WILD CHAMBER, by Christopher Fowler, narrated by Tim Goodman

Mystery/Thriller -- 3 1/2 stars
Audiobook Narration -- 5 stars


Bryant and May - Book 14
Book:  A woman takes her dog for a morning walk in a private, locked park, and is later found strangled within the park's confines.  The dog is nowhere to be found.  How did the killer get in?  And how did he get out again? Then another women is killed in a different London park.  With no connection, Bryant and May flounder. The powers that be decide the answer is to close London's parks--which makes the Peculiar Crimes Unit extremely unpopular.  Will it mean the unit's demise? -----  These books have always used Bryant's encyclopedic knowledge of arcane London to solve the case.  This time, Mr. Fowler has Bryant hallucinating historical figures; and it doesn't work.  Bryant's "aha" moment needs his books and his cast of oddly wonderful acquaintances.  The visions seem like a cheap trick.  The story is, like the other Bryant and May books, wonderfully convoluted, but the solution seems like cheating somehow.

Narration:  Tim Goodman is once again perfection.  Nothing else needs to be said.