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    Dying Light
    Dying Light
    Dying Light
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    Dying Light

    Written by Stuart MacBride

    Narrated by Steve Worsley

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    The second crime thriller in the No.1 bestselling Logan McRae series from Stuart MacBride.

    Even the darkest crimes will come to light…

    ‘Stuart MacBride is a damned fine writer’ Peter James

    Crime never sleeps.

    Down by the docks, in the dead of night, a woman is hunted down and killed. For DS Logan McRae, it’s just the beginning of another nightmare.

    Neither does this killer.

    As the day dawns and the body count rises, Logan realises that this isn’t just an isolated murder. It’s far more disturbing than that.
    A killer is on the loose and wreaking havoc – and Logan is running out of time to stop them.

    And the clock is ticking . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 6, 2017
    ISBN9780008260347
    Author

    Stuart MacBride

    Stuart MacBride is the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae and Ash Henderson novels. His work has won several prizes and in 2015 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Dundee University. Stuart lives in the north-east of Scotland with his wife Fiona, cats Grendel, Onion and Beetroot, and other assorted animals.

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    • 5/5
      There is a lot happening in this 2nd book of the Logan McRae series and Stuart MacBride manages to pull off a dark and gritty tale of crime in Aberdeen Scotland. This book was a page turner up until the last page where a twist awaits the reader and shows us just why MacBride is an award winning author. If you haven't read Stuart MacBride, then I suggest you should pick up his first book in the series, Cold Granite, and enjoy the ride. I am looking forward to the 3rd installment in order to see what Logan and friends are up to.
    • 3/5
      I have read this series it seems since time began. I enjoyed the first book of the series which this is a part of...but as the series progresses some of the characters began to become more than slightly annoying and progressed to nearly unreadable. My trouble with the characters actually started with this one. The story begins with Logan McRae in trouble with his squad commander and going through disciplinary actions. This becomes a common occurrence. He finds himself being sent down to D.I. Steele’s squad, (horrible character by the way) also known throughout Aberdeen law enforcement as the “fuck-up squad.” I had forgotten how much I had always hated the character of D.I. Steele. She has no integrity, the manners of an untrained chimp, talks like a drunken sailor, and smokes like a chimney. She thinks nothing of miss-treating or “using” members of her squad. This is what our super cop, Logan McRae, enters into. D.I. Steele has every intention of using Logan for whatever means is at her disposal to get herself some fame and glory and on to better pastures than the “fuck-up squad.” Logan, on the other hand will do just about whatever it takes to get out of this squad and back into his former squad. The book is filled with flawed characters and bad habits. Then there are the bad guys and the REALLY bad guys. A lot of losers. There is plenty of action going on. You will never figure out what is happening in this story before it ends. I've read it before, and I still couldn't do it. There are fire bombings, prostitutes galore that have seen their better days, unfaithful men by the truck load, drug dealers, murdered girls, and even a dog. The dog is innocent. Well good people...we're not in Mayberry anymore that's for sure.
    • 4/5
      I liked this, although I found it a bit long and repetitive - the IB unit set up so many tents. Then there was the violence- I skipped an entire chapter at one point. There was a lot going on, although I thought the author kept control over all the different threads well. I still don't get Logan's friendship with Colin and I really don't buy Colin and Isobel as a couple.
    • 4/5
      DS McRae has been sent to work with DI Steele of the “fuck-up” squad after a raid gone wrong in which a constable was badly wounded. Everyone is looking at him askance. Jackie, his WPC squeeze is mad at him for not standing up to Steele who never seems to recognize his time off.Steele, who never goes by the book and thinks nothing of destroying evidence if it doesn’t seem to match her prior conception of guilt or innocence.Written with a sardonic and often sarcastic wit, this series has become a favorite and I have bought them all. Not to be read by the squeamish.On to the next one.
    • 4/5
      This book has been sitting on my shelf for quite sometime. I don't know why I strayed away from the series, I really liked the first one. I did though but lately I have been on a Scotland and Ireland mystery binge so I went and grabbed it up. There isn't anything groundbreaking in the story but I didn't care. It checked all the boxes for a fun summer read. Plus, I am a sucker for Scotland mysteries. I will be back to this series much faster than last time.
    • 4/5
      This is the second Logan McRae book I have read I enjoyed both. Maybe as a Scot living abroad it makes me feel a little homesick. Good stories and a likeable policeman. Funnily enough, I didn't really like any of the female characters, not even Logan's girlfriend.
    • 4/5
      funny and grim... DI Steele seems more villainous than the villains, and it is refreshing to read of officers who just want to go home at the end of a shift rather than being brilliant and driven all the time
    • 4/5
      One botched raid, one severely injured uniformed PC and DI Logan MacCrae has gone from Police Hero to a “Screw-Up” squad led by D. I. Roberta Steel. Steel, a somewhat lazy but nonetheless shrewd taskmaster, establishes an unlikely kinship with MacCrae as they investigate the brutal murder of a prostitute. MacCrae and Steel apprehend the likely perpetrator fairly quickly but when the first victim is followed by a second, it appears that a serial killer is at work. At the same time, MacCrae is working off the books with his old squad on an arson that resulted in multiple deaths.

