writers, and astute observations on favourite (and not-so-favourite) novelists.But woven into this hugely entertaining and inspiring reflection on a literary life is an altogether darker thread. In Spring 2020, just as the world went into lockdown, Chris was diagnosed with terminal cancer. And yet there is nothing of the misery memoir about Word Monkey. Past and present intermingle as, in prose as light as air, he relates with wry humour and remarkable honesty what he knows will be the final chapter in his story.Deeply moving, insightful and surprisingly funny, this is Christopher Fowler's life-affirming account of coming to terms with his own mortality.

It was the kind of story that barely made the news.When 91-year-old Amelia Hoffman died in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it's considered an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she slipped through the cracks in a failing system.But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their doubts. Mrs Hoffman was once a government security expert, even though no one can quite remember her. When a link emerges between the old lady and a diplomat trying to flee the country, it seems that an impossible murder has been committed.Mrs Hoffman wasn't the only one at risk. Bryant is convinced that other forgotten women with hidden talents are also in danger. And, curiously, they all own models of London Bridge.With the help of some of their more certifiable informants, the detectives follow the strangest of clues in an investigation that will lead them through forgotten alleyways to the city's oldest bridge in search of a desperate killer.But just when the case appears to be solved, they discover that Mrs Hoffman was smarter than anyone imagined. There's a bigger game afoot that could have terrible consequences. It's time to celebrate Bryant and May's twentieth anniversary as their most lunatic case yet brings death and rebirth to London's most peculiar crimes unit.

A hotel offers a taboo service for its troubled clients. A young man must wind a thousand clocks before sunset. A vampire library attacks its readers. A shy young man loses a dog and discovers the cutlery of the Marquis de Sade. A lottery winner soon wishes he hadn't won. Deranged office workers take over a building. Incarceration, incantations, revenge, romance and the end of the world - twice. Personal Demons are Christopher Fowler's tales of the the fantastic and the wilder side of modern urban living. They reflect the rich and various talents of a writer called 'ghoulishly irresistible' by The Times.

"When a prominent politician is crushed by a fruit van making a delivery, the singular team of Arthur Bryant and John May overcome insurmountable odds to reunite the PCU and solve the case in the brainy new mystery from acclaimed author Christopher Fowler. On a spring morning in London's Strand, the Speaker of the House of Commons is nearly killed by a van unloading oranges and lemons for the annual St. Clement Danes festival. It's an absurd near-death experience, but the government is more interested in investigating the Speaker's state of mind just prior to his accident. The task is given to the Peculiar Crimes Unit--the only problem being that the unit no longer exists. Its Chief, Raymond Land, is tending his daffodils on the Isle of Wight and senior detectives Arthur Bryant and John May are out of commission; May is undergoing surgery for a bullet wound and Bryant has been missing for a month. What's more, the old unit in King's Cross is being turned into a vegetarian tapas bar. Against impossible odds, the team is reassembled and once again what should have been a simple case becomes a lunatic farrago involving arson, suicide, magicians, academics and a race to catch a killer with a master plan involving London churches. Joining their team this time is Sidney, a young woman with no previous experience, plenty of attitude--and a surprising secret"--

And, as the legend has it, when the ravens leave, the nation falls...Soon it seems death is all around and Bryant and May must confront a group of latter- day bodysnatchers, explore an eerie funeral parlour and unearth the gruesome legend of Bleeding Heart Yard.

And so begins an investigation that will test the members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit to their limits, setting Arthur Bryant off on a trail that leads to Bedlam and Bletchley Park, and into the world of madness, codes and the secret of London's strangest relic.