Tangled Web UK Review June 2008
Flesh House by
Stuart MacBride
hbk out June 08
Published by HarperCollins
at £12.99
The title gives a fair steer as to what you’re going to find between the covers. MacBride has penned a gory thriller with human flesh and body parts by the truck full - prime cuts which have got into the meat supply. The Flesher - a serial killer who butchered his victims - has served time, been released and is now missing. Officers originally involved in securing his conviction are being targeted. And off-shore from Aberdeen a container is found to be stuffed with human joints. DS Logan McRae is on the case, trying to avoid the machinations of his bosses and cope with the inadequacies of his deeply flawed colleagues, and with the appaling Aberdonian weather. Whilst such fare may not be to everyone’s taste MacBride manages to combine the darkest of situations with the workaday foibles of his cops (and their attempts to maintain some sanity in a world gone barmy) and to make the whole shebang both very funny and suspenseful.
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder)
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