      Dying Light is a solid, twisting police procedural with some short-lived sequences of quite graphic violence. This violence and the pitch perfect gallows humor that the author uses remind us that there is some real substance to the world being written about. The characters are very real. You feel like all of them would be instantly recognizable if you walked into the Aberdeen police station or the local bar.

      What elevates Dying Light above similar books in this genre is the author's willingness to take risks in style, tempo, and characterization. The result is a memorable mystery. This is the second book of what appears to be a very compelling series.
    • 4/5
      Second book in the Logan McRae series, Logan is as usual in trouble. He’d lead a botched raid into a warehouse and a PC has been shot. But that is the least of his worries as he’s assigned to the F*&^& up squad as they find prostitutes who have been beaten then killed.  Oh, and there appears to be a drug war going on in Aberdeen. Gritty, gruesome at times, but with the gallows humor I’ve come to love in his characters, MacBride takes us on a wild ride through the gritty parts of his city.
    • 4/5
      This is the second of what looked like being an excellent series: I loved Cold Granite. Dying Light, however, though it still represents a superior example of the genre, fails to live up to the standard set by its predecessor. This is for various reasons, but especially two: the humour which characterised the first book is either absent, or perhaps just less refreshing; and the narrative is simply too long. The plot concerns at least three separate investigations (naturally coming together by the end), which prove, I think, one too many.

      Also, while I am not so irritated as at least one other reviewer by the portrait here of DS Steel, nevertheless: we get it already! Find another joke.

      Better than most, but not better enough.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this novel because of it's different setting, Aberdeen in Scotland, and not too perfect characters. It all come together so well.

