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Source ISBN: 9780007342570
Ebook Edition © APRIL 2009 ISBN: 9780007322640
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‘Hard-hitting prose with a bone-dry humour and characters you can genuinely believe in, Stuart MacBride’s Logan McRae series of novels are a real treat’
SIMON KERNICK
‘Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order by a writer whose dark star is most definitely on the rise’
MARK BILLINGHAM
‘If you’re looking for taut narrative, gut-churning incident, strong characterisation, all shot through with savagely dark humour, then look no further’
REGINALD HILL
‘Ferocious and funny’
VAL MCDERMID
‘Another brilliant, riveting police procedural. I’m green with envy!’
R D WINGFIELD, author of A Touch of Frost
‘The novel rattles along like a bolting horse and the dialogue crackles like a firework display … DI Steel should be declared a national treasure’
ANDREW TAYLOR, Spectator
‘Makes Ian Rankin’s noir seem blanc’
Observer
‘Cracking dialogue … a standout crime novel’
Metro
‘Grim, gritty and great fun’
Daily Sport
‘Riveting and gruesome’
Daily Telegraph
‘Stuart MacBride goes straight for the jugular with a tight, thrilling novel’
Glasgow Herald
‘A gritty, roller-coaster, in-your-face thriller’
Aberdeen Press and Journal
‘A cracking new writer on the crime scene who hooks you from the first page and never lets you go. The action is ferocious and the pace unrelenting’
Northern Echo
‘This is Ian Rankin on speed … the humour is black, the violence is apalling, the language is, well, realistic, the entertainment is unflagging. I hunger for the earlier novels’
Adelaide Review
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