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'Hard-hitting prose with a bone-dry humour and characters you can genuinely believe in, Stuart MacBride's Logan McRae series of novels are a real treat.' --Simon Kernick
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The new Logan McRae thriller set in gritty Aberdeen, from the bestselling author of Cold Granite and Flesh House. It's summer in the Granite City, but even the sunshine can't improve the mood at Grampian Police Headquarters. Aberdeen's growing Polish community is under attack from a serial offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered on building sites -- eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is assigned to the investigation, codenamed Operation Oedipus, but with the victims too scared to talk, it's going nowhere fast. When the next victim turns out to be not a newly arrived eastern european, but Simon McLeod, owner of the Turf n' Track bookies, Logan suddenly finds himself caught up in a world of drug wars, prostitution rings and gun-running courtesy of Aberdeen's oldest and most vicious crime lord.
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37 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Jumping the shark?,
By bloodsimple (nottingham, uk) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blind Eye (Hardcover)
I enjoyed Macbride's previous novels, but for me this is a disorganised mess that got perilously close to `jumping the shark' (for those unfamiliar with the term, it means an outrageous plot sequence that removes all credibility from subsequent offerings). Macbride needs to reign himself in, and get back to the basics that were so good in earlier novels.
The character of DI Steel, and her relationship with Logan, is turning into a bad comedy; it is devoid of wit, it stretches credence beyond endurance, and it is increasingly getting in the way of what should be the fundamentals of a police procedural. Logan too, in his indestructibility and his endless drinking, is becoming a cartoon character and a cipher of the `hard-drinking Scottish copper'. It's been done, and done many times. Move Logan towards a character we can believe in. While parts of this storyline were done very well, with some genuine menace, too much of the plot became garbled, and seemed secondary in the author's thinking. The episode in Poland was too formulaic to be credible; plot changes relied on reaches of logic that seemed forced and artificial; the `bent copper' angle was well-developed but then ruined by a trite and lame finish; the overall ending of the book was messy and smacked of running out of ideas. Macbride has shown that he can write really excellent crime novels; it's a shame he hasn't done so here. I know Macbride routinely laughs at people who post Amazon reviews of his work. Fine. But for this reader (and fan) he is moving away from what made his books so good; the sense of place, a credible central character, and a decent plot set in the real world. Graham Hurley has shown how it is possible to develop the lives of central characters without becoming cartoonish or clichéd; Macbride needs to do the same with the next book.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Blind Eye - Stuart MacBride,
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This review is from: Blind Eye (Hardcover)
I've been counting down the days to the release of the next book in the DS Logan McRae series and it's been worth it. Dark, gritty, fantastic characterisation with humour that despite the horrors going on make you laugh out loud.
Once again this is fast paced but the plot flows so smoothly and is so well written that MacBride makes it all seem so effortless. Set in the Summer this time, the plot centres around members of the Polish community coming under attack, with their eyes being gouged out and sockets burnt. Then there is a surprise when a similar attack is carried out on a victim. (Any more would be a spoiler). On top of this there are goings on with the crime lords in Aberdeen involving guns and prostitution. Logan gets a short stay in Poland with devastating results and cracks appear as he starts to feel the effects of all he suffers both in Blind Eye and the Flesher case (which has turned him into a vegetarian). There are lots of familiar faces in Blind Eye- I did miss Colin Miller but DI Steel made up for that!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Starts out really funny, then fades,
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This review is from: Blind Eye (Paperback)
I found myself sucked in early by some laugh-out-loud funny dialogue and descriptions in 'Blind Eye'. Mr McBride seemed to have abandoned the idea of a attempting to pen a traditional thriller to write a pure comic novel - wildly scatological and profane - around a parody of the serial killer genre. I thought it was really good and - as I haven't followed the series with any diligence - was less bothered than other reviewers appear to be about the way characters who might have become favourites in previous, slightly more serious, books became mere comedic devices.
But, a few hundred pages in, the laughs stop coming and the plodding, deeply unconvincing 'plot' starts to take over. The porn version of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' (don't ask) was the low point, about as amusing as a car accident involving children. Then the central protagonist goes to Poland and interest and humour completely disappear. Unfortunately, when the laughter stops, you are left with a very average detective yarn, which is a real pity. Early doors, this was really good. Three stars rather than anything worse as the first part is genuinely fresh and engaging.
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