Broken Skin - Stuart MacBride

Reading should be a pleasure and, to be quite frank, it don't get much better than this. 'Broken Skin' is the third title in Macbrides crime series featuring DS Logan McRae and it doesn't disappoint one bit - if anything his tales are becoming darker with every book. It's raining in Aberdeen (seemingly constantly) and someone is out on the streets torturing women and McRae girlfriend is working undercover as bait. They have a suspect: Aberdeens star striker but he has an alibi covering himself for every attack. In the end they are forced to release him but Logan thinks they are making a big mistake, as does PC watson who looks like she'll stop at nothing to nail him. ...  Read the complete review

This is the second of Stuart Macbride's books Ive read the first being his debut Cold Granite. As with Cold Granite this features DS Logan McRae, his girlfriend PC Jackie Watson and the other assorted police around the station. They are in the midst of investigating a series of increasingly violent rapes, after catching what they think is the rapist they discover that while he was caught by the entrapment process they have employed their suspect is not only a well known local footballer, but has alibis for all the rapes and even worse his lawyer is the universally hated Sandy Moir-Farquharson. The other case being handled is the attempts to find out the ...  Read the complete review