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Title: Flesh House (Logan McRae)
ISBN: 0312382634
Author:
Stuart MacBride
Publicate Date: 2008-10-14
Publish: 2008-10-14
List Price: $24.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Scary as a horror movie
This is one book that grabs you by the throat and won't let you go. Not to mention that it has many more twists and turns than the average amusement ride.
Over twenty years ago, the serial killer called the Flesher stalked and killed in Scotland. The police thought they caught the man, and Insch, who was in charge of the case, was deeply upset that never find the evidence to pin all the killings on Wiseman.
Now Wiseman is out of jail and once again the bodies begin to pile up. Worse, much worse, body parts appear in butcher shops.
The story line is as terrifying as it gets, and the number of the murdered is truly astonishing.
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2: vegetables anyone?
I was going to say that I smell a movie deal for this book but it could just be the stench of rotting meat that I've been imagining while reading this book. The degree to which this book will promote vegetarianism is as of yet untold but I believe it will be significant and as a vegan, I appreciate the effort. I enjoyed the humorous dialogue and the fact that the innocent get nailed and the guilty get dinner...what a refreshing change from Rankin, James and George.
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3: exciting Scottish police procedural
In Aberdeen, Scotland, the remains of humans are found in a shipping crate and a butcher shop. The police brass immediately hone in on Kenneth "the Flesher" Wiseman who two decades ago got away with brutal murders on a legal technicality. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae goes to bring in the Flesher for questioning and perhaps a bit more.
Having been part of the mishandled investigation twenty years ago, Detective Inspector David Insch plans to insure this time the Flesher does not get away with homicide even if he bends the law. As more body parts appear around the terrorized city, McRae concludes the police are investigating the wrong man, but he remains clueless as to who the brutal serial killer is and there is pressure on him is to keep digging into the Flesher.
FLESH HOUSE needs to carry a warning label: "do not read on a full stomach" as Stuart MacBride gets ultra gory with this exciting Scottish police procedural. McCrae makes the tale in his fourth investigation (see BLOODSHOT, DYING LIGHT and COLD GRANITE) as he bucks the brass seeking the culprit elsewhere. While doing so his amusing cynical commentary contrasts nicely to the bloody scenes and the pomposity of his superiors. Not for everyone, this is a vivid action packed thriller that colors Aberdeen red.
Harriet Klausner
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4: Not John Harvey, yet..
I lucked onto the first DS Logan MacRae book at the public library and have preordered them all since from Amazon. The quirky crew at Grampian police were a real change of pace, and the dialog between the characters is consistently terrific. The players themselves make the books worth reading, particularly DI Roberta Steele. This last installment is no different, but it's the story, particularly the conclusion (or lack thereof), that disappoints. Well written, great characters and dialog, but a nearly 500 page "shaggy dog story".
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5: Loved it/hated it, but couldn't stop reading it.
First Sentence: `No, you listen to me: if my six year old son isn't back here in ten minutes I'm going to come round there and rip you a new arsehole, are we clear?'
Twenty years ago, there was a serial killer knows as "The Flesher" who was purported to kill people and eat them.
Now, seven years after the killer has been released from prison, human meat has been found in a local butcher shop and DS Logan McRae are trying to track down a serial killer dressed in a butcher's apron wearing a Margaret Thatcher mask.
I had a love/hate relationship with this book. Be aware that murders are very graphic and gruesome, but I can deal with that.
My issue is the characters. McRae is about the only remotely likeable character and, even for him, you have very little background or real sense of who he is. The characters are realistic but largely unpleasant.
On the other hand, the plot, while unrelentingly grim, is thoroughly engrossing and delightfully twisty. There was less humor in this book than in ones in the past. A bit more light to offset the dark would have helped.
McBride is definitely a good, skilled writer. I can't say I enjoyed the book, because of the theme, but I couldn't stop reading it.
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