Flesh House

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Editorial reviews

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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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-09-23 rating:
Worst in series
This is the worst book in the series, the others all deserve 5 stars but this one lacked the humour and credibility I have become used to from Stuart Macbride. The team are on a twenty year serial killer case but favourite character DI Steel doesn't appear enough and an ending that borders on ridiculous makes this one just an average read. Only worth it to keep your collection complete.

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review by: date: 2008-09-09 rating:
Flesh House

What a disappointment! It was not up to his usual standard. Perhaps his agent was "hurrying him up".

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review by: date: 2008-09-06 rating:
3 great novels ....then this
I loved his first three books, gory and funny at the same time, but this was just streching credibility a little too far. An unbelievable plot from start to finish...what a shame

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review by: Phil Vat date: 2008-08-26 rating:
And then some
A little bit more far fetched than the other three (especially the ending) and not as 'unguessable' but still riveting.

Also compelling was the way DI Insch bursts into Grampian Police folklore with the unfortunate sequence of events that leads to his fantastic demise... But will he Bounce back?

Strange how Logan's alternative love interest, built up in previous books, did not get much of a mention at all here (only in despatches)... Not that I'm in to the soppy stuff (or I wouldn't read Macbride!) but for continuity purposes it would have been nice if he'd seen to her at some point.

Can't wait for 'Blind Eye'... Intrigued already!


review by: date: 2008-08-24 rating:
fUNNY, BUT UNREMITTINGLY GRIM
The Aberdeen Tourist Board must have collective heart failure every time a novel by Stuart Macbride is published. It's always raining, the streets are overrun with deranged serial killers, and the Grampian Police is full of lazy, backbiting incompetents who never miss an opportunity to put the boot into the long suffering hero DS Logan Macrae. Yet 'Flesh House', Macbride's latest, is a very exciting read, a real page turner, and certainly not to be read last thing at night. It's extremely gruesome and there's no let-up as the unremittingly grim events unfold. I just hope the plot and characters lighten up a bit in Macbride's next book which I eagerly await.

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