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Flesh House

Author: Stuart Macbride
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

26 reviews
Sales Rank: 127

Media: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.7

ISBN: 0007244541
EAN: 9780007244546
ASIN: 0007244541

Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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Bloody marvellous June 30, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I am only half way through this book (having gleefully received a shiny new hardback copy from Amazon 2 days ago) and am loving every line of it. I have read all previous SM books and he is by far my favorite 'writer'. If it wasn't for being in full time employment I would have finished it by now - unputdownable. May Logan, Steel, Insch and Stuart Macbride long continue their production of fabulously gory and witty works! Hurrah!!!

4 out of 5 stars

More Flesh to the MacRae Character June 25, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

The latest in the series focusing on Aberdeen detective DS Logan MacRae. This book adds to our knowledge of the main characters through their involvement of the most gruesome case to date. The detail surrounding cannabalsim in Aberdeen is truly disturbing and will make anyone who read it avoid butchers and the cash and carry for a few weeks after.

4 out of 5 stars

Not for the faint-hearted June 25, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is a good, well-written and interesting book.

However, it is not as good as his previous efforts, mainly because there is too much emphasis on the personalities of two of the main characters. For example, both the inspectors are not as most readers would see as average police officers. The female is outrageously butch and the other a bad-tempered fat slob. It seems very unlikely you could find two such officers in the same police station.

In fact the whole book, at least to me, is over-the-top, albeit an enjoyable and easy read.

4 out of 5 stars

grimly good! June 25, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Another excellent book in the DS Logan series. i just love the characters (Logan, Steele, Insch). The book is really one of two halves; the first is gruesome but has a lot of character development and black humour - however the second half of the book is less amusing and quite harrowing in parts - difficult to read but difficult not to! i would have given it five stars but i do feel that some of the scenarios were rather offputtingly gory - reading it was like watching the tv betweeen your fingers, you had to take a deep breath before you could enter the world that had been conjured up - but a darn good read all the same!

3 out of 5 stars

Camp cannibal caper - not as good as Macbride's other books June 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I've read and really enjoyed Stuart MacBride's other books, but was less enamoured of Flesh House.

The plot centres on the return of a serial killer known as the Flesher, so named because of a predilection for butchering his victims. Macrae's familiar characters of Logan, Insch, Steel and co are racing against time to catch the killer.

I enjoyed the characters, the black humour and the witty and sometimes laugh out loud funny dialogue, but I found the plot of this one a just too far fetched. The killer seems to have super human powers in terms of their ability to kill off tens of victims without being caught. As the bodies started to pile up towards the end of the book it started to remind me of Hannibal, probably the worst book I have ever had the misfortune to read.