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 Blind Eye - Stuart MacBride
 Blind Eye - Stuart MacBride ... 2009-04-30 by HarperCollins Publishers LtdNewest Review: ... for me is the characters and the city. The story is gripping - there are always twists and turns, and the Grampian Police ... more ... inevitably end up arresting the wrong guy, often thanks to some lunacy that seems to prevail in the city causing people to make false confessions. In Blind Eye, Logan believes the criminals are Eastern Europeans, and heads off to Warsaw to track down possible suspects and previous victims, and where he is realises Aberdeen is paradise in comparison.
The characters of Blind Eye are mostly recognisable from the previous novels. Logan himself is much the same as ever, weary and long suffering, but still with moments of b...more |
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Blind Eye - Stuart MacBride: Aberdeen...hame sweet hame. With bampots cutting yer eyes oo ... (898 words)
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Several years ago Stuart MacBride appeared on the crime fiction scene with Cold Granite, the first of his novels about DS Logan MacRae. This was an exciting moment - because these novels were set in Aberdeen, my home city. Nobody writes about Aberdeen; it's not pretty and it's not exciting. Yet here was a novel in which the city itself was a main character. The most recent novel, Blind Eye, was released earlier this year. It is the fifth Logan MacRae novel, and the poor DS is still dealing with incompetent colleagues, incompetent informers, and the Aberdonian version of the Mafia. The previous novel, Flesh House, was in danger of alienating many readers with ... Read the complete review
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