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A nation that welcomes everyone: aye, even the English … What I don’t want is some sort of apartheid s****hole full of racist, moronic, ethnic cleansing w*** spasms like you. As there is a cloud of suspicion over the lead detective DI King, Logan is attached to the investigation. DI Frank King has been assigned to lead the investigation, and Inspector Logan McCrae, from Professional Standards (back at work after being stabbed in a previous book), has been assigned to keep an eye on DI King. You'll get to know all (the good and the bad) about the team in Professional Standards and you'll understand how they interact with each other.
His first case was to be a simple one - just to ease him back into work - but it turned out to be anything but.
It’s pretty dark and extremely gruesome, but the general atmosphere of humour stops it from ever becoming grim. But I want a Scotland of the Enlightenment; a nation of fairness and equality; a nation that cares about the smallest, weakest person living here every bit as much as the biggest, richest one. My husband is Scottish by birth and we'd always thought that if Scotland did achieve independence we might well move there in the hope that we would, at some point in the not-too-distant future, become European citizens again. We all know the deviousness that can lie at the heart of a beardy crime writing genius from Scotland. The appalling DI Steel is still outrageously rude and foul-mouthed but she does at least try to stay within the rules most of the time now.
It's a big book - just about 450 pages if you're reading it and just shy of fourteen hours if you're listening - and Stuart MacBride allows himself full rein. Louise Fairbairn, writing in " The Scotsman", said "After last year’s superlative The Blood Road, I wondered what Stuart MacBride was going to do next. I love the reoccurring characters of Logan, Steel, Tufty and Rennie, and the camaraderie between them makes me laugh out loud the entire way through and brings beings a lightness to what otherwise are incredibly grim tales. This may be the 12th addition to the DI Logan McRae series by Stuart MacBride set in Aberdeen, but I still anticipate the newest book with an eagerness and anticipation that places me amongst the community of readers that are die hard fans of the series. His new boss at Professional Standards, the crocheting Superintendent Julie Bevan, is easing him into work to support DI Frank King, whose past a journalist is planning to expose, and it is Logan's job to help Police Scotland manage this disastrous state of affairs.MacBride acknowledged that the novel had an obvious theme; that of Scotland's Independence and the fight between the Nationalists and the Unionists. It’s hard to explain but there’s a special kind of Stuart MacBride magic that seemed to be lacking this time around.
There is a lot of good old fashioned police work as well as interesting forensic details and an entertaining young policeman who knows his way around computers.Sometimes it can be far fetched especially with how the characters talk to each other but for me it’s a break from the usual police procedural and the crimes and plots at the centre are very well developed. A year after being stabbed, McRae is welcomed back to Professional Standards with a case that could be a career killer. Logan McRae is tasked with keeping an eye on the investigating Detective King and this puts him smack-bang in the middle of it all. It's a twister, that's helped somewhat by a tiny mistake on the part of one of the suspects, not helped by the less than tiny mistake by Steel and King in the pursuit of same suspect, and definitely not helped by the media attention, and the ever-hanging threat that one of the less than favoured journalists is happy to dump the news about King's past right smack bang in the middle of an investigation that's struggling for traction.
An engrossing read from a master storyteller who is much more than just blood and guts with some laughs. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. First target is Nicholas Wilson – a constitutional scholar, who is loathed by even his closest associates. And, to top it all Logan is the one set to help out the investigation because the powers to be needs a scapegoat. Social media goes mental, there’s a war brewing between between factions for and against Scottish Nationalism and the media is having a field day.The book gets going in the second half and does become more exciting but the plot becomes increasingly far-fetched. I would like to thank both Net Galley and Harper Collins for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. If you're offended by coarse language, anti-English statements and silliness in public office it's probably not the book for you. I would like to thank Netgalley and HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction for an advance copy of All That’s Dead, the twelfth novel to feature DI Logan MacRae of Police Scotland. As Logan's from Professional Standards the decision is made that he will 'assist' the Inspector, but in reality, keep an eye on him.
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