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Flesh House: The fourth Logan McRae thriller No.1 in Sunday Times bestseller Scottish detective crime series (Book 4) Paperback – December 26, 2012

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The 4th thriller in the Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. Panic grips The Granite City as DS Logan McRae heads up a manhunt for ‘The Flesher’ – one of the UK’s most notorious serial killers.

Panic strikes the Granite City…

When an offshore container turns up at Aberdeen Harbour full of human meat, it kicks off the largest manhunt in the Granite City’s history.

Twenty years ago ‘The Flesher’ was butchering people all over the UK – turning victims into oven-ready joints – until Grampian’s finest put him away. But eleven years later he was out on appeal. Now he’s missing and people are dying again.

When members of the original investigation start to disappear, Detective Sergeant Logan McRae realizes the case might not be as clear cut as everyone thinks…

Twenty years of secrets and lies are being dragged into the light. And the only thing that’s certain is Aberdeen will never be the same again.

Stuart MacBride's book 'The Coffinmaker’s Garden' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 23-08-2021.

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    December 26, 2012
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  7. ISBN-10
    0007419422
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'Stuart MacBride is the most exciting thing to happen to British crime fiction in the last ten years. Flesh House is his fourth book and the best yet … New readers should start here' Northern Echo

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‘Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order’ Mark Billingham

‘Ferocious and funny, this is Tartan Noir at its best’ Val McDermid

‘MacBride is a damned fine writer – no one does dark and gritty like him’ Peter James

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The fourth Logan McRae thriller No.1 in Sunday Times bestseller Scottish detective crime series

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins; 0 edition (December 26, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0007419422
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0007419425
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.4 x 5 x 7.7 inches
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Stuart MacBride is a Scottish writer, most famous for his crime thrillers set in the "Granite City" of Aberdeen and featuring Detective Sergeant Logan McRae. Stuart MacBride was born Feb 27 1969 in Dumbarton, Scotland and raised in Aberdeen. His careers include scrubbing toilets offshore, graphic design, web design and IT/computer programming.

MacBride's publishing deal was secured with the writing of Halfhead, however the publishers were more interested in Cold Granite, concerning DS Logan MacRae. He was signed on a three-book Logan deal, which was further extended to six books. In 2009 he signed another deal, allowing him to write two more Logan books, and two standalone novels, the first of which is due after the sixth installment of the Logan MacRae series.

He now lives in north-east Scotland with his wife, Fiona and their cat Grendel. He is reputed to be a passionate potato grower, but claims to have a "vegetable patch full of weeds".

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carolynfromoz
5.0 out of 5 stars Creepy and more than a bit gruesome, but oh, so good!
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2020
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Well, that was a particularly gruesome read and definitely not for the faint hearted!! Be warned this may put you off eating meat for a while.

Twenty years ago, 'The Flesher' was the nickname given to an Aberdeen serial killer who butchered and ate his victims. A suspect was charged and convicted, but later released on appeal, despite the police believing they had caught the right man. Now the Flesher is back! People have been disappearing and victims are being hacked into choice cuts after death. Yes, this is dark and macabre but somehow didn't totally gross me out. Maybe because the writing is so good, the plot so well thought out and the characters all so well drawn or maybe it's because there is a good dose of humour and laugh out loud moments throughout to defuse the ickyness of the subject matter.

DS Logan McRae is assigned to the case with first DI Insch as his boss and then DI Steel. Overweight and grumpy Insch is just as given to fits of anger as ever. His fights with DI Steel are legendary and his team take bets on when he's going to hit someone, provided he doesn't blow a fuse first. DI Steel provides lighter moments with comments on her malfunctioning underwear, her relationship with her clucky girlfriend and her ability to relegate all work down the line. As before, Logan is the one who makes connections and looks outside the box, as any good detective should, and provides many of the breakthroughs in the case. Adding lightness and humour to the plot is Alec, a BBC reporter attempting to follow the police around with his camera for a documentary on real policing. There are some sad moments too when McBride is not afraid to sacrifice one of his characters for the sake of a good plot. This is proving to be an excellent, if somewhat gritty, series and I can't wait to read the next book.
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Jim Tenuto
4.0 out of 5 stars Grisly noir
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2010
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Stuart MacBride's third installment in the Logan McRae series is one of the darkest, most gruesome, grisly books you will ever read. Without the comic relief delivered in the badinage, especially in the person of DI Roberta Steel, the book would be nearly impossible to read. MacBride is a master of pace, of alternately bringing events to a fever pitch and then throttling them back into the more mundane and boring tasks of policing. While he threatens to plumb his characters more deeply, the effort falls short, a prisoner to plot and action. This is what keeps MacBride a few paces behind Ian Rankin, though, in fairness this is his third book.

