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Just finished Christopher Fowler's latest PCU mystery "The Memory of Blood" - featuring the 2 oldest detectives in Britain. As in earlier works, this book delights in the arcana of a British tradition - this time Punch & Judy (and the Grand Guignol). But even though I am a great fan of the Peculiar Crimes Unit, this entry disappointed me. Rather than dwelling on the wondrous cast of wacky eccentric characters of the PCU, it was a very superficial work - with many characters getting only a named "walk on" appearance - and very little internal conflict with authority figures. Quite disappointing. It reads like a quickly completed rough draft that was not "fleshed out" before publication. Sigh.
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