A teenage girl is missing in Scotland's fourth city. Her godfather is a known criminal and her mother is hiding a dark secret. For Private Investigator J. McNee, what starts as a favour for a friend soon becomes a nightmare as he races to find Mary Furst before it's too late. The Good Son launced the career of Russel D. McLean, introducing McNee to crime readers. McLean and McNee are back with another slab of Scottish noir at its best.
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Scottish crime fiction is entering a new era and Russel McLean is in the vanguard. --Tony Black
Russel D McLean hasn't only made the British PI credible, he's updated and honed the sub-genre to a razor-sharp edge... tight, sleek and controlled, with an emotional resonance that is utterly refreshing. --Ray Banks
Russel D McLean hasn't only made the British PI credible, he's updated and honed the sub-genre to a razor-sharp edge... tight, sleek and controlled, with an emotional resonance that is utterly refreshing. --Ray Banks
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The Lost Sister is Russel D. McLean's second book. He writes for Crime Scene Scotland, The Big Thrill and Do Some Damage. He lives in Dundee. The third novel featuring J. McNee, Father Confessor, appears in 2012.
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By D. Moore
Format:Paperback
Hard-boiled Dundee PI McNee is called upon to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl. He's reluctant, since the girl is the god-daughter of David Burns - someone that McNee is not particularly fond of, and that's putting it lightly. McNee lets himself be beguiled by his dislike of Burns - as well as his desire to right some wrongs - as he investigates the secrets and lies that lead him to become more and more emotionally involved in the case. Brutal, chilling, pacy and dramatic, THE LOST SISTER is superb - but very sad. I felt melancholic from about half way through and burst into tears at the end. McNee is an excellent character - tough as nails on the outside, but much softer on the inside - something he does his best to hide. He is uncompromising about right and wrong, his moral compass is firmly set, and his prickly exterior hides a troubled and isolated person who just can't get close to people. You don't know whether to hug him or punch him. Russel McLean spins a fine and expertly told tale.
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Met the Author in local Dundee book store when home for Christmas ... Really nice guy who, as you would imagine, is passionate about his subject. Borrowed his first book, The Good Son, from my Mum and enjoyed it, so decided to order this. There is a lot of (unnecessary?) bad language, but nice short chapters and a great story. The writing is excellent, I look forward to reading Russel's next book. Prompt delivery.
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P.I. J. McNee doesn't half get beaten up, kicked, punched, kicked again...but somehow manages to stagger his way through McLean's second tale set in the mean streets of Dundee, Scotland's hidden and strange secret city.
Crime fans will be very familiar with MacBride's Aberdeen, McIlvanney's Glasgow or Rankin's Edinburgh; but who would ever have thought of choosing Dundee as a setting for their novel? A city whose glory days are gone, whose future looks bleak?
McLean has grasped the persona of Dundee; the comic home of Desperate Dan of The Dandy fame, famous for marmalade and The Sunday Post, and brings to life characters who live out their lives in the grey and grim streets of a city that teeters on the brink of collapse whilst managing to retain a generous underbelly of self mocking humour.
McNee, a former police officer, has lost all sense of direction in his life after the death of his girlfriend in a car crash. A P.I's life in Dundee is certainly not glamorous and while still nursing the after effects of a serious injury, McNee is forced to face his enemies and his personal beliefs in The Lost Sister.
The story McLean hooks the reader into so effortlessly surrounds a missing teenager. Nothing especially interesting had happened; when her mother came home from the shop her daughter was gone. Surely a case of a family argument and the teenager taking off to her friend's house? But the police are trying to keep the disappearance under wraps which makes the journalist who involved McNee suspicious. Very soon McLean plants his first bombshell; the missing girl has a surprising uncle and godfather; David Burns, the local hero in some people's eyes, who wants to help rejuvenate the city; but to others, especially McNee, the local Mr. Big who is 'untochable. Except he's knuckle deep in drug money, extortion rackets, underground deals, blackmail. You name it, he's behind it.'
McLean takes the reader on a series of twists and turns, bewildering not only the reader but McNee himself. If you are a Tartan Noir fan then you will not be disappointed with The Lost Sister. If you are a noir fan living in the depths of Louisiana or Chicago and you know nothing of the world that McNee inhabits, you will be in for a rare treat. Scotland lends itself well to the noir tradition but Dundee basks and wallows in the bare knuckles and concrete landings of McLean's superb novel.
Crime fans will be very familiar with MacBride's Aberdeen, McIlvanney's Glasgow or Rankin's Edinburgh; but who would ever have thought of choosing Dundee as a setting for their novel? A city whose glory days are gone, whose future looks bleak?
McLean has grasped the persona of Dundee; the comic home of Desperate Dan of The Dandy fame, famous for marmalade and The Sunday Post, and brings to life characters who live out their lives in the grey and grim streets of a city that teeters on the brink of collapse whilst managing to retain a generous underbelly of self mocking humour.
McNee, a former police officer, has lost all sense of direction in his life after the death of his girlfriend in a car crash. A P.I's life in Dundee is certainly not glamorous and while still nursing the after effects of a serious injury, McNee is forced to face his enemies and his personal beliefs in The Lost Sister.
The story McLean hooks the reader into so effortlessly surrounds a missing teenager. Nothing especially interesting had happened; when her mother came home from the shop her daughter was gone. Surely a case of a family argument and the teenager taking off to her friend's house? But the police are trying to keep the disappearance under wraps which makes the journalist who involved McNee suspicious. Very soon McLean plants his first bombshell; the missing girl has a surprising uncle and godfather; David Burns, the local hero in some people's eyes, who wants to help rejuvenate the city; but to others, especially McNee, the local Mr. Big who is 'untochable. Except he's knuckle deep in drug money, extortion rackets, underground deals, blackmail. You name it, he's behind it.'
McLean takes the reader on a series of twists and turns, bewildering not only the reader but McNee himself. If you are a Tartan Noir fan then you will not be disappointed with The Lost Sister. If you are a noir fan living in the depths of Louisiana or Chicago and you know nothing of the world that McNee inhabits, you will be in for a rare treat. Scotland lends itself well to the noir tradition but Dundee basks and wallows in the bare knuckles and concrete landings of McLean's superb novel.
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