Kind of a brutal ending and some of the descriptions seemed slightly over the top but I still enjoyed it a lot. I am thankful for another Scotish mystery writer that I really enjoy. ( )

Un violador anda suelto por las frías calles de granito, dejando tras de sí una estela de mujeres marcadas, torturadas. Sin embargo, este no será el caso del inspector Logan McRae; él tratará de resolver cuál es el motivo por el que se ha abandonado el cadáver no identificado de un hombre, delante del hospital de Aberdeen.
El rastro que ha dejado la muerte de este individuo lo conducirá por las oscuras sendas de la pornografía. Parece ser que se ha desarrollado en la ciudad toda una comunidad bondage que disfruta del dolor y la brutal violencia que se puede imponer a otros. Logan no tendrá más remedio que aventurarse por el crepúsculo que suponen las librerías para adultos, las fábricas de películas porno y sus estrellas, los sádicos y los masoquistas. Lugares y personas que pocas veces resultan ser lo que parecen.
Cuando la policía finalmente coge al violador de la Ciudad de Granito las celebraciones son efímeras. Los medios de comunicación, sus grandes seguidores y el aturdido tribunal fuerzan al cuerpo de policía a dejar ir al sospechoso. Pese a tenerlo bajo vigilancia, los ataques a mujeres no cesan. ¿Será realmente este el asesino? Si es así, ¿podrán atraparlo? Jackie Watson, el ordenador que tiene por novia, mantendrá hasta el final su convicción de que la estrella de Aberdeen es el culpable y hará todo cuanto esté en su mano para demostrarlo. Este será sin duda el mayor infierno para nuestro inspector.

This is an ok Police procedural set in Aberdeen.
Logan Macrae and his team are investigating a series of Rapes that are also happening in Dundee. They believe a young up and coming Aberdeen football player is responsible.
They are also investigating the death of a man who was found with internal wounds. He worked as a local Pornstar.
Another case is the disappearance of an 8 year old boy who attacked and killed an old man.

Macrae is under pressure he is dealing with lots of internal bureaucracy. He and his team manage to solve the cases. WPC Jackie Watson who is Logan's girlfriend really has it in for the Aberdeen playing suspected rapist.
She even gives him a proper kicking.

Good book with some good characters. ( )

Yet another adventure of Logan McRae and his gang, solving and causing problems as usual. There's a little bit of Keystone cops in the stories, and crimes seem to be solved as much by luck as anything else, although Logan's intuition and perseverance help guide the luck in the right direction most of them time. And his luck, while not always great, does manage to keep him from being fired or suspended now and then.

Poor Logan is always caught between Inspectors Insch and Steel, who are often competing with each other. They're both bosses from hell, although I'll admit that I'm getting to like DI Steel for her entertainment value. She's a real character, hard to work for I'm sure, but I think she's honest and seems to say what she thinks without mincing words. And she doesn't seem to hold a grudge too long. Insch, on the other hand, seems to always have a grudge about something, and seems to be in danger of a massive stroke at most times. He's so overweight he's given up on trying to lose any, as his doctor tells him he needs to lose about half his weight.

One thing I don't really like about these books is the fact that there seems to be several unrelated crimes happening at the same time (unless I'm missing the relationship in the confusion). Most books seem to have one crime, and we can usually count on everything being somehow related. Having several keeps the reader a little off-balance; maybe that's the point.

I've been consuming the audiobook versions of this, which I like. The Scottish accent does a lot to set the mood and make it seem real. ( )

Definitely enjoy these books featuring DS Logan McRae, a decent cop with some good instincts -- but some bad ones too. I wonder if he will ever get promoted; meanwhile, in all the novels I have read thus far, he keeps getting close to getting fired... and yet all the cases magically come together in the end. Always a good read -- and fun to read the odd accents. ( )