2008-05-10 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.