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Flesh House
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Product Description
A new Logan McRae thriller from the bestselling author of Cold Granite, Dying Light and Broken Skin, set in gritty Aberdeen.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #4195 in Books
- Published on: 2009-01-05
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 608 pages
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.co.uk Review
Those who like their crime thrillers diamond hard (but shot through with macabre humour) need look no further than Stuart MacBride. As Flesh House, his latest, once again proves, he has few equals in this area, and is more than worthy of the ever-growing legion of admirers he is gleaning. His tough protagonist, Logan McRae, is once again negotiating the mean streets of Aberdeen, with violence and threat forever at his elbow. Those who have read Cold Granite, Dying Light and Broken Skin will know what to expect here -- and they’ll be aware that they're not in for a comfortable ride.
The city is in a state of fear. Some 20 years ago, the Grampian police nailed a particularly vicious serial killer known as The Flesher, a monster who had claimed victims throughout the country. But one of those frequent legal appeals which so often release dangerous criminals into the community has freed him, and when a container with human body parts appears at Aberdeen harbour, it looks like the stage is once again set for carnage on a massive scale. DS Logan McRae (along with his less experienced colleague, Chief Constable Mark Faulds from Birmingham -- who was on the original team tracking down The Flesher), finds himself in charge of one of the most ambitious manhunts city has ever seen. And then members of the original team tracking down their serial killer prey (whose real name is Ken Wiseman) begin to disappear -- and more human meat is making grisly appearances. All of this is delivered with the requisite grasp of tension and characterisation that we have come to expect from Stuart MacBride. There are those who will feel he has gone too far in Flesh House in confronting the less savoury aspects of human behaviour, but fans of uncompromising crime writing will be in their element. --Barry Forshaw
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'Stuart MacBride is the most exciting thing to happen in British crime fiction in the last ten years. Flesh House is his fourth book and the best yet' Northern Echo 'A gripping story, lashings of black humour and a hugely likeable hero' Aberdeen Press and Journal Praise for Stuart MacBride: 'Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order by a writer whose dark star is most definitely on the rise' Mark Billingham 'If you're looking for taut narrative, gut-churning incident, strong characterisation, all shot through with savagely dark humour, then look no further' Reginald Hill 'Ferocious and funny' Val McDermid 'The novel rattles along like a bolting horse and the dialogue crackles like a firework display ! DI Steel should be declared a national treasure' Andrew Taylor, Spectator 'This intelligent, exciting police procedural should make the leading writers of the genre start looking over their shoulders' Sunday Telegraph 'Grim, gritty and great fun' Daily Sport 'Riveting and gruesome' Telegraph 'Stuart MacBride goes straight for the jugular with a tight, thrilling novel' Glasgow Herald 'Gripping' Daily Mirror 'Another brilliant, riveting police procedural. I'm green with envy!' R D Wingfield 'An impressive debut ! an edge-of-your-seat page-turner' Publishers Weekly 'A gritty, roller-coaster, in-your-face thriller' Aberdeen Press and Journal 'A cracking new writer on the crime scene who hooks you from the first page and never lets you go. The action is ferocious and the pace unrelenting' Northern Echo 'Compelling reading' Telegraph 'This is Ian Rankin on Speed ! the humour is black, the violence is apalling, the language is, well, realistic, the entertainment is unflagging. I hunger for the earlier novels ' Adelaide Review
About the Author
Stuart MacBride was born in Dumbarton near Glasgow but grew up in Aberdeen. After a series of jobs including working off-shore, graphic design, voiceovers for local radio and web design he started to write fiction. His first novel, Cold Granite, was shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers' best debut novel and won the Barry Award for the best first novel. Both Cold Granite, and its follow-up, Dying Light, have made the shortlist of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Stuart won the CWA Dagger In the Library Award for a body of work at the CWA Dagger Awards 2007. Dying Light, Broken Skin and Flesh House were all top ten bestsellers. Stuart won Breakthrough Author of the Year at the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards in 2008. Stuart lives in north-east Scotland with his wife Fiona, cat Grendel, and a vegetable plot full of weeds.
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Customer Reviews
Gore blimey.
I said it in my earlier reviews of Stuart MacBride's stories that I didn't fancy living in Aberdeen. If there were any remaining doubts in my mind about such a view, this book dispels them all.
The body count is huge, the pychos on the loose seem to gravitate to Aberdeen and Logan McRae, as ever, brings some relative calm to the investigation - in his own way, of course! DI Steele seems to be assuming more of a role in MacBride's books, probably because DI Insch was always going to burst - one way or another.
As an aside, I thought the inclusion of the pseudo reprints of the local paper were an interesting addition, though I'm a little worried that I thought I'd recognized one of the murderers depicted!!
As before, this is a gripping read; a book which is more convoluted than the earlier ones (and longer, I think). I really enjoyed the development of the characters and, certainly, the author is more confident compared to the first story. Aberdeen in the summer for his next novel? Will we notice? Probably not! But I can hardly wait.
Hilarious dark humour, and gory at the same time!
He did it again!.... An excellent book, and MacBride is certainly becoming one of my favourite authors.
The book makes your stomache churn on one page, and you find yourself in fits of laughter on the next. How does he do it?
If you haven't already read 'Cold Granite' 'A Dying Light' 'Broken Skin' DO SO, they are just pure genious in book form. You love the characters from the very first book, and each book seems to top the next.
I cannot wait for more from MacBride, and I know now that the next book will be set in the Summer..... less rain... yay!
As the previous reviewer stated, not a book to be read at any dinner table :)
Oh dear
So lets set the scene. I like crime fiction and am a great fan of Ian Rankin, even more so because I used to live in Edinburgh and there's nothing greater than a chase scene when you know all the local landmarks. With a background in Aberdeen and now currently residing there how thrilled I was to find that Stuart Macbride was following a similar recipe but his books were set in Aberdeen! So I set about reading the series in order.
The first three books I enjoyed immensely, the evolution of the characters and their relationships were well described and always kept me interested. And as for the crime scenes Stuart certainly has a knack for being able to describe grimy, horrible, dark places were the most gruesome of crimes have been committed.
How disapointed I am now following a recent holiday where I managed to read the fourth book in the logan macrae series. This book seems to be totally preoccupied with trying to shock the reader. Over and over again there are long winded descriptions of tragic events that just seem to go totally over the top, and the body count...... I could hardly keep up with it, just as you get to like a character they're gone! But the ending was the most disapointing in my eyes, it seemed to me like Stuart got to the end of the writing process and couldn't really be bothered anymore. Don't get me wrong, I read the book cover to cover and will more than likely read his next one, but the only thing that really kept me going were the references to Aberdeen!
Overall not my favourite!
