Books by Stuart MacBride
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review 1: Stuart MacBride is one of my favourite author's ... as is the norm for his book's the violence come's thick, fast & unflinching, the story is gritty with certain point's prompting a 'Nooooo' from the reader it's dripping with black humour and the character's are either broken, mo...
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review 1: Another fantastic McRae thriller...lots of dark twisted humour and lots of gore. A slightly slower pace to the first half as the kidnapping of Britain's next big thing happens, but the second half is a real roller coaster, with drama happening which ever way you look. I got a lit...
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review 1: Another fast-moving police thriller from MacBride. He makes it seem as though Scotland is full of serial killers, pedophiles, and sadistic murderers.Detective Constable Ash Henderson is the "baddest" bad boy cop I've ever come across, but as the reader, you may hope he gets away ...
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review 1: Love the Logan McRae books and all the inept characters who reside therein. Love the ringtones (DS Rennie - "If I only had a brain"). Love the way they all have overlapping conversations with each other but never listen to what the other is saying. Love the way Logan keeps gettin...
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review 1: Fantastic trip into the Aberdonian underworld once again. I think this is such a good series...such humour and dark plots. Having lived in Aberdeen, a lot of the in jokes are cracking and you get a real sense of whats going on. The ending felt a little rushed, with a few things u...
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review 1: The fact that i had to double check the name of this book--twice--before writing a review pretty much sums it up. Not great--although it improved as it went on--not bad, just...meh. I will say that I didn't notice it was the second in a series until I had finished the book, and ...
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review 1: So disappointed, loved the earlier books but this seems written to shock it is macabre, ghoulish and gruesome. It is a shame because the character of Logan McRae was an inspirational creation but loses credibility in this book. The author is able to inject humour into the most di...
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review 1: This was the only book of the Logan McRae I hadn’t read and is now the only one I have in a paper copy (the rest being on the iPad) but after doing a Masterclass with the author I felt I needed a signed copy. The Master class was on research for crime fiction, a topic he had been...
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review 1: Oodles of violence, tons of gougings, beheadings, mutilations, boiled hearts, burnings, eviscerations. Lobotomies, necrophilia, brain removals, child murders. Hardly any character comes through this without Tom and Jerry levels of violence inflicted on them. I didn't find this sh...
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review 1: I love this writer so much and one reason why is because his books are so different from the usual police procedurals. I'm a huge fan of his Logan MacRae series and this new series promises to be just as good, if a million miles away. DC Ash Henderson is totally unique in police ...
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review 1: Not my favourite DS Logan book I'm afraid. As with all in this series so far, the subject matter is bleak and depressing, not helped by the seasonal wintry weather in Aberdeen, but I can put up with that. I think this time, I found the plot quite confusing. There were lots of li...
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review 1: CLOSE TO THE BONE. (2013). Stuart Macbride. ***.This is only the second book by this author I’ve read, the other being the first in this series featuring his police officer protagonist Logan McRae. This is the eighth in the series. What becomes immediately apparent is that t...
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review 1: This was an excellent crime novel. I loved almost everything about it from the darkly humorous writing style to the characters and the setting, all elements which are well balanced and interesting. The plot is original and intricate enough to keep the reader guessing, and is a...
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review 1: Ein abgründiger neuer Fall für Detective Logan McRae. Der erste Tote wird mit einem brennenden Reifen um den Hals gefunden, es gibt außerdem Anzeichen einer Strangulierung sowie diverse Stichwunden. Wurde er womöglich das Opfer rivalisierender Drogenbanden? Zur gleichen Zeit hint...
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review 1: Eight years ago, a serial killer made Aberdeen a terrified city. He kidnapped couples from their houses, leaving behind copious amounts of blood, then took the couples to another location where he killed them and butchered the bodies. 'The Flesher' was captured and put in jail,...
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review 1: Stage 3 of my re-read of Stuart MacBride and though I remembered a lot of the plot of Flesh House from my reading at the time of initial publication, I had forgotten just how gory and grisly it is. Definitely not for the easily upset and definitely in the mould of Stephen King an...
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review 1: There is already a comprehensive synopsis available on this book. The author has again delivered an intricate and convoluted story involving The Flesher. As with previous books there are several investigations running concurrently for DI McRae and the other officers at Grampion P...
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review 1: I have previously read some of the Logan McRae books and I had forgotten just how much I enjoyed this author's writing. The first thing you notice is that this is not set in Aberdeen, but takes place in the US. There is still the graphic content, and the patches of dry humour lac...
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review 1: It's not often I'll write a bad review, but I was really disappointed with this and I can't actually think of much good to say!I liked the idea, with all the stories interlinking, and they were well written, but if anything I found them a bit too short, and not particularly e...