Jerry Gates is a receptionist at the Savoy Hotel. When one of her guests expires in the lobby, Jerry is drawn into a dark underside of London she never knew existed - a world of secret paintings, rising corpses, exploding commuters, mysterious guilds, and mechanical murder devices. Aiding decrepit detectives Bryant and May, Jerry meets an appalling London family steeped in generations of blackmail and finds herself up against an ingenious, unstoppable evil that threatens the entire city. As the light's start going out all over London, Jerry remembers how scared she is of the dark...
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Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name Christopher Fowler was an English novelist living in London. His books contain elements of black comedy, anxiety and social satire. As well as novels, he wrote short stories, scripts, press articles and reviews. He lived in King's Cross, on the Battlebridge Basin, and chose London as the backdrop of many of his stories because any one of the events in its two-thousand-year history can provide inspiration. In 1998 he was the recipient of the BFS Best Short Story of the Year, for 'Wageslaves'. Then, in 2004, The Water Room was nominated for the CWA People's Choice Award, Full Dark House won the BFS August Derleth Novel of The Year Award 2004 and 'American Waitress' won the BFS Best Short Story of the Year 2004. The novella 'Breathe' won BFS Best Novella 2005.