      This is the first book by Stuart MacBride I've read but it certainly won't be the last.
    • 4/5
      In Aberdeen, Scotland, one of the police officers working under Det. Sgt. Logan MacRae is critically wounded in a botched raid. MacRae is assigned to the "Screw-up Squad." He had success in past cases but a chief inspector disliked MacRae and would do anything to ruin MacRae's career.MacRae is placed in Det. Inspector Steel's unit. She's a cigarette smoking, glory stealing woman who must have some information on the chief inspector because she never gets criticized by him.The main case they are working on is to find out who is killing and dismembering prostitutes.There is another supervisor who Logan is helping in return for a chance to be reassigned to a better unit. The main case this unit is working on is about arson fires that end up in death.The novel succeeds with excellent dialogue and humorous banter that is necessary for police authorities to relieve the horror of what they have to deal with, burned bodies and dismembered bodies.I enjoyed reading about MacRae, he's a good protagonist who isn't perfect. He's rambunctious and yet respected by the police officers who work under him. He's a successful investigator and a regular cop who hates the politics that accompany his job.
    • 4/5
      DS Logan McRae has been put in 'the screw up squad' for messing up a raid and getting a constable shot. To get out he must help solve multiple murders, one a string of beaten to death prostitutes and the other house fires where families are trapped inside. All throughout Logan tries to keep his new girlfriend happy while also trying to please his bosses. A good exciting read, I will continue with the series.
    • 4/5
      Not quite as good as the first one. Pretty much more of the same though. It's always grim in Aberdeen even during what the locals laughably call summer. This time there's a mix of beaten dead prostitutes, house fires and a few otehr bits and pieces. DC McRae our hero, isn't feeling particularly heroic because an undescribed raid went wrong, ntohign was found, but one of the officers was shot, and hasn't yet recovered. McRae recieved the tip-off from his old mate Colin the jurno (who's still with McRae's ex), and so isn't feeling that well disposed towards the press either. Fortunately it looks like his current girlfriend still likes him, even though she's got a broken arm.Lots of to-nig and fro-ing plus the internal politics made it a bit hard to follow at times. The grimness was unrelieved by the police banter and grim humour that had enlightened the previous book. Even the appearance of a new deputy didn't make matters much better. The over exagerated DIs continued in their previous vein unfortunetly which didn't add to the believability. However I did like that even set a few months later on there was still continuity with ideas from the previous book, and Mcrae does now have an arch-villain to persue through the series. Whether or not his personal life will keep up, is something that I'm not that bothered by - MacBride doesn't quite manage to make me care.Readable, but not brilliant. If this had been the first I'd not have botherered looking for the sequel, but as it is I'll give the third a try.
    • 4/5
      After an operation gone awry, DS McRae is sent to the "Screw-Up Squad" to work a series of arsons and the murder of a prostitute. The storyline is a little messier than its predecessor, mainly because McRae has to navigate office politics as well as investigating the crimes. McRae is his usual "normal" self, though; it's quite rare to have a fictional detective character who doesn't drink too much, who is in a healthy relationship, and who is clever without having extrasensory insights when it comes to crime solving. McRae is quite entertaining as well, even if he's not straight-out funny, and I'm enjoying the series tremendously. I also appreciate that MacBride (like in Cold Granite) apologizes to the Aberdeen Tourist Board for showing the city in such a poor light. :)
    • 4/5
      The seond in the Logan McRae series and another excellent read: some might argue that the combination of circumstances is unrealistic but it makes for a very satisfying read when all the loose ends come together. MacBride's villains are always really nasty pieces of work, psycho sickies, my favourite kind, and Dying Light is no exception as someone goes around abducting and raping prostitutes, then battering them to death.After a bad tip from his journalist friend Colin Miller [boyfriend of McRae's ex the lovely Dr Isobel McAlister] Logan is no longer the Grampians golden boy and has been relegated to Inspector Steel's 'Stuff Up Squad' . Steel is a vulgar and predatory chain-smoking lesbian who grabs every ounce of glory for herself in an attempt to better her status but is actually slightly less black than she's painted. Only slightly. Steel is working on the prostitute case but Logan is also helping out the sweet-munching Inspector Insch with a particularly nasty arson case. He has moved in with Constable Jackie 'Ballbreaker' Watson and is trying to make their relationship work - a tall order in view of the hours Steel is demanding of him. In addition he is curious about gangsters about whom Miller is, uncharacteristically, writing puff pieces but when he persuades the journalist to tell him more, the consequences are disasterous as the thugs torture Colin and cut off several of his fingers. Despite all the cruelty there are many laugh-out loud moments, especially those regarding the two inspectors, Insch and Steel, both of whom are ruthless in their pursuit of justice despite their often ridiculous behaviour. All in all another grand and gripping book from MacBride but be warned, he is not for the lily-livered or sensitive reader...
    • 5/5
      Hilarious yet simultaneously gruesome! This is the second outing for the embattled Detective Sergeant McRae, one of the stalwarts of Aberdeen C.I.D., who finds himself struggling to investigate what appears to be the work of a serial killer selecting his victims from Aberdeen's prostitute community. Meanwhile one of Edinburgh's hardmen is seeking to establish himself as the leader of the burgeoning drugs underworld in the city, and is not reluctant to resort to extreme violence to bolster his claims. Following a disastrous error-ridden previous operation McRae finds himself assigned to D.I. Steel, a foul-mouthed lesbian with a grotesque sense of humour (probably destined for "national treasure" status!), from whose generally unconventional patronage he is desperate to escape. Though this novel is often hilarious, MacBride never compromises the integrity or plausibility of his plot, and the book was thoroughly gripping throughout.
    • 3/5
      Good story.
    • 5/5
      The second MacBride thriller is even better than the first in my opinion. The characters are developed nicely and Logan Macrae is vying with John Rebus as the top Scottish detective. I particularly like the lesbian Detective Inspector Steel, who barks like a Rottweiler but is Macrae's biggest supporter.
    • 4/5
      Good Plotting - excellent holiday read. Glad I do not live in Aberdeen
    • 4/5
      This is the second in the series about Scottish Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae, and though I struggled a bit with the first book, I sailed through this one with no problems at all.Logan MacRae is a genuinely good, law-abiding cop who at times feels overwhelmed by his job -- as do so many of us out in the real world. He's not tortured in the way American writers portray their "noir" detectives, but simply a man struggling to get done all he feels he should. He screws up plenty, and has the grace to feel guilty when he does. A trait, I might add, that's sorely missing in the characters of many American fictional detectives. They agonize over the state of the world, but MacRae, though deploring the ills human beings inflict on each other, grapples more with the things he can fix -- his relationships with his girlfriend, his bosses, and his friends. It is MacBride's ability to portray his antagonists as human that I most enjoy about this series. MacBride shows a spark of humanity in even the most unregenerate of his villains -- which is a refreshing change of pace from most thrillers. And MacBride also shines in drawing his fairly large cast of characters as real individuals, with both distinctive character quirks and that all important glimmer of goodness. Too many authors allow their secondary characters to stay as cardboard cutouts -- stock caricatures from Hollywood Central, as it were. ("Wanted: one nasty-tempered, roaring boss-type".) MacBride deftly avoids this pitfall.I enjoyed this book a great deal -- so much so that I'm now on the prowl for the third book in the series.Highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      Protagonist: Detective Sergeant Logan MacRaeSetting: present-day Aberdeen, ScotlandSeries: #2First Line: "The street was dark as they entered the boarded-up building: scruffy wee shites in their tatty jeans and hooded tops."If maniacs who wait until houses are filled with people, seal the buildings up tight, set fire to them and hang around to get their jollies is not your cup of tea, pass this book by. It is not for the faint of heart.DS MacRae's star has fallen after a botched raid. Now he finds himself demoted to the "Screw-Up Squad" which is led with a droll lack of enthusiasm by Detective Inspector Steel. Steel decides her best ticket out of the SUS is to attach herself to MacRae like a limpet and have him solve the other serial crime in Aberdeen--prostitutes being beaten to death. Steel drove me nuts, but MacRae finally found out how to deal with her. The contrast between the witty descriptions and dialogue and the brutal crimes being committed on the mean streets of Aberdeen can be as jarring as a slap upside the head with a new brick, but I loved every page.
    • 5/5
      Another winner from Mr. MacBride. No second novel slump here. Just more of the same intricate plotting, wicked dark humor and motley cast of great characters. Please, please keep 'em coming.