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Bezig met laden... Steenkoud (2005)door Stuart MacBride
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Great book. I grabbed this when it was offered as a Free Fridays selection for my nook at barnes and noble. Partway through reading it, I picked up the next two books in the series for 99c each. I like the author and the main character. I also like how the story played out. It kept me guessing up until the end. ( ) GoodReads has often recommend the DS Logan McRae series to me based on my love of the John Rebus series. This police procedural is set in Aberdeen, and the timing of this book is late November and early December. it's a cold, wet and miserable night when this story opens. Logan McRae, still recovering from almost fatal stab wounds, is called out in the middle of night to investigate a body of a young boy that is found in a park. The body is very difficult to identity since it has been dead for a number of months, and has been badly mutilated, but Logan is tasked with solving this particularly gruesome murder. Things ramp up and go from bad to worse as more bodies are found. What I enjoyed about this book is the realistic characters, and the flat out Scottish humour in a truly macabre setting. What I did not enjoy was how graphic these crimes are, and Stuart McBride spares no punches in his descriptions of the depravities and gruesome details. The body count keeps climbing, and Logan McRae keeps risking life and limb to solve them. This is a compelling Scottish noir, and a promising beginning to a series. Although, I am not sure that I will continue with the series. I should mention that I listened to this book on audiobook, and Steve Worsley did a great job of narrating this book. I think I'll think about it for awhile before I decide whether or not to continue this series. El agente Logan McRae acaba de volver al trabajo después de un año de baja y las cosas no podrían irle peor: acaban de encontrar el cadáver de un niño de cuatro años, estrangulado y mutilado en el fondo de una zanja. Hay un asesino suelto en Aberdeen y los periódicos locales claman venganza. Además, Logan tiene que lidiar con su nuevo jefe, el inspector Insch, así como con la bella y glacial Isobel MacAlister, su ex novia, que también resulta ser la forense. There is no doubt that this is good. Like really good. Incredible characters, great writing, and an excellent level of tension that was maintained throughout the whole novel. But I really struggled with the nature of the crimes. They were the brutal murders of young children. The crime scene descriptions were stomach churningly grizzly and I had actual chest pains thinking about the children's final moments and the horrors perpetrated upon them after they were killed. I had to force myself to keep reading because I was compelled to see justice served. In hindsight I should have bailed in chapter one as I am not sure the balance between the crimes themselves and the investigations was quite right. I did really enjoy the characters tasked with finding the killer so that made it all somewhat more tolerable. CW: brutal murders of children with detailed descriptions of bodies and causes of injuries and death. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Stuart MacBride's Number One bestselling crime series opens with this award-winning debut. DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets. Winter in Aberdeen: murder, mayhem and terrible weather... It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Three-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch: strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. And he's only the first. There's a serial killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood. Soon the dead are piling up in the morgue almost as fast as the snow on the streets, and Logan knows time is running out. More children are going missing. More are going to die. And if Logan isn't careful, he could end up joining them. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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