It's a crime tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit: a controversial
artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous
installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--but this time they
do have an eyewitness. A twelve-year-old claims the killer was a
cape-clad highwayman atop a black stallion. Whoever the killer really
is, he seems intent on killing off enough minor celebrities to become
one himself. As "Highwayman Fever" grips London, Bryant and May, along
with the newest member of the Unit, May's agoraphobic granddaughter,
April, find themselves sorting out a case involving artistic rivalries,
sleazy sex affairs, the Knights Templars, feuding street gangs, and a
decades-old crime spree that split up their partnership once before--and
threatens to end it again...with murder**.
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