title: The Memory of Blood: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
author:  Christopher Fowler 
description: [<i>The Memory of Blood</i>] breathes new life into the locked-room mystery. . . . spiced with a little screwball-comedy dialogue and a touch of the occult.<i>The Washington Post</i><br /> <br /> Great fun.<i>The Seattle Times</i><br /><br /><b>Praise for the ingenious novels featuring the Peculiar Crimes Unit</b><br /><br />[Christopher] Fowler manipulates the machinery with droll wit. . . . [Hes] a master of classical form.Marilyn Stasio, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br /><br />Fowler, like his crime-solvers, is deadpan, sly, and always unexpectedly inventive.<i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br /><i></i><br />Bryant and May are hilarious.<i> Grumpy Old Men </i>does<i> CSI</i> with a twist of Dickens!<i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Karen Marie Moning<br /><br />Eclectic, eccentric and endlessly entertaining books.<i>The Seattle Times</i><br /><br />Fowler reinvents and reinvigorates the traditional police procedural.<i>The Boston Globe</i><br /><br />Fowler has few peers when it comes to constructing ingenious . . . plots.<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)<br /><br />One of the most delightful series around.<i>Library Journa</i>l<br /><br />Brilliant.<i>The Denver Post</i><br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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  _Also by E. S. Thomson_
  
  
  Beloved Poison
  
  
  Dark Asylum
  
  
  The Blood
  
  
  
  
  
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  CONSTABLE
  
  
  First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Constable
  
  
  Copyright © E. S. Thomson, 2019
  
  
  The moral right of the author has been asserted.
  
  
  _All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in
  the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living
  or dead, is purely coincidental_.
  
  
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  is available from the British Library.
  
  
  ISBN: 978-