by Stuart MacBride
Set in a fictional Scottish town, this police procedural novel is about a serial killer on the loose and a bunch of misfit policemen are on his trail. The case shows the seedier side of Scotland's poor and disaffected and the novel has scenes of many types of abuse. The main character, Callum McGreg...
Give me "Fifteen minutes, Twenty tops" and I'll tell you about this brilliant brilliant crime novel.If Carlsberg did Crime fiction...Anyway, probably one of the best I've read in the genre and certainly one of Mr MacBride's best (if not the) Review to follow.
Apparently I'm expected to show up at work on a regular basis.....huh. Weird. It's been crazy lately & I'm really behind on reviews. So my weekend project is throwing together some random thoughts for the last 3-4 books I've read, including this one. Try to contain your excitement. ...
I have come to expect from Stuart MacBride a certain use of language, a certain Celtic/Scottish razor-sharp banter and a brutal realism in the unfolding of the story...with that in mind A Dark So Deadly does not disappoint. The setting is the fictional town of Oldcastle (used previously by the autho...
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