A Dark So Deadly - Hardcover

from adpaton

Stuart MacBride is best known for his police procedurals featuring Detective Sergeant Logan McRae of 'Granite City - Aberdeen - but A Dark So Deadly is one of his few standalone thrillers. And what a thriller it is! At over 600 pages this book is no lightweight: one senses both the writer - and h...

from EadieB

I was very interested in reading this standalone from Stuart MacBride but was slightly disappointed when the idea for The Misfit Mob seemed to be taken from MacBride's Logan McRae series. The Misfit Mob is described as where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can't get rid of, but wants to: th...

from runner56

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 au...

from quiBee

Gripping serial killer mystery that gets thrown to a group of also-rans in the police force. The main hero is under a cloud because of past actions (or suspected past actions) and his life keeps going downhill. This is a very twisted, darkly humorous serial killer mystery. You could see the final...

from Robert3167

This is a stand alone novel that does have similarities with the Logan McRae series. An embittered detective accused of at best incompetence or at worst corruption which leads to a notorious criminal escaping a murder conviction. The detective, DC Callum MacGregor, is placed into a division of mi...