The Flesher has returned to Aberdeen. Hannibal Lector has nothing on this literal butcher of couples. Not only does the Flesher kill and dismember the victims, often the remains are part of a repast fed to surviving members or introduced into the food chain. The shrill paranoia of the media also plays a role in this police procedural.

Detective Sergeant McRae remains the favorite boy of two Detective Inspectors, Steel and David Insch, an overweight task master given to consuming massive quantities of sweets. McRae's leaps of logic, dogged police work, inquisitive mind and intuition make his a formidable opponent. McRae is a sergeant, a step or two above a constable, but still closer in age and character to the rank-and-file than he is to the middle management of the force. He is an everyman of sorts, not above pub crawling or hanging with his mates. As in the previous books, he also finds a way to get himself trashed physically along the way, with some of the punishment doled out by his colleagues.

What troubled me as a reader is unfinished business. The lack of resolution in novels, especially series novels, is annoying at best, a cheat at its worst. James Patterson and Nelson DeMille are experts at this, to their detriment. There is a difference in not being able to bring the antagonist to justice because of legal or evidentiary issues, quite another to allow the story to arc to a subsequent book. At 467 pages, I am not looking for a serial.

Like Rankin's Edinburgh, Aberdeen is as much a character as any other. The city supports the offshore oil industry, and even by Scottish standards, the weather is harsh.

While Flesh House is not MacBride's best effort, it is a page-turner.
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Henry E. Dorfman
3.0 out of 5 stars Angus. He's what's for dinner.
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2016
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You’re about to enter a world of cannibalism, seasoned with a dash of pedophilia. Almost too much for me but that may be a cultural sensitivity. After all, the Scots eat haggis so it would take something of much greater magnitude to raise an eyebrow. And, this takes cannibalism up a gear.
Compared to the previous books in the series, this one picks up the pace a little and focuses more on the main plot than the side issues. It still suffers from undeveloped characters defined only by a few of their quirks, ad nauseam. And, the principal antagonist doesn’t come on stage until late in the book, adding a touch of a pulling-the-rabbit-out-of-the-hat conclusion.

But, the decent pace of the action makes this a more readable book than previous offerings. If, you can tolerate the gore.
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Moira Cameron
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
Reviewed in Canada on July 15, 2023
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Have recently discovered this author and this series and as a result of this book have downloaded all the rest of the series. Highly recommend this author and this series...caught my attention from beginning to end.
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Matt
5.0 out of 5 stars If you like this kind of thing...
Reviewed in Germany on August 10, 2021
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Superb story, great characters and very funny in parts. This series has really grown no me. It's pretty twisted in parts though, so be warned!
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Alan G. Hider
5.0 out of 5 stars A book unlike any I've read before
Reviewed in Australia on August 17, 2023
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This tale with considerable dark humour is not for the faint hearted reader. Be prepared for blood and Gore and abundant death. But also an ingenious and convoluted plot with a weird ending.
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Eder Mack
5.0 out of 5 stars A page turner!
Reviewed in Spain on June 4, 2018
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Another fine case investigated by detective Logan Macrae. A page turner, I could not stop reading and finished it in two days. Great dark humour throughout the whole book.

10/10 would recommend!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Reçu en forme de CD par Book Depository.. Livre en format papier pas disponible.
Reviewed in France on November 5, 2016
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Je n'ai donc pas reçu le livre et n'ai pas écouté le CD. Je serai par contre intéressé de recevoir le livre en format papier (broché).
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