If you like thrillers and if you like them to be set in Scotland this is a book you must read.
These days it's not often I purposely slow down reading a book because I don't want it to end, but Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride is one exception. A few years ago I read his novel Cold Granite and that was my introduction to his writing.
Set again in Aberdeen, Broken Skin again involves DS Logan MacRae along with other brilliantly engaging characters, a gritty sense of place and MacBride's trademark gallows humour which would make the most miserable of us smile.
'There's a rapist prowling Aberdeen's cold granite streets, leaving a string of tortured women behind. But while DS Logan MacRae's girlfriend is out acting as bait, he's dealing with the blood-drenched body of an unidentified male, dumped outside A & E.
When a stash of explicit films turn up, all featuring the victim, it looks as if someone in the local bondage community has developed a taste for violent death and Logan gets dragged into the twilight world of pornographers, sex-shops and S & M."
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You find time to read novels? Such energy and ability!
I usually just read in bed OR, but I've had plenty time the past few days to finish this book due to the horrendous downpours.
subrosa,
I like the female inspector in his books. Sounds like my kinda gal.
Gosh, you read some pretty racy stuff, sr!
SR,
I will give them a try next time I'm up! In a month or so!
Bonnie day here but feeling land locked!
CD
Says a lot about you.
Our date is off!
Ah Brownlie, she tries to give up smoking in this one. Can you imagine the humour?
I may be a pensioner Vronsky but I'm no' deid yet ;)
Morning CD, rather pleasant here too. Haven't you got a wee pool to put in the garden or better still, can't someone paint a few murals on your office walls? You know, lots of horizon, sky and sea.
Oh Billy and I was so looking forward to it too. Suppose I'll just have to put my American made flogger back in the wardrobe for a while then ;)
It's a great book, and he's got a new one out too. Great stories and you know all the places too. Fantastic. Strong language, but let's be honest that's probably the way it really is.
Aye he's got a superb style tris. The language, as you say, is just part of life as you say. I don't mind strong language is that type of situation, when I do mind it is when the likes of Kellman use it for no reason whatsoever.
New book? Must get up to the library...
Have you tried Christopher Brookmyre Subrosa? He's my favourite author in that genre.
subrosa,
I've read it so I don't have to imagine it - I'm a doer not a dreamer - hee hee!
WV is wataveri - you can finish the sentence yourself.
Yoohoo wataveri interesting man you are Brownlie. Did you enjoy it though?
Yes, always do - thanks again!
Love his books especially the fact they are set in Aberdeen which means you feel so involved as you imagine exactly where he is and what it looks like.
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