{"product_id":"full-dark-house-9780553803877","title":"Full Dark House","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdgy  suspenseful  and darkly comic  here is the first novel in a riveting new mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Departments Peculiar Crimes Unit. In Full Dark House  Christopher Fowler tells the story of both their first and last caseand how along the way the unlikely pair of crime fighters changed the face of detection.  A present-day bombing rips through London and claims the life of eighty-year-old detective Arthur Bryant. For his partner John May  it means the end of a partnership that lasted over half-a-century and an eerie echo back to the Blitz of World War II when they first met. Desperately searching for clues to the killers identity  May finds his old friends notes of their very first case and becomes convinced that the past has returned...with a killing vengeance.  It begins when a dancer in a risque new production of Orpheus in Hell is found without her feet. Suddenly  the young detectives are plunged in a bizarre gothic mystery that will push them to their limitsand beyond. For in a city shaken by war  a faceless killer is stalking Londons theaters  creating his own kind of sinister drama. And it will take Arthur Bryants unorthodox techniques and John Mays dogged police work to catch a criminal whose ability to escape detection seems almost supernatural--a murderer who even decades later seems to have claimed the life of one of them...and is ready to claim the other.  Filled with startling twists  unforgettable characters  and a mystery that will keep you guessing  Full Dark House is a witty  heartbreaking  and all-too-human thriller about the hunt for an inhuman killer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279779127349,"sku":"ByrdShop_0553803875","price":28.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780553803877.jpg?v=1780609995","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/full-dark-house-9780553803877","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}