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Flesh House | 
 enlarge | Author: Stuart Macbride
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 90
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.7
ISBN: 0007244541
EAN: 9780007244546
ASIN: 0007244541
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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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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 Stunning!! July 2, 2008
Mr. Steven T. Orchard
This was a real can't put down page turner. Paul Johnston's Quint Dalrymple, Jack Kerley's Carson Ryder and John Connolly's Charlie Parker books are all fantastic but you can't help liking the down at heeel main character, Logan McRae, even though you don't really know what he looks like etc. With this book, even when you can see what's coming, it hits you harder than you expect.
The only thing I didn't like about this book is the final five pages. Not gonna spoil it for anyone. Can't wait for the next book from a cracking writer who, despite the intensity of the narrative, still finds time to make the reader laugh with a dark wit.
I awarded five stars because I was enthralled, despite the ending.
Bloody marvellous June 30, 2008
Oscar and Sam
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am only half way through this book (having gleefully received a shiny new hardback copy from Amazon 2 days ago) and am loving every line of it. I have read all previous SM books and he is by far my favorite 'writer'. If it wasn't for being in full time employment I would have finished it by now - unputdownable. May Logan, Steel, Insch and Stuart Macbride long continue their production of fabulously gory and witty works! Hurrah!!!
 More Flesh to the MacRae Character June 25, 2008
D. M. Bennett (Aberdeen, Scotland)
The latest in the series focusing on Aberdeen detective DS Logan MacRae. This book adds to our knowledge of the main characters through their involvement of the most gruesome case to date. The detail surrounding cannabalsim in Aberdeen is truly disturbing and will make anyone who read it avoid butchers and the cash and carry for a few weeks after.
Not for the faint-hearted June 25, 2008
Jack Fletcher (Manchester, England)
This is a good, well-written and interesting book.
However, it is not as good as his previous efforts, mainly because there is too much emphasis on the personalities of two of the main characters. For example, both the inspectors are not as most readers would see as average police officers. The female is outrageously butch and the other a bad-tempered fat slob. It seems very unlikely you could find two such officers in the same police station.
In fact the whole book, at least to me, is over-the-top, albeit an enjoyable and easy read.
grimly good! June 25, 2008
D. Cameron (England)
Another excellent book in the DS Logan series. i just love the characters (Logan, Steele, Insch). The book is really one of two halves; the first is gruesome but has a lot of character development and black humour - however the second half of the book is less amusing and quite harrowing in parts - difficult to read but difficult not to! i would have given it five stars but i do feel that some of the scenarios were rather offputtingly gory - reading it was like watching the tv betweeen your fingers, you had to take a deep breath before you could enter the world that had been conjured up - but a darn good read all the same!
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