Bryant & May - Strange Tide

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by CHRISTOP FOWLER | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 085750309X Global Overview for this book
Registered by Strude of Burnaby, British Columbia Canada on 1/6/2014
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Journal Entry 1 by Strude from Burnaby, British Columbia Canada on Wednesday, August 23, 2017
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Journal Entry 2 by wingAnonymousFinderwing on Wednesday, August 23, 2017
This is #13 in the Bryant & May series and the characters are pretty well set, even Crippen the police unit's cat and the two Daves who seem to be permanently working on the building when they aren't seconded to covering the phones - which must breach some regulations I'm sure. We have a new "enemy", Barbara Biddle from internal investigations who is investigating the unit's procedures on behalf of the Missing Link.
The first thing that people arriving in London try to do is to become invisible. You have to blend into the surroundings, fit in, appear as if you've been there all your life. Chris Fowler comments that once people have settled into London even their speech patterns become indistinguishable from born Londoners. I notice that Bryant, however, detects Arabic roots in Ali's speech.
Ali Bensaud, who has gone through hell in a handcart to arrive in London where everything will be wonderful, lost his life long friend by drowning when the overloaded boat they were in failed and sank so he has a somewhat negative view of life. He realises that people in London are more concerned about losing time than money so it is relatively easy to scam them, especially tourists. He meets up with a girl with an incredible business sense and the two form a partnership, starting with club acts and going on to counseling sessions. Once Lynsey Dalladay is found drowned in the Thames, chained to a staple in the tidal area, he becomes a person of interest to our unit. (By the way, wasn't Virginia Wolfe's story about a lady called Mrs. Dalladay?)
There is no point in commenting on plot any further because it would be a string of spoilers, but one thing is certain, although everything runs about all over the place as usual, the connections between people and events is a little easier in this one. Either that or I'm beginning to understand Mr. Fowler's convoluted mind.
As usual, too, we have all sorts of comments on old tales about the Thames, both real and imagined, we run across Boadicea (Latin) or Boudicca (closer to Icenic), Dalladay dies where children played on an artificial beach accessed by the ladders taken from a sunken ship, and Bryant has a strange meeting with Charles Dickens.
For anyone who knows anything about London, or likes it, this series just feeds the desire to be there.

Journal Entry 3 by Strude at Waves Coffee - Columbia St in New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Wednesday, August 23, 2017

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