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Knochensplitter (2012)

by Stuart MacBride(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Manhattan

series

Logan McRae

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 given and was unimpressed by: he answered it with typical Scottish dour tongue in cheek in one sentence: talk to a cop. But then (after a cop in the audience looked a little taken aback) he proceeded to fill three hours with lots of information and exercises so we got our money worth! I also grew to appreciate the Logan McRae even more. Firstly, I hadn’t noticed but in the last three the author has used NO dialogue tags. Promptly reedited my book of genius and though I still have some, was ama... morezed at how many I could get rid of. I have to say I find it a little hard work at times- much of the book is told in conversation and MacBride doesn’t mince his words when saying he’s only interested in improving his writing and writing for an intelligent audience. The second thing about having met him is I realised how much humour I was missing. Logan is a train wreck and if something bad can happen to him (or in this case his girlfriend) it probably will. Low lifes mix in with well, other low lifes in the guise of reality TV and Logan is up to his armpits in shit. An intelligent and drolly amusing cop yarn. God knows what Aberdeen police are still talking to the author….
review 2: Few writers can mix brutality and belly laughs quite like Scottish author MacBride, whose Aberdeen-set thrillers starring DS Logan McRae can have you cringing one page, chuckling the next. McRae (more determined everyman than supercop) and his colourful colleagues and superiors are under intense media and public pressure due to the high-profile kidnapping of a mother-daughter duo, reality TV show singing sensations. An entertaining page-turner filled with plenty of wisecracks, vitality, and personal and professional conundrums. less

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