Dark Blood (Logan McRae, Book 6)

Stuart MacBride

May 2010 · Logan McRae Book 6 · Sold by HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

The sixth gripping thriller in the No.1 bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride.

Scotland’s finest see first-hand how starting again can be murder...

‘MacBride is a damned fine writer’ Peter James

Everyone deserves a second chance...

Richard Knox has done his time and seen the error of his ways. He wants to leave his dark past behind, so why shouldn’t he be allowed to live wherever he wants?

Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn’t thrilled about having to help a violent rapist settle into Aberdeen. Even worse, he’s stuck with the man who put Knox behind bars, DSI Danby, supposedly to ‘keep an eye on things’.

Only things are about to go very, very wrong.

Edinburgh gangster Malk the Knife wants a slice of Aberdeen’s latest development boom. Local crime lord Wee Hamish Mowat has ominous plans for Logan’s future. And Knox’s past isn’t finished with him yet...

Ratings and reviews

The beginning bummed me out with seeing how Logans character has gone down hill. It picked up a ways in , but definitely no strong connection to the characters anymore, and there's way too many names and people getting brought into it who play no major part do it gets a bit confusing.

The 6th or maybe 7th in the DS Logan McCrae series. The books are best read in order to fully appreciate the development of the characters and the occasional references to past events. That said, each novel stands up on its own as an imaginatively conceived thriller with multiple plot strands. This outing for the flawed DS sees him battling his personal demons - alcohol and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - as well as the bad guys including a creepy sex offender. A great read full of tension and wit.

Not mcbrides best. If you follow the book series in order you still have to read it to keep up with the Steel and McRea saga.

About the author

Stuart MacBride is the No.1 bestselling author of the DS Logan McRae series. His novels have won him the CWA Dagger in the Library, the Barry Award for Best Debut Novel, and Best Breakthrough Author at the ITV3 crime thriller awards. Stuart’s other works include Halfhead, a near-future thriller, Sawbones, a novella aimed at adult emergent readers, and several short stories. He lives in the north-east of Scotland with his wife, Fiona, and cat, Grendel.